Hazardous Substance Management
Register the hazardous substances your teams use, assess exposure with chemical risk assessments, apply control measures and keep safety data sheet records attached to every substance - all reviewed and briefed to the people who need them.
Why teams switch
A binder of data sheets and assessments no one reads isn't control - it's paperwork. Safety Mate® keeps your substance register live, your assessments current and your controls in front of the people who are actually exposed.
Every hazardous substance your teams use, registered with its details and approval status, documents and safety data sheet records in one searchable place.
Chemical risk assessments record exposure routes, who may be harmed, the controls that apply and with review reminders built in.
Distribute assessments and control measures to your workforce with briefings and signatures recorded - proof that exposed workers have seen the controls.
Substance register
Build a live register of every hazardous substance in use - cleaning products, paints, adhesives, fuels, dusts and fumes. Each record carries the substance's hazards, documents and current assessment status.
Every substance registered with hazards, location and approval status.
Safety data sheet records stored against each substance, always findable.
See which substances are assessed, due review or missing controls.
Exposure control
Chemical risk assessments in Safety Mate® work through exposure routes, who may be harmed and the hierarchy of controls - from elimination and substitution down to PPE - so the control you choose is the strongest available, not just the easiest.
Inhalation, skin contact, ingestion - assessed per substance and task.
Control measures recorded in order of effectiveness, with PPE as the last line.
Competent can person review and approve substances before use.
Protect the right people
Every assessment records who may be harmed - employees, contractors, nearby workers, cleaners, visitors - and Safety Mate® distributes the finished assessment to exactly those people, with signatures captured as proof of briefing.
Who may be harmed recorded clearly in every assessment.
Distribution and sign-off recorded, ready for any audit.
Substance risks feed your wider risk register and intelligent analysis.
How it works
Add every hazardous substance with its details and data sheet records.
Complete chemical risk assessments with AI assistance and competent review.
Record control measures through the hierarchy, PPE last.
Distribute to exposed workers with signatures, and review on schedule.
For UAE sites
UAE operations bring their own chemical risks. Facilities management teams handle cleaning and water-treatment chemicals across dozens of buildings, construction sites use paints, adhesives, curing compounds and fuels, and industrial and oil & gas contractors work alongside process chemicals with strict client rules. Safety Mate® gives each of them one register, one approved SDS/MSDS per product and one chemical risk assessment per task.
High summer temperatures affect how flammable and reactive substances should be stored and used. Record storage conditions, segregation and temperature-related controls against each substance, so they carry through to the task.
Products arrive from suppliers around the world with data sheets in different formats. Attach the current SDS/MSDS to each substance, flag missing or out-of-date sheets and keep one approved version in use.
Translate control measures and briefings into 30+ languages, including Arabic, Urdu and Hindi, and record signatures to show exposed workers have seen and understood them.
A chemical register is a complete, up-to-date record of every hazardous substance your teams use - and Safety Mate® keeps yours live, searchable and linked to everything a client, consultant or auditor needs to see in one place.
Each entry in the register holds the substance name and hazards, its SDS/MSDS record, approval status, and the current chemical risk assessment covering who may be harmed and the controls in place. Nothing sits in a folder waiting to go out of date.
Hazardous substance software replaces paper registers and manual assessments with a structured digital process. Safety Mate® handles every stage in sequence.
Review reminders notify the right person when an assessment is due, keeping records current when substances, tasks or personnel change. Assessment status shows at a glance which substances are fully assessed, overdue for review or missing controls, and the register and assessments export as a clean PDF whenever a client, main contractor, consultant or authority asks for evidence. See how pricing works or book a demo to see it working.
FAQ
Hazardous substance management software keeps a register of the hazardous substances your teams use, together with the chemical risk assessments, exposure controls and safety data sheet records for each one. Safety Mate® connects all of this to your wider risk management, so substance risks are assessed, controlled and reviewed like everything else.
A chemical risk assessment identifies the substances your teams work with - from cleaning products and paints to dusts and fumes - and sets out the controls needed to protect people from harm. If your teams are exposed to substances that could harm health, you should assess and control the risk.
Create chemical risk assessments against each substance in your register, recording hazards, who may be exposed, exposure routes and the control measures that apply, finished assessments export as professional PDFs.
Yes. Each substance record holds its details and documents, including safety data sheet records, so the current information is always attached to the substance your teams are actually using - not buried in a shared drive.
Assessments and their control measures are distributed to your workforce through Safety Mate®, with briefings and signatures recorded - so you can show that the people exposed to a substance have actually seen and understood the controls.
Each substance is added to the register with its hazards, location, approval status and safety data sheet (SDS, often still called an MSDS) record, and goes through approval before it is cleared for use. If you already hold SDSs and chemical risk assessments, our document-import help during onboarding brings them across so you don't start from scratch. Where a substance has an occupational exposure limit - from its SDS or the limits your client or authority applies - record it in the chemical risk assessment alongside exposure routes and the controls that keep exposure below it.
Hazardous substance management and chemical risk assessments are part of the one Safety Mate® platform, configured around your organisation. Your proposal reflects your organisation's size, structure and requirements, with invoicing available in AED - book a demo and we'll talk it through.
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Register your first substances and create a chemical risk assessment in minutes. Book a demo to see it live.