Just a heads up that we were in the midst of converting our various SDS/safety resources, DCHAS archives and more to a new unified interface w/ breadcrumbs, more modern design, more mobile friendly, https secure, more reliable version to run in the cloud when our ancient, creaky, deprecated web server that we hosted in-office died a sudden and tragic death after a 15+ year battle with obsolence over the weekend.
So we pushed out this update a bit before it was ready for prime time, but it’s mostly good. Other than some minor cosmetic issues and web pages that need some work deep in our annotated version of OSHA interpretations on the HazCom standard, most everything works. The notable exceptions on that for the moment are that search is not working yet and the software magic behind the MS-Demystifier has to be recoded. We hope to resolve most all of this by the end of the month.
The SDS Hyperglossary section got a good once-over on maintaining and checking the thousands of links it contains, as did other sections:
https://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/index.html All told, we have somewhere around 800 pages on HazCom.
We did a slight reorg and changed the main SDS landing page, putting the list of sites to look for SDS’s on the Internet on its own dedicated page.
DCHAS Archives:
https://www.ilpi.com/dchas/index.html - the new and improved search that’s coming will make it easier to find pertinent results. And once this migration is done I can look into bringing the archive up to date. At the moment there are over 17,000 posts in that section. Long-term plans are to include an FAQ or may just some AI summaries of common questions. We also have to automate a way of going in and deactivating the dead links in the Archives. Link rot is the bane of a large collections like this.
We’ll be adding some more recent OSHA HazCom interpretations and changes once everything is all settled, as well. Another nice outcome is that we’ll be more flexible to adding new external resource links to our pages based on information discussed on DCHAS-L as we’re not trying to spread ourselves across two versions anymore.
Thanks for all for your support and encouragement in building this trove of resources over the years.
Best wishes,
Rob Toreki
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