Scivera’s Chemical Hazard Assessments Explained
Assess is the culmination of expertise and innovation at Enhesa to create a simple intuitive way to assess chemicals for safety and sustainability. Behind each green, yellow, or red traffic light CHA result, are dozens of hours of research, computer modeling, data analysis, expert judgment, and quality assurance (QA) review for data integrity.
By Jill Stacy, Business Manager, Enhesa Sustainable Chemistry
Nearly every company I speak with says how Chemical Hazard Assessments are “time-consuming, tedious, and costly.” It’s one of the biggest pain-points our contacts tell us they experience.
I’m proud to say that our in-house toxicologists and scientific experts have developed over 4,500 verified Chemical Hazard Assessments (CHAs) in our chemical database. Each of these assessments goes through a rigorous process to ensure that users can make informed and confident chemical decisions using Assess.
Assess is the culmination of expertise and innovation at Enhesa to create a simple, intuitive way to assess chemicals for safety and sustainability – to ultimately save your teams’ time.
Where our Chemical Hazard Assessments start
There are several Chemical Hazard Assessment methodologies in use today. Each available approach has its own areas of emphasis and application – its advantages and disadvantages.
Enhesa’s toxicologists and chemical experts use a transparent and accepted process we developed from leading documented references for best practices in hazard assessment: our framework – it’s called the GHS+ Chemical Hazard Assessment (CHA).
Other examples of CHA frameworks include the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for Classification and Labelling of Chemical Substances, the US EPA’s Safer Choice Criteria, and Green Screen for Safer Chemicals.
What our Chemical Hazard Assessments say
The outcome of a GHS+ CHA is summarized in an easy-to-understand and at-a-glance traffic light symbol (i.e., green, yellow, red) system that makes the results easily accessible to experts and non-experts alike. Of equal importance to the simplicity of the GHS+ output is the depth of data detail available for each CHA.
Behind each green, yellow, or red traffic light CHA result, are dozens of hours of research, computer modeling, data analysis, expert judgment, and quality assurance (QA) review for data integrity.
When they’re ready for your teams
The final QA step in the process is performed by one of our senior toxicologists and results in a verified Chemical Hazard Assessment. Once a CHA is complete and verified, it receives special designation on Assess for all of our subscribers to view and use to make well informed chemical choices.
This work requires extensive toxicological training, experience, time, and collaboration to research and assess the 23 Human, Environmental, and Physical health endpoints that make up GHS+. For these reasons – simplicity, data detail, and expertise – a GHS+ CHA delivers a comprehensive understanding of a chemical’s potential impact on human and environmental health.
Assess subscribers can complete these preliminary checks on ingredients, formulations, and materials, and the GHS+ CHA delivers the deeper insight in an efficient way to enable safer chemistry innovation.
Additionally, Assess GHS+ CHAs are integrated with safer chemistry and product certification programs such as Screened/Scored Chemistry, EIM, Washington State Safer Metalworking Fluids program, among others.
Save time and money with our Chemical Hazard Assessments
For too long, decision-makers in the consumer products supply chain have been constrained by the limits and inherent deficiencies of restricted substance list checking and basic regulatory compliance for safer chemicals selection. These foundational efforts are critical but leave significant gaps in a process that can allow unlisted chemicals of concern to occur in products, and hinder a company’s ability to improve product chemical safety and select safer alternatives.
Assess your chemicals
Our solution, Assess makes chemical assessments easy and fast, with an intuitive colour-coded dashboard to spot hazardous chemicals at a glance.
Need further support? Send an email to sustainablechemistry.sales@enhesa.com