Newsletter_2007_1

1 2007 Chemwatch Newsletter Quarterly CD Release Head Office 70 Bambra Road Caulfield North Victoria 3161 Australia Telephone: (+61 3) 9572 4700 Fax: (+61 3) 9572 4777 chemwatch@chemwatch.net www.chemwatch.net Chemwatch 2007 Issue 1 Dear Chemwatch user, please find enclosed the newest release of the Chemwatch Package CD 2007/1 New Developments New developments Chemgold II Company Logos on Labels Company Logos are available on a selection of label templates. These labels can be found in the Template Gallery by selecting the LABEL icon on your hit list. Logos can be uploaded into the program via the Setup screen. Select the Blue Setup Icon (looks like a spanner) from the top right hand side of the screen. A window will appear. Select LOGO SETTINGS and then select the “Browse” button alongside the “Upload Logo” caption. New Report Generator Fields The Report Generator module inside the Manifest allows the user to export store and material data in a number of different text delimited formats, including Excel files. Each release, extra fields are added to the Report Generator, so keep a look out inside each category for changes. In this release we have expanded the list of available output languages, and have added new fields in both the Safety and Properties sections. Mini MSDS Mouse Over Captions The Health Hazard and Safe Storage sections of the Mini MSDS now contain rollover mouse captions. They explain the meaning of the various symbols on the report. Just move your mouse over the symbol in question and relevant explanations will appear! DO WE HAVE ALL YOUR PRODUCTS ON THE CHEMWATCH SYSTEM??? To provide you with the most up to date and efficient management of your chemicals - thus ensuring you meet your legal obligations - you need to make sure you have provided us with a complete list of all your products, together with any new ones which need to be added to the data base. Please make sure that you have sent us a listing of all your chemicals for registration, and we will then ensure that any changes are noted and your MSDS are kept up to date. Help us to help you meet your legal requirements! If you have any queries, please contact our Customer Relations Manager Peta Reeve on (03) 9572 4700 or email to: peta@chemwatch.net Galleria Chemica Galleria Chemica’s colossal database continues to grow as the Galleria application is consistently transformed to provide a more intuitive, and easier tool to manage your chemical inventory. From regulatory compliance to risk assessment and general chemicals management, Galleria Chemica has all of the answers. We are also very pleased to announce the addition of the GCAE (Galleria Chemica Alerts Engine) to all of our currently registered clients. On a weekly basis, GCAE will scan the database looking for additions, omissions, and general changes to chemical regulatory data. The culmination of this scan produces a report for each of our clients, outlining the products on their register that are affected by these changes. Not only does Chemwatch provide all the chemical information you need, but through GCAE we have a powerful tool in which to provide a complete managed service. Galleria Chemica’s main application is constantly being refined in order to make using it even easier than before. New country filters provide a simplistic way of filtering data based on the jurisdiction of laws. We have also added a powerful second search function with Galleria which scans millions of chemical synonyms, trade names and parts numbers to find the chemical you want. Most importantly all of this is done in a jiffy with the use on newer more powerful indexing and search algorithms. What’s new in author(IT)e? Our dedicated team have been working feverishly since our last newsletter to embellish our authoring software and make the changes that our users have requested. Improvements made include: Version Number Disclosure Notification European (Annex 1) Risk Codes Addition of Ingredient by Chemwatch Number Domestic Use Units of Measurement Version Number All materials saved will now display a Version Number. This number will be incremented by 1 each time the material is saved over the period of a week – from Monday to Sunday. For example, if Material X is created on Tuesday but then it is edited 3 times in the next 2 days, the Version Number will remain at ‘Version 1’. If the same material is edited a further 2 times the following Monday, the Version Number will be incremented to ‘Version 2’. The Version Number appears at the top of the User Interface – circled in red. Disclosure Notification When utilizing either of the Disclosure options on the Ingredients page – Minimum or Limited – the activation of each is displayed on the MSDS Expert page as either ‘Lim. Disc.’ or ‘Min. Disc.’ European (Annex 1) Risk Codes Any relevant Risk Codes from the European Annex 1 list, will appear in their own separate display on the Risks page, labelled ‘EC’. They will also be incorporated into the overall list of Generated Risks on the same page – these will appear in green coloured text. Chemwatch 2007 Issue 1 New Developments cont. What’s new in author(IT)e? cont. Addition of Ingredient by Chemwatch Number It is now possible to enter ingredients by searching for them by Chemwatch Number. On the Ingredients page, when you begin typing in the name, a search screen appears with the added option of a ‘CW Search’. Clicking on this opens an additional search window in which the user can enter a known CW Number, and add this to the Ingredients in the usual manner. The following are some of the new database additions to Galleria Chemica in the past quarter. You can contact us at Chemwatch if you wish to see the entire list. Common Synonyms (Update) Japanese Synonyms (Update) Dutch Synonyms (Update) German Synonyms (Update) IUCLID Flammability Data (New) IUCLID Explosive Properties Data (New) IUCLID Oxidising Properties Data (New) IUCLID Partition Coefficient Data (New) IUCLID Water Solubility Data (New) IUCLID Water Stability Data (New) IUCLID Vapour Pressure Data (New) IUCLID Flash Point Data (New) IUCLID Chemical Densities Data (New) IUCLID Boiling Point Data (New) IUCLID Auto Flammability Data (New) IUCLID Melting Point Data (New) Canada - Manitoba Ozone Depleting Substances (French) (New) Canada - New Brunswick Ozone Depleting Substances (New) Canada - New Brunswick Ozone Depleting Substances (French) (New) Canada - Manitoba Ozone Depleting Substances (New) Denmark Chemical Substances and Products Act - Active substances which shall not be used in Denmark in pesticides (New) New Zealand - Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code - Food Additives - Schedule 1 Permitted uses of food additives by food type (New) Australia - Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code - Maximum Residue Limits (Australia only) - Schedule 2 - Extraneous Residue Limits (New) EU Cosmetic Directive 76/768/EEC Annex V List of Substances Excluded from the Scope of the Directive (German) (New) EU Cosmetic Directive 76/768/EEC Annex III Part 2: List of Substances Provisionally Allowed (German) (New) EU Cosmetic Directive 76/768/EEC Annex V List of Substances Excluded from the Scope of the Directive (Danish) (New) Malaysia Food Regulations - Pesticide Residue (New) China Hygienic Standards for Uses of Food Additives (GB 2760-1996) - List of Flavourings Tentatively Permitted For Use (New) Canada Domestic Substances List (DSL) (Update) European List of Notified Chemical Substances (ELINCS) (Update) Canada Non-Domestic Substances List (NDSL) (Update) Philippines Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances (PICCS) (Update) Japan Chemical Substances Control Law - Existing/New Chemical Substances (Revised) Egypt Carcinogenic Substances with no known Threshold Limits which workers are not allowed to touch or become exposed to in any way (New) United Nations List of psychotropic substances under international control - Schedule IV (New) United Nations List of psychotropic substances under international control - Notifications concerning the prohibition of and restrictions on export and import (New) United Nations List of Narcotic Drugs Under International Control - Section 1 (New) US TSCA Section 4 (a) - ITC Priority Testing List (Update) Japan Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISHL) - Corrosive Liquid (Update) Canada Prohibited Toxic Substances - Schedule 2: Concentration Limits (French) (New) Japan Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISHL) - Specified Chemical Substances (Update) Japan Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISHL) - Harmful Substances Subject to Obtaining Permission for Manufacturing (New) Japan Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISHL) - Harmful Substances Prohibited for Manufacture (New) Domestic Use The Multiple Choice selections in the Use field have had ‘Domestic’ added to them. Checking this box will generate a CP in the Use field denoting that the material is intended for Domestic applications only, and will also generate other, appropriate CP’s in other sections of the MSDS. Units of Measurement Two of the Physical Properties have had additional units of