From:
Jeffrey Lewin <jclewin**At_Symbol_Here**MTU.EDU>
Subject:
Re: [DCHAS-L] Question about SDS access on other campuses
Date:
Mar 19, 2025 12:44 UTC
Reply-To:
ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
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<CAEwQnqi3PJS4mp12Cfd7WXZ8nj7H7m_DonxWq434nJ0cmxfpZA**At_Symbol_Here**mail.gmail.com>
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<6dee4a15e9774ce4877543c41366bed7**At_Symbol_Here**jbu.edu>
- How do you control access to your SDS database? Can the public search your SDS database? We use chemmanagement.ehs.com (formally MSDSonline/VelocityEHS). Anyone with Michigan Tech login credentials can access the SDS eBinder system. That includes Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students. The general public does NOT have access. There is an option for giving the Fire Department direct access, but we've not activated it. Since our Public Safety and Police Service officers get dispatched to all fires and are university employees they can access the eBinder system.
- How do you give access to SDS of chemicals in a particular room/lab to your contractors? While SDSs are organized by location in the eBinder, all SDSs are available to anyone logging into the system. I'm not sure how you define "contractor" but anyone working in a university laboratory is given university login credentials.
- If you use QR codes for SDS in a lab, who has access to it? We post QR codes at the bottom of all laboratory Emergency Response Posters. Anyone can access the QR code, but it goes to the university credential login screen. Same for SDS links found on most university web pages as well as the direct link www.mtu.edu/sds
Note that access to update SDSs for a particular location in an eBinder are controlled under a different login. For that login we can limit the locations seen by that individual.
Jeff
Hello!
We are updating our digital SDSs on our campus and would like to know how you handle access.
- How do you control access to your SDS database? Can
the public search your SDS database?
- How do you give access to SDS of chemicals in a particular room/lab to your contractors?
- If you use QR codes for SDS in a lab, who has access to it?
Thanks for your help!
Tricia Hahn
Tricia Hahn | Chemical
Hygiene Officer
Instructor of Chemistry | Chemistry
Lab Manager
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Environmental Health and Safety
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