Why SDS RiskAssist?

11 reasons OHS leaders choose our WHMIS SDS management software

SDS RiskAssist is once again a winner for best SDS management software solution in Canadian Occupational Safety’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2024 – for the seventh year in a row!

So why does this SDS management software earn such rave reviews from occupational health and safety leaders?

Simply put, SDS RiskAssist makes it easy for OHS leaders to meet their WHMIS obligations and build a robust health and safety culture in their workplace.

Here’s 11 reasons to choose our award-winning SDS management software for a safe, healthy, sustainable workplace:

1. SDS information is easy to find and understand

WHMIS requires employers to ensure all workers have 24/7 access to up-to-date safety data sheets.

Our fully automated “SafetySnaps” provide clear, concise summaries of all your SDSs, delivering hazard information, PPE requirements and safe handling instructions at a glance on desktop or smartphone.

Workers get all the info they need – instantly – to stay safe and reduce the risk of incidents that can cause harm and lost time, delays and major fines.

Just type 3 letters to find a product and see clear information and instructions:

2. Easily update SDSs to ensure WHMIS compliance

With SDS RiskAssist, you’ll always know when to update an SDS to provide current health and safety information. 

Our tools make it easy to review each SDS, source updated SDSs, cross-reference ingredient information with applicable regulations, identify health and safety priorities, and take action to implement necessary changes for PPE requirements, safe handling instructions and training.

Full service SDS updating

SDS RiskAssist also provides a full SDS updating service for clients who want to leave the entire job to us.

Our rigorous process reviews, verifies and updates each SDS in your collection, according to a schedule based on a number of factors and key data points. The verification process is documented, creating an audit trail that demonstrates SDS compliance.

3. See high priority hazards instantly

Instantly identify all chemical hazards on site at the click of a mouse. Colour-coded hazard information helps you focus on the most dangerous products first.

Use our Occupational Exposure Limits finder to instantly source compliance data for ingredients such as designated substances.

4. Quick answers to critical health & safety questions

Robust search tools are available to ALL users so that they can search privately for answers to questions like, “Can any of the products in my workplace harm my unborn child?” 

SDS RiskAssist shows reproductive toxicants, for example, at the click of a mouse, to protect employees and their families. Learn more about managing reproductive hazards in the workplace.

5. Easily compare and choose safer, lower risk products

Instantly compare products by WHMIS hazards for a safer, healthier workplace. This allows employers to eliminate unnecessary products and choose safer alternatives where possible. 

Loyalist College, for example, eliminated 300+ hazardous chemical products college-wide using SDS RiskAssist.

6. Easily cross-reference regulations

SDS RiskAssist tools allow you to cross-reference regulations, including seeing Occupational Exposure Limits by Product and Location.For example, the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development is running a health and safety inspection campaign from July 2024 to March 2025 to raise awareness about occupational disease, which is known to result in four times more deaths than traumatic workplace accidents.

Ministry industrial hygienists will be conducting proactive investigations for chemical agents listed on Ontario regulation 833, to ensure employees are not being exposed to these harmful ingredients above their exposure limits.

These chemical agents are often undetectable in a workplace, except with air sampling instruments.

To help with this, the SDS RiskAssist Regulatory OEL tools cross-references your SDS collection against the agents listed in Ontario Regulation 833 so that you can become aware of the potential for these exposures to occur and ensure safe working conditions for employees.

7. No more time-consuming SDS sourcing

Simply tell us what SDSs you need (or send us a picture and we’ll get it for you)!

8. Track your chemical product inventory

Our built-in inventory tracking tools make it easy to comply with reporting requirements for regulations such as the Ontario Fire Code and the National Pollutant Release Inventory. 

You can identify chemicals that are on specific lists and use the inventory component to decide if you need to report or not.

9. Provide job-specific training on-demand

WHMIS requires employers to educate and train workers on the hazards and safe use of products.

10. Meet your sustainability goals

See environmental hazards to protect water resources, reduce GHGs, and prevent other environmental impacts. Use our tools to instantly see which chemical products contain greenhouse gasses and volatile organic compounds and track your progress to meet your Sustainable Development Goals.

11. Comprehensive, efficient reporting

SDS RiskAssist provides visibility to key metrics across your organization to track progress and demonstrate compliances, serving as the foundation for a robust, WHMIS-compliant health & safety culture.