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Re: [DCHAS-L] SDS question
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Oct 11, 2022 14:25 UTC
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If your database is backed up, and you have at least one computer w/ a battery backup, you should be able to “work offline” in the event you have no internet connection and access what is in your most recent backup. This is a method I have used.
Also, providing local responders access to your database, can be tricky depending on your service, is another way to make sure there is access.
Rachel Harrington, MPH
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU> on behalf of Burgmeier, Sally <sallyburgmeier**At_Symbol_Here**AUGUSTANA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 8:24:37 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] SDS question
Question about a backup system for SDS in the event of power loss. Our campus has its primary mode for SDS to be that the SDS are available online via a database on a campus server that is backed up by a generator in the event of
power loss to the campus. However, if power is lost to the campus, the campus computers and wifi will be down in the work areas. Our employees could still access the campus SDS database using their personal mobile phones using cellular data. Is
this backup method acceptable to OSHA?
We would like to stop maintaining the hard copies of SDS as we are currently doing as our backup method. If personal phones are not acceptable, is there some other way to satisfy the backup availability requirements in the event
of power loss? For example, if we have an emergency command center on or near campus that has power and internet, but that command center is not in the employee's immediate workplace area, is that still sufficient backup if the SDS can be printed out from
our database in the command center?
Thank you for any information,
Sally Burgmeier
Augustana College
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