What an SDS library is
An SDS library is the managed collection of every safety data sheet for the chemicals present in your workplace. It holds two kinds of sheet: the ones your suppliers give you for products you buy, and the ones you author for products you make. Both need to live somewhere durable, searchable, and shared — not in a binder on one shelf or a folder on one laptop.
SDS HQ hosts that library in the cloud, tied to your account, so it is the same library whether you open it from the plant floor, the office, or a phone in the warehouse.
Why it matters for compliance
§The ruleOSHA HazCom requires that safety data sheets be maintained and made readily accessible to employees for every hazardous chemical they may be exposed to. Someone in the work area must get to the right sheet without delay — during an exposure, that delay is the emergency.
How SDS HQ does it
- Search and filter across your whole collection by product — the right sheet is a few keystrokes away.
- Upload supplier PDFs one at a time or in bulk; key fields are read off each sheet as it comes in, so the library stays organized, not a dumping ground.
- Authored sheets land alongside uploads — one collection, one search.
- Group sheets into a branded, page-numbered binder as a single PDF for a printed station or an inspector.
- Hosted per account, reachable by the whole team — and on multi-site plans each location sees its own scoped library.
PlansFree hosts up to 200 SDSs; unlimited storage from Starter up. Reading is free for everyone, always.Compare plans A pile of PDFs does not meet that bar in practice: no one can find the one sheet they need fast enough, duplicates and stale versions creep in, and there is no way to see what is missing. A real library — searchable, deduplicated, current — is what turns "we have the sheets somewhere" into "we can produce the right sheet in seconds."
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