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CAPABILITIES / ELECTRONIC SDS BINDER

An electronic SDS binder every shift can reach

The paper binder works until the night shift needs it, a supplier revises a sheet, or a second building opens. An electronic SDS binder keeps one current copy of every sheet, searchable in seconds and reachable from any phone, with a printed binder still on hand for the day the network isn't.

What it is

The same binder, minus the failure modes.

An electronic SDS binder is your SDS collection kept as a searchable library instead of pages in a ring binder or PDFs in a shared folder. OSHA allows it, as long as the electronic system creates no barriers to immediate employee access (29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8)).
The paper binder doesn't have to disappear. It becomes a printout of the library, with the date on the cover, for a room without signal or an inspector who wants paper. The full trade-off is in SDS binder vs. digital SDS management.
THE RULE

OSHA HazCom, 29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) — electronic access and other alternatives to paper copies are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access are created. Same test as paper: any worker, any shift, in the work area.

How SDS HQ does it

Upload, find, share, print.

Upload the binder you have — supplier PDFs one at a time or in bulk; key fields are read off each sheet as it comes in.

Search instead of flipping tabs — find a sheet by product name in a few keystrokes.

QR codes at the container — a scan opens the current sheet, no login needed (Starter, $19/mo).

No-login share links — send any sheet to anyone; viewers are free and unlimited.

A printable backup binder — one page-numbered PDF with a cover, the compile date, and a table of contents.

Old revisions kept — replace a supplier PDF with a newer one and the earlier file stays on record.

One thing it doesn't do yet: SDS HQ doesn't fetch sheets from your suppliers or watch for their new revisions. When a supplier sends an update, you upload it, and the old version is kept.

PLANS

Free for up to 200 SDSs — unlimited storage and QR codes from Starter ($19/mo). Reading is free for everyone, always.

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Moving off paper

Switching without a gap.

Check the binder against what is actually on the shelf, upload every current sheet, keep the superseded ones instead of throwing them out, then put QR codes or links in each work area and have every shift pull a sheet once. The binder guide has the full migration checklist, and the OSHA SDS requirements checklist covers what the binder has to do in the first place.
RELATED CAPABILITIES

SDS library & hosting →

The library behind the binder: hosted, searchable, current.

QR scan-to-SDS →

A code on the container that opens the right sheet.

The free plan →

Up to 200 SDSs with unlimited viewers, no credit card.

Put your SDS binder online.

Start free with up to 200 SDSs. The printed binder comes with it.