measurement and/or conversions added to them: 1. Viscosity – mm2/s -> centistokes conversion 2. Vapour Pressure – hPa -> kPa conversion Japan Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISHL) - Organic Solvents (Update) Japan Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISHL) - Harmful Substances Whose Names Are to be Indicated on the Label (Update) Japan Industrial Safety and Health Law (ISHL) - Notifiable Substances (New) Australia Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP) - Schedule 6 (New) Australia - New South Wales Scheduled chemical wastes chemical control order 2004 (New) Canada Environmental Protection Act - Significant New Activity (SNAc) (Update) US - Wyoming List of Highly Hazardous Chemicals, Toxics and Reactives (New) Malaysia Occupational Safety and Health Act - Chemicals for which medical surveillance is appropriate (New) Japan Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Law Poisonous Substances (New) Australia Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP) - Schedule 4 (New) Australia Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP) - Schedule 3 (New) Australia Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP) - Schedule 2 (New) Japan Chemical Substances Control Law - Type I Monitoring Chemical Substances (English) (New) Switzerland Occupational Exposure Limits (German) (Update) Netherlands Occupational Exposure Limits (Dutch) (Update) South Africa Occupational Exposure Limits for Airborne Pollutants (Revised) Japan Working Environment Evaluation Standards (Japanese) (New) Bulgaria Limit values for the chemical agents in the air at the working environment (New) Canada - Alberta Ambient Air Quality Objectives (New) Canada Transport Dangerous Goods - Schedule 3 (Update) China List of Dangerous Goods (GB 12268-90) (New) Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail - Table A: Dangerous Goods List (RID 2005) (New) ADN - European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways (English) (Update) International Maritime Dangerous Goods Requirements (IMDG Code) (Update) International Air Transport Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods Regulations (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Ambient environmental standards (AQUA/1 to 6 organometallics) (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Ambient environmental standards (Domestic water supply - organic compounds) (Update) US - Vermont Hazardous Constituents (New) US Environmental Defense Scorecard Suspected Skin Or Sense Organ Toxicants (New) US Environmental Defense Scorecard Suspected Reproductive Toxicants (New) US Environmental Defense Scorecard Recognized Developmental Toxicants (New) Canada - Alberta Occupational Exposure Limits Skin (Update) Finland Occupational Exposure Levels (Finnish) - Biological Limit Values (New) US List of Chemicals Under Consideration for ESL Development for 2006 (New) US CERCLA List of Hazardous Substances and Reportable Quantities (Revised) EU Cosmetic Directive 76/768/EEC Annex VI Part 1 List of Preservatives Allowed (German) (New) European Union (EU) No-Longer Polymers List (NLP) (67/548/EEC) (Update) Canada Non-Domestic Substances List (NDSL) (Update) Korea (South) Toxic Chemicals Control Act - Chemicals not Relevant to Toxic (Update) United Nations List of psychotropic substances under international control - Pure drug content of bases and salts (New) Australia Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP) - Schedule 7 (New) Australia Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP) - Schedule 8 (New) Australia Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP) - Schedule 5 (New) US - Oregon Hazardous Materials (Update) UK Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs) (Update) European Union (EU) First List of Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Values (IOELVs) (Italian) (New) European Union (EU) First List of Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Values (IOELVs) (New) European Union (EU) Second List of Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Values (IOELVs) (Update) US ACGIH Threshold Limit Values (TLV) (Update) US ACGIH Threshold Limit Values (TLV) - Notice of Intended Changes (Update) US NIOSH Recommended Exposure Limits (RELs) (Update) US - Hawaii Air Contaminant Limits (New) United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods Model Regulations (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Pollutants entering waterways taken to cause environmental harm (Aquatic habitat) (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory Environment