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November 29, 1999
TO: NAGASA Manufacturer, Converter, and Distributor Members
FROM: Peter Brehm
SUBJECT: Materials Safety Data Sheets On-line
Request for Input by December 30, 1999
NAGASA has supported and endorsed the CHEM VIEW™ MSDS CD ROM since 1996 as a way for dealers and their customers to comply with federal, state, and local regulations by permitting easy and effective access to current material safety data sheet (MSDS) information.
The Internet has provided a new avenue by which dealers and their customers can access MSDS information. CHEM VIEW is building a web site to allow this to happen, and NAGASA is supporting this effort since it promises to expand the ease with which the channel and the channel’s customers can get up-to-date MSDS information.
CHEM VIEW plans to provide access to these materials without charge.
Experts have told CHEM VIEW that the digital files used to create
the current MSDS CD ROM cannot be used to create Portable Document
Format (PDF) files of MSDS sheets on a web site. For this reason
CHEM VIEW must recreate its entire MSDS library.
Creating this online database is a big, but necessary, undertaking. CHEM VIEW has committed to making this happen, and they need your help. That’s why I’m contacting you. In order to put the MSDS materials on line CHEM VIEW needs either:
- A PDF file of the MSDS for each of your products or
- Clean, legible, paper copy of the MSDS for each of your products
Please help make this on-line database a reality. Indicate and return
to me the name of a person at your company whom CHEM VIEW can contact
about getting either PDF files or clean, hard copies of your current
MSDS forms. CHEM VIEW will then arrange specifics with this person.
If any costs are required to scan or convert your hard-copy documents
into a web document, CHEM VIEW will bear this cost.
As always, I appreciate your support of NAGASA and our efforts to improve
distribution processes. Creation of a website containing MSDS information
promises to be a terrific advancement that benefits all channel stakeholders:
- Customers and their employees can get quick access to current MSDS information.
- Dealers and their employees can also easily get this information as well as efficiently offer MSDS information to any customers who are unable to access the web.
- Manufacturers can minimize the cost and time associated with providing MSDS information and streamline the process by which they provide MSDS information to a range of dealers and customers.
- Governmental regulatory agencies will have additional assurance
that dealer and end-user employees have easy access to MSDS information
as required by law.
On this last point, we’re planning to introduce this web site and its contents at the National Environmental Health and Safety (NEHS) Conference taking place this March in Cincinnati. This conference is sponsored by leading customer associations and attended by key customer and governmental representatives. Providing MSDS information for inclusion on the site over the next months will be a terrific way of highlighting your support of web-enabled access to your MSDS materials!
Please let me know of any questions you might have. Thanks again!
Please mail, fax, or email this by December 30, 1999 to:
NAGASA, 1604 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-328-8441 Fax: 202-328-8513
Email: pbnagasa@aol.com
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