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Safety data sheet management and authoring software

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Authoring a compliant Safety Data Sheet means navigating GHS classification, multi-jurisdiction formatting, ingredient-level hazard data, and regulatory deadlines that vary by market. Enhesa gives chemical manufacturers and distributors a single platform, and the expert-curated content behind it, to get this right at scale.

What Is SDS Authoring and Management?

Safety Data Sheets are legally required hazard communication documents that must accompany chemical substances and mixtures wherever they are manufactured, sold, or transported. For global enterprises, producing and maintaining compliant SDSs is an ongoing technical and regulatory workflow with two distinct challenges.

SDS authoring is the process of creating those documents correctly in the first place. It involves:

  • Hazard classification – determining the correct GHS hazard categories based on toxicological, physical, and environmental data
  • Regulatory mapping – applying the classification rules of each target market (OSHA HazCom, REACH, WHMIS, and others), which differ in structure, section requirements, and approved terminology
  • Ingredient and CAS data – recording substance identities and concentration ranges against a verified ingredient database
  • Language and format compliance – producing correctly formatted, locally translated SDSs for every jurisdiction where the product is sold or handled

SDS management is the ongoing process of keeping those documents accurate, accessible, and current. It involves version control, audit trail maintenance, distribution to employees and downstream users, and updating SDSs when formulations change or regulations are revised.

For any company operating across multiple markets or managing a large product portfolio, doing either of these manually, or with legacy MSDS software, creates compliance gaps that regulators and auditors could find.

Achieve chemical compliance with our SDS solutions

Our SDS software gives you a streamlined, end-to-end platform for authoring and managing Safety Data Sheets with confidence. Companies benefiting from our powerful solution include Aon (American Oncology Network), Cargill, McCormick and Patterson Companies Inc. 

Achieve global regulatory compliance through accurate classifications, up-to-date regulations, and local language translations, all backed by a private CAS ingredient database. The software transforms your approach to SDS authoring and management. With anytime, anywhere access, offline SDS availability and detailed reporting, our SDS platform helps organizations reduce risk and improve workplace safety from a single intuitive system. 

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SDS authoring capabilities

Easy-to-Use Guided Wizard

The platform walks authors through SDS creation step by step using an intuitive wizard tool. Built-in validation flags errors and tells you exactly where to go back and fix them — so compliant documents get produced faster, with less reliance on specialist users.

Up-to-Date Regulatory Data and Classifications

As regulatory updates become available, the software is updated to generate the corresponding hazard classifications, label elements, and template modifications — keeping your SDSs compliant with GHS and OSHA requirements without you having to track the changes manually.

Global Ingredient Library

Enhesa’s SDS solution provides regulatory data for ingredients via a global library. Enter data once at the ingredient, product family, or system level and apply it across all applicable products – eliminating duplicate effort and reducing the risk of inconsistent classification across your portfolio.

Flexible Customisation

The platform supports manufacturing under multiple manufacturers and allows mass product updates. Statements that apply across all products with a shared ingredient can be set at the ingredient level; those specific to individual products can be modified independently.

Duplicate and Edit in Under 5 Minutes

For products that are substantially similar – white-label variants, concentration changes, pigment differences – authors can duplicate an existing SDS, make targeted edits, and produce a new compliant document in under five minutes rather than starting from scratch.

R&D Information Control

R&D designations within the platform keep research and development SDSs separate from commercial SDSs — giving your team information control across different product stages without manual file management.

SDS Management Capabilities

Access from Anywhere, Including Offline

Your team can access up-to-date SDSs from any device or location, including mobile units, trucks, and job sites. The TotalSDS Manager app also provides offline access, so critical safety information is available even where internet connectivity is limited or unreliable.

Global SDS Library, Always Current

SDS Manager provides access to an extensive global SDS library, with documents sourced and kept current on a scheduled basis throughout the life of your contract, so your library matches the products your employees are actually using, without manual upkeep.

Powerful Search and Reporting

Search your entire SDS library by product name, manufacturer, alternative names, CAS and ingredient information, classifications, hazard and precautionary statements, and transportation data. Run chemical reports based on ingredients, classifications, physical properties, and regulatory information, including the OSHA-mandated chemical inventory list.

Unlimited Users Across Multiple Locations

The platform supports an unlimited number of users and administrators, with two access levels – an employee-facing search interface and an administrative portal for reporting and library management. SDSs can be assigned to specific locations, and the system scales across multiple sites and departments without additional user fees.

Connected Directly to SDS Author

SDS Manager integrates with SDS Author, allowing documents to be published directly from the authoring platform into your chosen library location. When a document is updated in Author, it flows through to Manager — no manual transfers or version mismatches.

Why Enhesa?

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End-to-end workflow

The integration of the SDS solutions will provide a connected workflow that links regulatory, chemical and product safety data and insights.

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Foundational to workplace safety

Anticipate regulatory change, produce compliant documentation and maintain confidence in your chemical safety programs.

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Global chemical compliance

A comprehensive solution for the chemicals supply chain to stay compliant with complex and constantly changing global regulatory requirements.

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The software helps guide you – if something’s wrong, it tells you where to go back and fix it. It’s very user-friendly, especially with the wizard tool. I would absolutely recommend. The support is great. The service is great.

Danielle Knox Regulatory Affairs Manager, Brandt Consolidated.
SDS solutions

All-in-one SDS compliance

Our suite of SDS solutions is designed to simplify the creation, management, and maintenance of Safety Data Sheets (SDS). It helps businesses that manufacture, sell, or handle chemicals meet mandatory regulatory requirements across federal, regional, and local levels, while aligning with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and its country-specific variations.  

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Improve your SDS process

Unlike traditional SDS/MSDS softwarewhich is often outdated, manual, error-prone, and slow to adapt to regulatory changesour SDS software automates and streamlines compliance. The goal is to reduce complexity, improve accuracy, keep up with evolving regulations, and ultimately support safer workplaces across industries. 

SDS Solutions

Regulatory content and sustainability intelligence

SDS Author

Make Safety Data Sheet creation simple to create safer workplaces and environments.

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SDS Manager

Use this reliable SDS management software to simplify chemical compliance and enhance employee safety.

Additional services are available on request

For those wanting additional support, expert services are available to help with processes including SDS label authoringconsultation on hazard communications or updating and sourcing SDSs. While translation is a part of the software package, there are also professional human translators available 

For information on the background to these proven SDS solutions, please read this press release or blog article, and visit totalsds.com.

Access information for our SDS solutions now

Find out more about how our Safety Data Sheet software and solutions can benefit you.

Ask for a demo of the SDS solution so we can showcase the power of this software.

Plus register your interest today to receive these free resources on key SDS deadlines: U.S. (Jan 2026) and Canada (Dec 2025):

  • WHMIS 2022 and SDS updates for Canada
  • Impacts of OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard 2024