CHAMP - Hazard and Risk Assessments Software
Chemscape’s CHAMP (Chemical Hazard Assessment and Management Program) tool integrates into msdsBinders and takes your chemical management and handling program to a more sophisticated level. CHAMP forces chemicals to go through a multi-staged approval process, including a hazard assessment, before getting added to msdsBinders. CHAMP can assess your current chemical inventory and suggest substitutions and/or controls to reduce workplace health risks.
Software Details
Reduce the risk and have a clear picture of your health hazards. Develop controls or recommend substitutions for all chemicals at your work sites. CHAMP’s online analysis tool with a mobile app generates expert insights site-to-site in clear, easy-to-understand terms.
With CHAMP, analysis that used to take seasoned experts months to complete, can now be accomplished in minutes. You can have a clear picture of the true health and safety risks to your workers and the environment. Make informed decisions. Put the Health back in your Health, Safety and Environment programs.
Identify your Chemicals – An accurate chemic...
- Identify your Chemicals – An accurate chemical inventory is the foundation of a chemical management system. msdsBinders is the perfect starting point for capturing this information and breaking it down by location.
- Understand their Hazards – We layer CHAMP into your msdsBinders subscription so users can do assessments on chemicals for physical, health and environmental hazards by cross referencing credible regulatory databases. CHAMP can also be used as a part of a chemical approval process prior to new chemicals being added to your msdsBinders subscription. Create a banned substance list for your organization and implement the ability to approve or not based on this list.
- Assess Risks & Controls – End users need to assign values to variables for a chemical approval like exposure time, product use and quantity. This information can affect its hazard ranking and clarifies the risk to one’s health and the environment.
- Apply Substitutions & Implement Controls – CHAMP summarizes the results of the chemical hazard and delivers recommendations on what you can substitute, if outside Occupational Health guidance is required, and how to better control a hazardous substance.
- Evaluate – Adding CHAMP and health risk assessments into msdsBinders will reinforce behaviour towards safer chemical handling and influence change within an organization.
How will you Benefit from Developing a Chemical Hazard Assessment and Management Program?
- Access for all workers to health risk assessments and chemical substitutions.
- Improve control of chemical selection and use in your organization.
- Increase knowledge for all workers in identifying chemical hazards and encouraging safer handling use.
- Reduce worker exposure to harmful chemicals and demonstrate due diligence.
- Fulfill corporate value statement of being a leader in Health and Safety.
- Meet and exceed regulatory requirements.
Elevate the level of occupational health standards for your company. Keep workers healthy, safe and more productive. Discover the msdsBinders difference today.
Detox your Chemical Inventory
CHAMP methodology follows the hierarchy of controls in providing advice and starts at the elimination/substitution level. To enable the most effective control, CHAMP facilitates easy searching directly within the msdsBinders system to substitute similar chemicals appropriate to your process.
Eliminating hazards at the source is the most effe...
Eliminating hazards at the source is the most effective method of reducing adverse health effects in the workplace. CHAMP assessments are based upon an industrial hygiene principle known as the hierarchy of controls to guide employers and workers to eliminate or reduce hazardous chemicals at the source by substituting them with safer alternatives. These strategies can completely eliminate exposure to hazardous chemicals, reduce the potential for chemical accidents, reduce disposal costs, and remove concerns regarding worker health and safety.
Mike Phibbs President of Chemscape talks to iKan Media at the 2016 Banff Petroleum Safety Conference on managing Chemical Hazards and the Hierarchy of Controls.
Improve how you Manage your Contractor`s Chemicals
Use CHAMP for your contractors
Do you need better control of the chemicals contractors are bringing onto your worksite? Challenged with enforcing safety standards and critical processes?
CHAMP Projects is a module built into msdsBinders to provide the ability for an owner/prime contractor to manage the chemicals being brought to and utilized on a project by a contractor/subcontractor. You can add this portal into your existing msdsBinders subscription.
Process of CHAMP Project
How does CHAMP Project Get the Job done?
It captures the inventory of your contractor(s):
- Have a searchable inventory of all chemicals from your contractors.
- Find the hazard ranking of their chemicals.
- Do searches based on regulatory lists.
It enforces standards:
- Apply a tiered approval by product and or hazard.
- Determine who has the authority to approve certain chemicals and what is allowed on site.
- Enforce your company Health, Safety and Environmental Standards.
It communicates hazards: Use the SMARTCHART® to communicate visually the hazards and risk of products by contractor.
It finds substitutions : Access msdsBinders CHAMP database to look for safer products.
It shares critical information: Give contractors access to Emergency Response Plans, Spill Response and hazardous waste plans based on their site and inventory.
It measures performance: Receive performance indicators based on monitoring Chemical Inventories, Hazards and Control Implementation
How will you Benefit from using CHAMP Project?
- Close the gap on safety with contractors/subcontractors.
