The information and tools in the suite of ChemWatch products are uniquely suited to many industry groups and we have a broad customer base in many specialized areas. Below is a description of some of these specialized industry applications.
Organizations with International Sites – Any organization with international locations is challenged with a much wider range of compliance requirements. In addition to other regulations, foreign sites often require MSDSs and labels in their local language and format.
Chemwatch documents can be easily customized to show the regulations, languages and formats of a particular country or region. The Chemwatch Collection of supplier sheets includes a spectrum of international documents to feed local needs. Because of these tools and information, organizations with multi-lingual needs or with global sites will find a unique and useful tool for their hazcom, safety and compliance needs.
Laboratories Laboratories and research facilities, both large and small, are challenged with the management of a large base of chemicals, mostly pure substances, as well as common mixtures such as cleaning supplies. Managing the MSDSs and other documents for hazard communication is a serious time and cost expenditure for even the smallest lab. In addition, research facilities often need chemical information listing properties and hazards beyond that needed for just safety, response and hazard communication.
With more than 40,000 pure substances and 130,000 other common laboratory products, ChemWatch provides the largest database of MSDSs and chemical information useful to laboratories. In addition, Chemwatch provides other laboratory required documents such as labels, physical and toxicological property summaries and even chemical structure searching and chemical tracking. Chemwatch also links directly to North America’s premier chemical inventory tracking software packages from Vertere and ChemSW.
Universities/Colleges/Community Colleges– Campus chemical safety presents a unique challenge to Safety Managers. A very large number of research materials presenting a broad range of hazards are added to cleaning suppliers, food materials and even wastes. An academic environment presents educational levels from the barely literate to the post graduate and the safety information has to reach all of them. In addition, a chemical safety program must address a population where English is often the second language. Finally, A campus inventory stores chemicals throughout several locations and a safety manager must be able to track them all.
Chemwatch is a one-stop MSDS repository for the University and Laboratory containing just about everything required on a large or small campus. Chemwatch documents are written especially for the varied educational levels and include the range of information necessary for all users. Chemwatch is multilingual and provides basic and advanced tools for tracking chemicals. It is the ideal chemical information tools for colleges and universities in North America and abroad.
Emergency Responders (Fire/Hazmat/EMT)– From large National Emergency Response Teams to small, municipality fire departments, the unknown future incident is what worries responders the most. They are looking for first response information on any chemical that could harm the community they are protecting. They need to find it quickly from a moving vehicle to a standalone command center. Responders want to know how a chemical can hurt you and how to begin treatment if it does. They want easily readable text with intuitive searching and colors and graphics that bring home the information quickly.
Chemwatch was first developed more than 20 years ago for first response and worker safety and has been adding pertinent chemicals to its system quarterly since then. It includes commonly transported chemicals and materials to chemical warfare agents, viruses and explosives and continues to add information on any and all dangerous chemicals. Chemwatch can help you minimize the risk of the unknown with an extensive, informative and easily searched database. Chemwatch provides documents offering hard to obtain glove recommendations, respirators, odor safety factors, isolation distances and full ERG, CHRIS and other response manuals. Chemwatch is a command center information database that is in multiple languages and has been serving responders worldwide for two decades.
Chemical, Biotech, Pharmaceutical and Hospitals – All these types of organizations have to serve the safety needs of the laboratory researcher to the production floor and the information they require is often outside the scope of standard research materials. New as well as established drugs, radioactives and even testing kits require MSDSs, labels and safety sheets. In many pharma and biotech organizations the regulatory agencies require summary sheets on each hazardous material in the local language. Further, biotech and pharma often require the development of safety documents on intermediate or proprietary materials that are sent to other sites.
Chemwatch has been writing MSDSs for drugs, viruses, intermediates and radioactives to serve this unique community since our inception. The database we maintain and update is the largest in the world and we add to it to serve our clients every quarter. Many of these organizations have several large and small laboratories and these fall into our targeted client base and we offer specially developed products and services for them.
Other industries groups that have found broad application with Chemwatch products and services include Food and Flavorings, Transportation, Petroleum, Mining, and utilities.
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