What’s the lowest tech high tech we can use for the task? Or the highest tech low tech?

If the 848 EDI M)aterial Safety Data Sheet M)SDS transaction set was too daunting, how about 3 flat text files?

More inside…

Did you know there’s a standard for the structured exchange of (Material) Safety Data Sheet information (the name tells you how old the standard is)

Read all about it here!

Then think about how you could feed that data into your current workflows so it could conduct quality checks on itself, respond to rules you set up, and other things.

In short, it could reduce your workload!

A happy thought for the start of your Labor Day Weekend!

What are the steps from the general information on a Safety Data Sheet SDS to usable information for a specific worker in a specific job?

That’s the process that takes knowledge and turns it into value.

Shake well with evaluation of the SDS information by a knowledgeable individual, massage to the correct format, and presto bingo! Ready to use

In what order do you review a Safety Data Sheet SDS? And why?

With the specific objective of teaching a non-technical worker how to use this chemical safely.

Here we’ll use bleach as an example, it’s a chemical that a lot of us are using these days (and some food service establishments use instead of quaternary amine disinfectants since it kills norovirus)

We’ll also point out some questions and limitations around the information on the SDS.

In a later blog post we’ll talk about potential ways to automate the review to capture these “gotchas” so you can respond to them proactively

Would love to hear the order you review SDS’s and why!

What does this add to our “picture” from the previous blog post?

As we start to have a picture we can start to ask “which is better this or this?”

Any education experts ready to study this?

Reach out to me, would love to hear from you…

What am I trying to say?

Over the next couple of posts I’ll work through some examples of Visual Chemical Safety from the CSHEEMA Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association Annual Conference July 9-13, 2022

Hope you’ll come along for the journey…

If we’re not specific about requirements, the end product might not look like what we wanted…

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“Don’t eat it, don’t drink it, don’t unnecessarily expose yourself to it” is how one industrial hygienist put it.

This post is around what’s the same and how we train it. I’ll do another post on highlighting what’s different.

The Potential of Visual Chemical Safety: What Might Visual Chemical Safety Look Like?

And why do we need it?

Think "Infographic for chemical safety“

You have a worker who doesn’t speak English as a primary language. Or doesn't read well. Or has cognitive or learning challenges.

These are frequently the people actually doing the work that exposes them to the chemicals at  your facility.

How can you train them adequately and reduce the time and effort necessary to do so?

Visual Chemical Safety has that potential.

 We're now used to getting lots of visual information from infographics.

How might we apply that to chemical safety?

Speaking of Visual Chemical Safety, how about Visual Chemical Safety for Emergency Responders?

You need to figure out what are the right tools for the job when you’re a “below the cardboard ceiling” worker

Visio was used to generate this simple diagram of hazards directly from the Safety Data Sheet SDS information

The early early days