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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Behold! the new and improved Safety Demystifier
Date: Oct 3, 2025 01:24 UTC
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1. Runs completely in your browser as JavaScript. No server interaction required.2. It’s FAST. I ran MIT’s Chemical Hygiene plan through it and it took about 2 seconds.3. The anchor text of the inserted link (e.g. the blue underlined part you click on) will now match the case of the original text.4. *Much* better about respecting word boundaries. It won't, for example, replace the 'air' in 'stairwell', but it will in 'fresh air'.5. No practical limit on the length of the document it can process.6. *Fantastic* performance and experience on mobile devices.7. It now autodetects whether you pasted HTML or text. And it respects existing anchor links without disrupting them.8. Replaced the old pages with a sample MSDS and it’s output with a simpler link that puts sample input into the Demystify box so the user can see it in action instantly.9. Three new ways to save your output. You can save the output HTML to the clipboard (and it gives you audio and visual feedback when you do that), You can save the output as an HTML file. And you can now save as PDF and the links in the output file will be live clickable links (for PDF’s made with most browsers, anyway).10. This one is so cool - it now defaults to link to only the first occurrence of a term in a given chunk of text (paragraph or list item). So if “chemical” appears five times in a paragraph, only the first one will be a link. it makes the output much more readable without a ton of superfluous duplicate links.11. But sometimes you may want all those occurrences to be links, so now there is a Verbose mode toggle. You can link to every term every time. And you can toggle between the two versions in real time. Give that a try with the trial text and watch as extra links appear and disappear as you toggle Verbose on and off.12. A Neaten HTML feature which is on by default. Legacy documents often contain a surprising amount of pointless white space that make editing or reading the HTML a bear. This option strips all those, puts spaces between paragraphs, and indents list items for easy readability in the HTML source. But if you want to keep your original formatting, simply toggle it off.13. The instructions are now in a collapsible subsection. So you can see them if you need them and hide them if you don’t. This makes the page much more readable, particularly on mobile devices.
On Sep 18, 2025, at 5:12 PM, Info <info**At_Symbol_Here**ilpi.com> wrote: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.--- For more information about the DCHAS-L e-mail list, contact the Divisional membership chair at membership**At_Symbol_Here**dchas.orgSo 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.The Demonstration Safety page is keeping vigil for more incidents: https://www.ilpi.com/safety/demosafety.htmlDCHAS 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 TorekiLabLocks™ - The first device that can lock out standard laboratory ball valves: https://www.safetyemporium.com/07400US-Made NIOSH and FDA-approved N95 respirators: https://www.safetyemporium.com/safety-items/respirators/Safety Emporium - Laboratory and Safety Supplies
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