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
OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard requires that safety data sheets be maintained and made readily accessible to employees for every hazardous chemical they may be exposed to. "Readily accessible" means someone in the work area can get to the right sheet without delay — during an exposure, that delay is the emergency.
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."
How SDS HQ does it

The library is built to be the working home of your program, not just cold storage:
- Search and filter across your whole collection by product, so the right sheet is a few keystrokes away.
- Upload supplier PDFs one at a time or in bulk; SDS HQ reads key fields off each sheet as it comes in so your library is organized, not just a dumping ground.
- Sheets you author with the GHS engine land in the same library alongside your uploaded ones — one collection, one search.
- Group selected sheets into a branded, page-numbered SDS binder as a single PDF for a printed station or an inspector.
- Everything is hosted per account in the cloud and reachable by your whole team, and on multi-site plans each location sees its own scoped library.
Hosting your library and reading sheets is free — the free plan holds up to 200 SDSs, and storage becomes unlimited from the Host plan up — because a library only does its job when everyone who needs a sheet can actually reach it.
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