Extended safety data sheets

SGS has years of expertise in elaborating SDS in all European languages. Under REACH the SDS is set to become even more important as a means of communication throughout the supply chain. SGS has closely monitored the changes to the SDS under REACH.

On top, GHS will also be implemented in Europe in the future. Our unparalleled expertise in human and environmental safety will help you in classifying the products in the correct category.

SGS offers:

• Elaboration of SDS
• In many different formats (.html, .PDF, .doc…)
• Management of the SDS documents
• Make them available, according to your wishes
• With appropriate authorization
• Via the internet, for worldwide instantaneous access
• In all languages of your choice
• With very easy to use search possibility
• For e.g. commercial names and chemical names
• But also company specific codes…

For the elaboration of SDS, a combination is needed of specialized product information, with skilled experts, and with dedicated software systems. SGS operates different software-tools that are interfaced to a library of thousands of sentences in dozens of languages, in order to allow the generation of SDS in a multitude of languages. As you can notice, the elaboration of SDS is a real "HIGH TECH" business, with redundant, secure, and intelligent databases and software.

The structured management of SDS has never been very simple. On the contrary, it has rather driven people to despair.

A truly simple alternative consists of storing the SDS on a secure server. Anyone (whom you share the password with), from anywhere, at anytime, can consult the latest version of the SDS, just with their usual browser and via an uttermost user-friendly search screen. The management of SDS on such servers is very "LOW COST", and the consulting of the SDS over the internet is even free of charge.