Most chemical management programs break down at the moment they matter most—during an incident. EHS teams may not have access to chemical data or updated SDSs and lack the ability to connect chemical data to incidents, corrective actions, and enterprise risk visibility. This showcase demonstrates how organizations can move from simply accessing SDSs to actively preventing chemical-related incidents through connected workflows and real-time insights.

Using a real-world scenario, we show how frontline workers can quickly access SDS information, log incidents tied to specific chemicals, and enable EHS leaders to identify trends, take corrective action, and reduce risk across locations. The session highlights how connected chemical data improves audit readiness, simplifies compliance, and elevates EHS visibility with leadership.

This session highlights:

Start with SDS confidence in the field: Instant, no-friction access to accurate chemical data when incidents occur.
Connect chemicals directly to incidents and actions: Move beyond documentation to prevention through linked workflows.
Gain enterprise visibility into chemical risk: Identify trends, high-risk chemicals, and location-based exposure patterns.
Drive audit readiness and compliance: Maintain defensible records with connected data across SDS, incidents, and inventory.

Quantify and communicate risk impact: Tie chemical-related incidents to operational and financial outcomes.

All right. Welcome everyone to our Solutions Showcase, Beyond SDS, turning chemical data into safer operations. I’m Emily Wengel, and I’m really excited to have you join today. Our session is going to focus on how organizations can move beyond treating chemical management as a disconnected compliance task and instead use come connected chemical data to proactively improve safety outcomes, simplify compliance, and strengthen visibility into enterprise risk. So during today’s demo, you’re gonna see how organizations can quickly access trusted SDS documents during incidents and emergencies, net chemical data directly to incidents, investigations, and corrective actions, and gain visibility into chemical trends across locations organization. So before we get started, just wanted to go through a few quick housekeeping items. So all participants are in listen only mode. And if you have questions during the session, please use the q and a button at the bottom of the screen. We’re gonna have time for questions after the demo, and we’ll try to get to as many questions as possible. Also, a recording will be sent out after today’s session. So today, I am joined by Katie Bratti and Sean Salvas. Katie is one of our EHS technical sales consultants and works closely with organizations evaluating modern EHS and chemical management solutions. And Sean is our group product manager at Origami. He focuses on Origami’s EHS mobile and health care solution offerings. So Katie is gonna walk through today’s demo of a real world chemical incident to show how our chemical solution can support frontline workers, simplify compliance, and help organizations proactively reduce risk. So I’m gonna go ahead and hand it over to Katie to do the demo. We’ve seen how chemical programs can fall flat in the field when trying to access safety data sheets or during a safety event when they’re needed most. So today, we’ll walk through how employees can easily access chemical information and report a safety incident, and also what resources are available to prevent those events from happening again. Starting in the field, in this example, let’s say I’m a warehouse employee in our Chicago facility who is transporting containers of formaldehyde on a forklift. Before beginning the work, I will want to pull open the SDS. Clients can publish digital SDS binders to portals that can be pulled up on a browser. So as an employee, I could scan a QR code or click a link to view relevant safety data sheets, or search through them to pull open what I need. Now for this process, no login is necessary, and unlike a physical binder, the SDSs in browser are always up to date with the latest version from the manufacturer. This allows all employees to access and use the SDSs when they need them. And now let’s say that while moving those containers, a formaldehyde spill occurs, and we could document that instant here as well. Now in this case, we’ll start that reporting process, and then we’ll select chemical spill, and we’ll begin entering some information about the event that happened, namely where it took place in our Chicago area, who that reporter is, in this case, it’ll be myself that’ll pull in from the list, when this bill happened, and any other kind of relevant information could be added here too. This screen is configurable and designed capture in the field, because we know that if reporting is difficult, it doesn’t happen. Now to add a new involved chemical, we’ll just hit save and continue here, and we’ll scroll down to add a new one into the list. Now this is where we’ll search for that involved chemical. We can begin typing in here or search from a list. It’ll automatically populate any known information. We can also add other detail here, like who’s responsible for this bill, where it took place, the amount that was spilled, if it’s cleaned up or not. All kinds of information could be captured here, but in this case, we’ll go ahead and hit save changes. And if we are done capturing all the needed information, we’ll go ahead and also complete that incident. Now this is really where it becomes powerful, because we’re tying the incident to the chemical that was involved, and now every incident related to or involving a chemical will be tracked across the organization. Now safety team members will be able to view the incident report and then related chemical details in the Origami web application, and this is also where they’d be able to complete their reviews, their follow ups, investigations, and to sign out corrective actions. Here is that incident report that we just submitted together. Then over on the right hand side, I’ll be able to create those new actions or tasks. Here, you might need to assign some items for reviewing, storage procedures or reducing container volumes or retraining staff on proper handling techniques. In this way, we aren’t just logging incidents, but also assigning actions to mitigate that risk and prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. Now to further that goal, safety teams and leadership now get visibility into chemical risk across the organization. Here, we can see which chemicals are driving incidents, including formaldehyde here, which chemicals weren’t properly contained, and how long they remain that way, and also to better see where compliance risk and exposure risk intersect, we can see where these incidents are happening and if there are any hotspots like in Chicago, so we know where to apply resources or modify our safety programs. From here, I could drill into any of these visuals to view the instance tied to formaldehyde or analyze root causes and see what corrective actions were taken, And this is how EHS moves from reporting incidents to actually reducing them, and when it’s tied to claims or other costs, we could also quantify the financial impact of specific chemicals as well. Now that we know formaldehyde is driving incidents in Chicago, we’ll want to find out more about how it’s being managed there. Detailed inventory management will let us see all the chemical storage areas across the business, and here we’re looking into the chemical storage room in Chicago, where we can easily see what chemicals are present and how they’re being stored. Now, we could also click directly into one of these inventory items, like formaldehyde, to get more information about storage containers, chemical quantities, and also transaction history for a full understanding of the chemical and its usage over time. And while this inventory item was added some time ago, for safety teams, chemical management begins much earlier in the process because no chemical enters the facility without a formal request, review, and approval process. Now employees can request that new chemicals or products be made available at their location through a portal, or safety team members can begin that process from here in the web application, and that request would then be shared with the safety team and go through approval or rejection workflows that are all managed from this page. Now if A Chemical is new to the organization and approved for use, compliance and safety team users can request that the related safety data sheets be added into that digital binder an...

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