Your comprehensive and up-to-date chemical hazard information resource

CHEMINFO Profiles are carefully and thoroughly prepared chemical research reviews--your professional source for chemical hazard information. Available individually from CCOHS in HTML format, CHEMINFO profiles can help you verify chemical hazard information because the research has been done for you!

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MSDS Verification

You receive an MSDS or need to prepare one but don't know what crucial and critical information is available to you about the chemical hazards.

Where can you turn to help determine if the MSDS' content is accurate, complete and thorough?

You could find yourself spending days or weeks searching many Web sites, consulting texts or reading dozens of journal articles and still not find the relevant information you need.

Use CHEMINFO Profiles instead to verify fire, reactivity, health hazards, handling and storage procedures, personal protective equipment, accidental release measures, first aid procedures, and much more.

Using CHEMINFO Profiles

Because we draw independent, verifiable conclusions, we let you know what critical information is available for each chemical in terms of health, fire, and reactivity hazard assessment and present it to you in practical language.

This service helps you provide more accurate and appropriate details to key people when you deliver chemical hazard control program information and updates.

CHEMINFO Profile Team

CCOHS' CHEMINFO profile team is comprised of chemical hazard assessment and control experts. Our team is unique because each member has 20+ years experience in their specialized field of knowledge.

Team members bring their collective expertise to each CHEMINFO Profile they develop through their extensive academic and professional backgrounds:

• Toxicology
• Fire and Reactivity hazards
• Epidemiology
• Industrial Hygiene
• Chemistry
• Regulatory Compliance
• Library Science

Creating a CHEMINFO Profile

Our multi-disciplinary team works together using their specialized education and experience in fire and reactivity hazards, chemistry, toxicology and industrial hygiene to develop a thoroughly researched chemical profile.

Globally-credible OSH Resources

We scour the world literature starting with internationally recognized bibliographic databases, such as

• OSHLINE™ with NIOSHTIC®, authoritative, up-to-date coverage on published OSH-related literature from around the world.
• TOXLINE from US NLM, used to conduct research on information and statistics about a wide range of toxicological topics.

And renowned secondary sources, such as

• World Health Organization (WHO) Environmental Health Criteria documents
• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs
• ATSDR Toxicological Profiles
• Bretherick's Guide to Chemical Incompatabilities

CHEMINFO Profile Research

It's been asked of us, "Just how many reports/thesis/journals does the CCOHS CHEMINFO Profile team review to ensure that they're doing an excellent job? And how long does this take?" To clarify, the team selects the most appropriate and highest-quality information for inclusion in each of the 16 sections of a CHEMINFO Profile.

The team relies almost exclusively on peer-reviewed, primary scientific data to write each CHEMINFO Profile, plus they reference key original literature references used and where necessary, reliable secondary sources. When you purchase a CHEMINFO profile, you can justify your choice knowing that each one has been put through our rigorous verification and review process. The quality of our work means that you can verify and use CHEMINFO profiles with confidence.

Developing a CHEMINFO Profile

CCOHS analyzes the findings and determines which key original articles are required to validate the scientific methods and conclusions and establish the overall, verifiable hazards of the chemical.

If controversial or contradictory information is found, our team continues to research and validate the information or consults with external experts.

If very little information is available, we draw from our extensive experience in evaluating chemical hazards and make sound, documented extrapolations where feasible.

The final result is that the work is done for you!

CHEMINFO Profile Maintenance

Over 40 carefully selected peer-reviewed journals are scanned each month and key secondary sources are continuously monitored so the team can identify important changes, improve and update each CHEMINFO profile.

Any changes that are made to the original profile are documented as Revision Indicators, helping you track significant developments.

Pricing & Ordering Information

CHEMINFO Profiles are $25 each. Pricing is in Canadian dollars for Canadian orders and US dollars for US or International orders.