Rillea Technologies is very excited to announce the release of SDS RiskAssist™ V3.0! New features available in V3.0 include the following: Auto-tags – administrators can now develop custom directives that can be assigned to chemicals, based on hazards, at the click of a mouse. This enables clients to get valuable and consistent chemical handling directives […]
Chemical Risk Management
Why RilleaTech Does Not Offer Ongoing SDS Updates!
During the last few months of “Trade Show Season”, a common question we were asked was “Once my safety data sheets are updated will you monitor them and replace them with new SDSs on an ongoing basis?” The answer is No and here is why: You Know What You Use You Can Do It Cheaper […]
Quinte West Making Strides in Reducing Chemical Use
The City of Quinte West is now ahead of the curve in terms of dealing with chemicals in the workplace thanks to software developed by Belleville-based Rillea Technologies Inc. Lisa and Rob Hallsworth of Rillea, chemical engineers with more than 60 years of experience in high risk chemical manufacturing, appeared before Quinte West council Monday […]
Digital Technology and Chemical Risk Management
Consider a process of chemical risk management that follows a basic framework, uses digital technology and puts clear simple results at your fingertips. The ACT Framework Access to information is what most organizations are doing with WHMIS today. Education helps workers understand the symbols, hazards and signal words used within WHMIS along with what should […]
Simplify Chemical Risk Management
To overcome the obstacles to good chemical risk management we need to consider some different ideas on how we look at the information in WHMIS. Look at Hazards Not Products While there are millions of chemical products available in the market, there are only seventy-nine different hazards in the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and […]
Obstacles to Chemical Risk Management
Implementing an effective chemical management system is difficult. Over a 3-year period we spoke with hundreds of people about workplace chemicals and identified 4 obstacles to improving chemical safety. The Bystander Effect The bystander effect says that in a group setting which calls for action to address a problem most of us will assume that […]