Chemicals settings: public SDS view and SDS suggestions
Choose whether anyone who scans a label sees the SDS and first aid, and whether software suggests details from uploaded safety data sheets. Both are off until an administrator switches them on.
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Applies to: Chemicals (SDS) · Administrator
Two choices for your organisation's chemicals. Only an administrator can change them; anyone else who opens the page sees how they're set.
Public safety data sheets behind labels
- Step 1: Open Chemicals, then Settings.
- Step 2: Under Public safety data sheets behind labels, select Switch the public view on (or Switch the public view off).
Off (the default): anyone who isn't signed in sees only your organisation's name when they scan a label. On: they see each chemical's name, supplier, hazards, PPE, first aid, spill and fire response and its SDS, never a person's name, who uses it, how much is kept, or your notes. Useful where emergency services, cleaners or visitors may need the SDS at the point of use.
Suggest details from an uploaded SDS
- Step 1: Under Suggest details from an uploaded SDS, select Yes, suggest details from uploaded SDS (or Stop reading SDS).
- Step 2: Each uploaded SDS is then sent to iComply's software, which suggests its details for the person confirming it to check.
- Nothing is saved until the person confirming the SDS ticks it, and the software never confirms anything.
- Your organisation's read assist switch (Settings → Read assist) stops SDS reading too while it's off.
- If reading isn't available on the server, your choice is kept for when it is.