Protection Regulation Domestic water quality standards - Organic compounds (New) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Ambient environmental standards (STOCK - inorganic chemicals) (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Ambient environmental standards (STOCK - organic chemicals) (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Ambient environmental standards (IRRIG - inorganic chemicals) (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Ambient environmental standards (IRRIG - organic chemicals) (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Ambient environmental standards (AQUA/1 to 6 - organic chemicals - pesticides) (Update) Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Environment Protection Regulation: Pollutants entering waterways taken to cause environmental harm (IRRIG) (Update) India Chemical Accidents Rules - Schedule 1: List of Hazardous Chemicals (New) European Union (EU) List of Chemicals Subject to the PIC Procedure under the Rotterdam Convention (Revised) European Union (EU) List of Chemicals Qualifiying for PIC Notification (Revised) US Environmental Defense Scorecard Suspected Developmental Toxicants (New) US Environmental Defense Scorecard Recognized Reproductive Toxicants (New) European Union (EU) First List of Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Values (IOELVs) - Skin (Italian) (New) US Environmental Defense Scorecard Suspected Respiratory Toxicants (New) US Environmental Defense Scorecard Suspected Cardiovascular Or Blood Toxicants (New) US ACGIH Biological Exposure Indices (BEI) - Notice of Intended Changes (Update) UK Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs) - Biological Monitoring Guidance Values (Update) Finland Occupational Exposure Levels (Swedish) - Biological Limit Values (New) Finland Goverment Decision on Lead Work (Finnish) - Binding Limit Values (New) Finland Goverment Decision on Lead Work (Swedish) - Binding Limit Values (New) US ACGIH Biological Exposure Indices (BEI) (Update) Galleria Chemica Database Additions Out and about Staff Andrew Maxwell is a new Chemist/ MSDS Author at our Kynaston office. Having obtained Bachelor’s Degrees in both Biological Science and Computing at Deakin University in Geelong (2005), Andrew has been enlisted into the service as an MSDS author/ software tester/general purpose geek at the Kynaston office. He’s also a musician, but sshh you didn’t read that here! Gayathri Nawaratna has joined the customer relations team at the Clocktower office. Her main role is to centralize all the Chemwatch customer details into one central database and maintain the database regularly. Gayathri has obtained university qualifications in Applied Sciences and Chemistry in Sri Lanka, as well as studying Computer Science. Pictured at left, is consultant Henk Van Peski, from Holland, during his recent trip to our Kynaston Office in Melbourne. He is seen here with Mayumi Kurashina from the Clocktower office. Also dropping in to Kynaston was Dr Ursula Schumacher, Technical Manager for Intertek Testing Services, Shanghai, China. She is pictured here with Claude Neri from the Melbourne office. A new recruit! From the Melbourne office, Duncan and Natalie Hind found their daughter Millie proudly dressed and ready to work! Nayan Ghosh the project manager of the AITE team for Elogix India has been blessed with a baby girl on the 5th of December. Congratulations! Our agent in Holland, Harro Elsborg was married recently. Pictured below left are Harro and his beautiful bride. Guests at the wedding, pictured below from left to right, are: Natasha Soerdien, Daniëlle de Jager, Bernie, Harro, Aynur, Henk van Peski, Gert-Jan de Jager and Sandhya Soerdien. Following a shared Christmas lunch, staff from Kynaston and Clocktower braved the smoke from bushfires to update our group portrait. Apologies from Derek Barton and Bernie Bialkower who couldn’t join us, and Richard Greenwood who was taking the photo. 