The Problem-Workers and the Community

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The Problem-Workers and the Community

How many injuries among the “Under the Cardboard Ceiling” workers (the population least able to absorb medical costs or lost work days because of injury) might be prevented because they could protect themselves if they had immediate access to 3rd party, unbiased (ranked) Chemical Hazard information about the chemicals they are handling?

Or sadly, in some locations, the “At the Cardboard and Tin Shack Fenceline” community, as was the case In Bhopal, India in 1984.

This disaster, followed shortly by a less serious but closer to home release in Institute, WV resulted in the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act EPCRA and subsequent regulations associated with it.

A good start, but we’re in a technologically much more advance era now.

How can we use those wonderful technology tools to make the world safer for everyone?

Source: AFP News Agency on 30th anniversary of Bhopal disaster

And how many hours of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) professionals’ time might be freed up for more value added activities if the key data and hazard information for chemicals was posted up in the cloud when the chemical was manufactured, from where it could be easily retrieved for subsequent reuse by each member of the supply chain without the need for additional work to obtain it?

More later, here’s to better Visual Chemical Safety and a Connected Chemical Supply Chain