- Control and influence the chemicals being brought onto your worksite.
- Capture and track your contractor’s chemical footprint.
- Reduce worker’s exposure to harmful chemicals and demonstrate due diligence.
- Fulfill corporate value statement of being a leader in Health and Safety.
The Impacts of Better Chemical Management
Improve worker health: Occupational illness and death statistics due to chemical exposure are in reality higher due to the long latency periods between chemical exposures and the onset of disease, as well as the lack of understanding between illnesses and chemicals. Replacing known hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives can help reduce these numbers.
Reduce costs: Using hazardous chemicals in the workplace results in substantial direct, indirect, and liability costs to business, public health and the environment.Transitioning to safer alternatives can reduce these costs, as well as improve performance efficiency, industry leadership and corporate stewardship.
Reduce potential for regrettable substitutions: Hazardous chemicals have the potential to be misused in the workplace; replaced with substitute chemicals or redesigned products or processes that may pose new and potentially greater hazards to workers. Implementing a process of informed substitution – which examines the hazard, performance, and cost of all options – can protect workers and identify replacements that are unlikely to cause more problems or be a target of future regulatory efforts.
Achieve compliance with laws and regulations: Legislation has been in place to regulate chemicals but in recent years’ government is requiring even greater disclosure of chemicals throughout the supply chain. The trend will only continue in future with greater restrictions and reporting requirements placed on companies. Taking a proactive approach transitioning to safer alternatives keeps companies compliant locally and competitive globally.
Be a corporate steward of the environment: Transitioning to safer chemicals in the workplace can also contribute to creating products that are less hazardous for the environment. This gives businesses the opportunity to brand their company with a new, green and innovative image.
Exposure Control Plans
Need Exposure Control Plans? Better Exposure Control Plans?Easily Accessible Control Plans to Download for All Your Worksites
Based on your operating jurisdiction and governing regulatory body you may be required to create and implement Control Plans for a particular substance or for the chemicals at your worksite. Certain regulatory bodies (WorkSafeBC, Occupational Safety and Health Administration in USA, and Occupational Health and Safety in AB) require employers to develop Control Plans. The documents may have different names based on the jurisdiction.
Our CHAMP tool can generate documents based on information from a client's existing (M)SDS inventory to be accessible to employees from their msdsBinders site.
Now create a comprehensive professional plan for a fraction of the time and cost.
Chemscape has made it possible for you to rapidly develop custom Control Plans at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. No longer do you have to find and hire a high priced consulting firm and then wait weeks to see the end product. Now in just a few hours using Chemscape's CHAMP tool you can have a custom Control Plan that includes:
- Responsibilities of the employer, health & safety manager, supervisors & workers
- Health hazards & risk categories
- Required engineering & administrative safety controls
- Exact Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) requirements
- Hygiene facilities & decontamination procedures
- Training & annual review process
Can you Identify all Workplace Health Hazards?
Can you spot the health hazard?
Workplace health hazards are not always obvious. We all bring our own experience and judgement to the task of identifying hazards. Attitudes and behavior in a workplace or industry can build up a level of risk tolerance. Risk-taking and short cuts can become an accepted part of the job. It’s natural human behavior to become more complacent over time as routine high hazard tasks become familiar. Sometimes a cowboy like attitude can develop where workers take pride in the risks they are taking in their job. New workers may not have the experience to identify hazards. Inexperienced employees may lack to confidence to speak up in a workplace where taking risks is accepted.
Technology like the CHAMP system in msdsBinders can objectify the hazard assessment process to provide consistent best practices for working with chemicals based on international standards. Fast easy to access information on the health hazards of a product is at your fingertips using CHAMP. Knowledge that was once the domain of chemical experts can now be accessed by every worker no matter the level of their experience or area of expertise.
What are the benefits of a standardized and objective hazard assessment and control?
Hazard assessments are the core of every occupational health and safety programme. Identifying hazards is a critical first step prior to eliminating the hazard or controlling the risk before an exposure or incident occurs. A standardized and objective hazard assessment which CHAMP provides information that:
■ Inspire improvements in day-to-day operations
Workers can become more proactive in safety when they see how small changes can be more important that they thought. Show a workplace commitment to health.
■ Removes personal bias and risk from a hazard assessment
All workers have access to objective 3rd party information based on international standards that eliminates the failings of human bias in hazard assessments.
■ Focus attention on improving workplace health and safety.
CHAMP hazard assessments draw attention to areas in need of improvement. They get your workers thinking — and talking — about health and safety.
■ Result in a more consistent, efficient and effective workplace.
Managing hazard assessments in one centralized system ensures consistent standards throughout your operations.
■ Increase productivity and lower operating costs.
Fewer incidents means fewer claims filed with the Workers’ Compensation Board and increased productivity with less time doing incident investigations. Fewer insurance claims means lower annual premiums.
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