2007 CHEMWATCH COMPETITION Your Best Chemwatch Story In 300 words or less we would like to know your Chemwatch story. What has Chemwatch done for you? How has it improved your life?! The winner will receive a Chemwatch Bumper Gift Pack which includes a Deskmat, T-Shirts, Mouse Pad and more... Send your entries to: chemwatch@chemwatch.net with 2007 Chemwatch Competition in the subject line. Be sure to include your T-shirt size (S, M, L, XL, XXL). Good luck! Marek Rózycki is our new agent in Poland. He is a Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor with extensive experience in work safety, and is an expert in GHS! Asim Bhowmick has joined Elogix Software. He is working with the GC team. He has a Post Graduate Degree in Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Sciences, and Chemistry Honours from Calcutta University. Chemwatch in Europe Shell Global Solutions has signed a contract with Chemwatch B.V. in the Netherlands. Shell Gobal Solutions, an internal service provider to Shell, has chosen the Chemwatch database to provide their laboratories in Amsterdam, UK, Huston and Far East with chemical data. Fifty users have access to the database. We welcome Shell to the Chemwatch community. As from the 1st of January, Daniëlle de Jager will assist Chemwatch B.V. with sales, marketing and project management. Daniëlle has a Bachelor Degree in Environmental Chemistry. She has experience in the field of ink research and implementing quality, environmental and health & safety management systems (certified for ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001). She has extensive knowledge of national and European HSE laws and ADR requirements. Chemwatch B.V. is delighted to have Daniëlle working with them, and look forward to the contribution she will make to their expansion in Europe. We have a new agent in Turkey - Mikro Bilgi Kayit ve Dagitim A.S. Since 1983, MIKRO BILGI A.S. has acted as a representative for worldwide providers of critical technical information, related decision-support tools, and strategic & operational services. As the representative of esteemed international information providers, the company combines highly reliable technical content with deep domain expertise in its focused industries. Companies represented include: - IHS, Information Handling Services, whose technical databases are the largest and most comprehensive of their kind, and are unrivalled in their accuracy, quality, timeliness and consistency; - IEEE Electronic Library, the most comprehensive collection of the world’s highly valued electrical and electronic information from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; - Jane’s Information Group, which is considered by governments and military establishments around the world as one of the most important sources for military, intelligence, security, and terrorism information. MIKRO BILGI KAYIT VE DAGITIM A.S. uniquely provides its customers in Turkey with a single-source for gathering, aggregating, integrating, analyzing and delivering critical technical information. Related analysis, insight and consulting services, helps customers make critical business decisions, complete essential business processes, and improve productivity. MIKRO BILGI A.S., with headquarters in Istanbul, and a branch office in Ankara, Turkey, serves customers ranging from academic, government and large corporations, to smaller companies and technical professionals. MIKRO BILGI A.S. information solutions include internet subscriptions via customised packages such as information management tools and systems integration, utilising its international information providers. CD-ROM and hardcopy documents are provided via IHS ATP Engineering Documents and EU Publications Office. The Company provides solutions for the following verticals: academic, automotive, aviation/aerospace, construction, energy, government/department of defence, electronics/ telecommunications, petrochemical and utilities. MIKRO BILGI A.S. is an ISO 9001 registered company. International Scene Asia Pacific news Chemcare Consultants in Asia continues to develop Chemwatch sales and marketing for the Asean region. To further client support, a new Chemcare company has been registered with an office located in Bogor (near Jakarta). Sales are already growing, with the Freeport copper and gold mining complex, in West Papua, already a client. The mine complex is shown in the photo below. Other sales include the world’s largest nickel mining complex. In Thailand, the company Chemcare Asia Consultants (Thailand) has already been formed, with an office close to Lumpini Park, Bangkok. A sale of the Chemwatch regulatory database called Chemica Galleria, to National Starch, a division of ICI, has already been recorded. This will permit National Starch to monitor their compliance to global regulations, and will provide them with the service of email alerts for any change to regulations concerning their product components. Other sales within the region cover the drilling and off shore industries, a major port, and rigs etc. Chemcare associate Bin Salim, based in the Sultanate of Oman, has just completed a large training exercise utilizing the Chemwatch database for Cargo Safety and