One-stop online chemical safety service

Croner-i Hazardous Substances is a new interactive online service to provide the practical, regulatory and substance information required for day-to-day management of dangerous/hazardous chemicals.

Croner, provider of online information, business advice and consultancy services, has launched Croner-i Hazardous Substances, a new interactive online service to provide busy health and safety and chemical professionals with all of the practical, regulatory and substance information they need for the efficient day-to-day management of dangerous and hazardous chemicals.

For those responsible for handling, storing and using chemicals, Croner-i Hazardous Substances, available solely online, provides a legal reference and advice service covering more than 100,000 substances and over 60 topics, including commentary on areas such as REACH, GHS, COSHH, and CHIP.

In the increasingly regulated chemical industry, it is designed as a comprehensive single reference point to help efficiently meet safety regulations and standards, such as the Responsible Care industry benchmark.

This easily navigable service provides the ability to search topics by keyword, and specific substances by CAS, UN, EC, Index number, or by substance name.

Croner-i Hazardous Substances also provides information on current and new legislation with in-depth expert commentary, health and safety and chemical news, articles, and downloadable model forms and policies.

Croner is already established in the chemical sector for providing reliable and up to date chemical chart-based information and legal interpretive commentary.

Croner-i Hazardous Substances consolidates various services and now brings them together into one unique online service, therefore reducing the time spent searching multiple sources.

The database combines EINECs, ELINCs, The No Longer Polymers List, The Official List of Dangerous Substances and ADR as the core legal inventories, with detailed chart-based content and interpretation which is written exclusively for the product by leading industry experts.

Information on topics such as health and environment effects, and emergency spillage and first aid, is presented along with classification and labelling data, carriage and handling information, as well as general substance content.

Key Features: Detailed substance charts providing general information, classification and labeling, health effects, environmental effects and carriage and handling (including emergency response) information; Coverage of over 100,000 chemicals; Ability to search substance by UN, EC, CAS or Index number and substance name; Interpretative content covering over 60 topics, including commentary from chemical and substance industry specialists; A-Z chemical content and updated classification information; Chemical and health and safety news and in-depth articles, including regular e-newsletters by email; Downloadable model forms, policies, employee factsheets and records; Full text chemical and hazardous substance-related legislation, official guidance documents and standards, with interpretative advice from Croner; Legislation tracker to track the status of forthcoming legislation; Weekly e-newsletter alerting you to changes to content; Access to our telephone helpline which provides advice on chemical and health and safety legislation.

Claire Beresford, market development manager at Croner says: "It's more imperative than in any other industry for those working with chemicals to utilise safe and legal working practices".

"However, with 80 percent of chemical companies employing fewer than 50 people, time is precious".

"That is why we've introduced a service which brings together in one place all the information needed to help achieve best practice in terms of safety - and crucially help to minimise the risk of accidents".

"With the industry facing the toughening of COMAH last year, and potential imminent changes due to the forthcoming REACH directive and Abnormal Hazards Regulations, safety professionals need to stay informed of developments.

In our experience, those people are turning more and more to online sources for information, although they readily admit that they are concerned that data freely available on the internet may not be current or reliable".

"We have therefore provided a 'one-stop shop' service of chemical information - the only resource they will need".

"Being online we can keep the service up to date with the very latest legislative and chemical regulatory information".

"We're extremely pleased to be meeting the needs of our customers by bringing together all the essential elements for safety and chemical compliance in this new service from the Croner name that professionals have grown to trust.

An annual subscription to Croner-i Hazardous Substances (full product) is £1,785 (excl VAT).

The content is also available in modular format (covering Health Effects, Environmental Effects or Carriage and Handling information) and these are priced at £595 (excl VAT).

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