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 […]
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 […]
Is Chemical Risk Management Important?
Workplace chemicals pose a risk to people. If they did not, there would be no need to focus on Chemical Risk Management and current WHMIS related activities would be sufficient to maintain a safe and healthy work place. There are three reasons why organizations need to think about more than WHMIS compliance. An Endless Selection […]
Chemical Risk Management – It’s More Than WHMIS
I was very fortunate to spend 22 years working in leadership roles with ExxonMobil where I learned a business can improve its overall performance by improving its safety performance. Key Concepts to Improve Safety Performance: Understand people’s needs. This is at the heart of an effective safety program. Pay attention to safety through metrics, observations […]
Do You Want Your Employees to Read the SDS?
Providers of online WHMIS education claim that their program will help employees to: “recognize hazardous materials, gather additional hazard information, and learn how to safely store, use and handle these items” They do it by teaching people to read the Safety Data Sheets (SDSs). For a small amount of money and an hour of time […]