We’ve released a minor update to the program. It is free for licensed SDScribe™ 2024 users, and you can either update the program when reminded (on program startup), or from our existing customers page. A full list of the changes appears in the “About SDScribe™” box (Help menu).
Among the updates:
Revisions to the Suggestions button (“2 Hazards” tab of the SDS entry form) so that the report it produces uses hazard classification descriptions from UN GHS rev. 7. Previously, the program used GHS rev. 4 descriptions.
The Suggestion report, showing UN GHS rev. 7 descriptions for suggested hazard classifications.
The Suggestion report now takes into account different cut-off concentrations for ingredients’ relevance to triggering some hazard classifications for the product mixture, depending on the GHS revision you select for the SDS (on the “2 Hazards” tab).
For skin and eye corrosion classifications, the Suggestion report now takes into consideration the possibility that an individual ingredient at or above a 1-percent concentration level has an extreme pH (outside the 2 to 11.5 pH range on the linked Substance record). Previously, the report only checked the pH of the mixture itself.
On the “9 Phys-chem props” tab of the SDS entry form, the program now switches the “required” field titles (indicated by a bold burgundy color on the field titles), based on the GHS revision you select for the SDS.
On the Substances browse list, when you select Hazards -> “With GHS hazard class…” from the Search button menu, you can now find Substance records with multiple GHS hazard classes, by [Shift]-clicking or [Ctrl]-clicking on each additional hazard code from the list.
The selection dialog to search for GHS hazard classifications among the records in the Substances browse list. [Shift]-click or [Ctrl]-click to select multiple criteria.
Also on the Substances browse list, Search button menu, Hazards submenu, there is a new option to find records “Without GHS hazard classes”.
New option from the Substances browse list, Search button, to search for Substances “Without GHS hazard classes”.
Some hazard classification categories needed to be added to UN GHS rev. 7 and to US21 (the 2024 US-OSHA Hazard Communication Standard), either because the existing entries did not have any subcategories (A, B, etc.), or because the existing entries had only subcategories.