$image\sos550_shg.gif$ MSDS Subsystem (SOS550)

MSDS Procedures

The Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) System allows you to maintain MSDS sheet information for hazardous items and to track which customers have received MSDS sheets and when the sheets were sent.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor stipulates that distributors must provide an MSDS sheet for hazardous items. Therefore, distributors of hazardous items must be able to do the following:

Keep track of MSDS sheets for hazardous items
Send MSDS sheets to customers when they purchase hazardous items for the first time
Send updated MSDS sheets when appropriate
Maintain records of customers who have received an MSDS sheet and dates.

The MSDS subsystem contains the following programs:

MSDS On-Line Print (SOP350), which is used to print on-line MSDS sheets, summary sheets and optional cover letters

MSDS On-Demand Print (SOP360), which is used to print MSDS sheets, cover letters and summary sheets on demand.

MSDS ID Listing (SOR705), which is used to print a list of MSDS IDs with MSDS information and an optional list of items using each MSDS ID.

MSDS History Report/Reprint (SOR785), which is used to print a history report of MSDS sheets that have been sent to customers and reprint MSDS sheets previously sent (if the MSDS on-line print process is used).

MSDS ID F/M (SOF905), which is used to maintain information for each MSDS ID.

MSDS History F/M (SOF987), which is used to maintain the historical information for MSDS sheets sent.

MSDS Cover Letter F/M (SOF986), which is used to enter and maintain an optional standard cover letter to be printed with a group of MSDS sheets.

MSDS Print Code F/M (SOF988), which is used to maintain the MSDS print codes.

MSDS Print Command F/M (SOF989), which is used to maintain the MSDS print commands for individual warehouses.

MSDS Control F/M (SOF985), which is used to control records, by warehouse, for the MSDS System.

MSDS History Removal (SOU930), which is used to delete MSDS history records for a specified range of customers and cut-off dates.