Emergency Response, in major Saudi Arabian airports. A sale to the BP Refinery in Sharjah has permitted the organization to have local language MSDS for the first time. This is providing a significant upgrade in Hazcom capabilities. A similar agreement with Occidental Petroleum for Oman is providing local Hazcom management also. International Scene cont. News from North America Greetings from North America during the Holiday Season! As we celebrate both the season and the end of our year, we wish all of you - clients, friends, and so many of both! – the best of peace, love and health into the coming year and beyond. It was a fascinating quarter as we completed the sales and installations of some of our most interesting and challenging applications. Perhaps leading the list in both the breadth of use and some new delivery technology, is our recent order from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Geoff Huse led the team who administered this purchase and installation. Thanks Geoff, and we look forward to serving Pfizer in the coming years. Joe Sheehan completed both an order, and one of the most distant deliveries in our ChemwatchNA history, with a sale to Raytheon Polar Services. Jim Wood recently helped Kurt Smith at Palmer station in Antarctica with their Chemwatch installation. Kurt said the disks arrived by ship in time for the summer season. In addition to use in the Antarctica, Joe worked with Bob Kluckhohn of Raytheon Polar Services to install it at their headquarters in the US, and several research and transport vessels. Thanks very much Bob for your confidence and your order. Chemwatch North America welcomes Kraft Foods as the latest client using the Chemwatch MSDS authoring system called Author(IT)e. Jim Wood had the pleasure of visiting one of their Chicago facilities for a multiple site training session in early December. As a former chemistry professor, our good Dr. Wood immersed himself into studying flavoring components to prepare his training examples, and word is that MSDS’s are flowing freely. Good luck and happy holidays to all our friends at Kraft Foods. Rounding out our end of the year, we were delighted to add Chevron Phillips (Houston) to the Chemwatch family. Dr. Bill Utley asked us for a Chemwatch introduction to his new colleagues, and we are proud and happy that they liked Chemwatch and Galleria Chemica. We will get to Houston soon to provide some training. We are finalizing our 2007 marketing plan at the moment, but included in our travels the first quarter will be an exhibition at the Pittcon Conference in Chicago at the end of February, and SOCMA in Baltimore in early March. Jim Wood will be there to show our authoring system Author(IT)e to all of the chemical/biochem companies who need to produce low cost, multi-lingual and global MSDS’s for their products. Whether you need a Japanese GHS or Russian ILO format, Chemwatch authoring will amaze you – it is so comprehensive and completely self contained. Author(IT)e includes Above left: Ross Grayson of the University of California Riverside, visits with Paul at the College show in Anaheim California. Above right: Joe Sheehan hosts a visitor to the CSHEMA booth in August. all regulations, ingredient information, toxicology and global formats and languages! If you need some information or a demonstration of Author(IT)e before the shows give Jim a call at 615-467-0383 (our Nashville HQ). Jim and Paul Chemwatch Australian 2007 training dates Chemwatch offers the following Accredited Training Courses: Introduction: RTC1701A Follow basic chemical safety rules: • using Chemgold II - One Full Day • using Chemwatch Blue - One Full Day BSBOHS504A Apply principles of OHS risk management - Half Day Risk Assessment: Courses will be held on either one of the two consecutive dates that are listed below. Chemgold II typically falls on the first of the two days. Chemwatch Blue (full day) or Risk Assessment (half day) will typically fall on the second day subject to demand. ADELAIDE March 13 or 14 Nov 20 or 21, 2007 BRISBANE March 6 or 7 Nov 27 or 28, 2007 MELBOURNE March 20 or 21 Nov 7 or 8, 2007 SYDNEY March 27 or 28 Nov 13 or 14, 2007 May 8 or 9 Aug 14 or 15 May 1 or 2 Aug 21 or 22 May 15 or 16 Jul 31 or Aug 1 May 22 or 23 Aug 7 or 8 PERTH Contact Chemwatch for details CANBERRA June 5 or 6, 2007 TASMANIA May 29 or May 30, 2007 DARWIN June 12 or 13, 2007 On-site group training for up to 12 participants is also available at $680.00 per half day or $1200.00 per full day exGST. Travel expenses, if required, will be additional. Please contact us for more information.