Administration: Hazard Classifications and Ratings

Product and chemical hazards—including specific hazards, degrees of general types of hazard (like flammability and chemical instability), cautions, recommended safety practices and equipment, and so on—are recorded for your system's products and chemicals using hazard classifications and ratings. The difference between them is:

● Hazard Classifications: These are lists of classification items; each item indicates a specific hazard, condition, caution, pictogram, and so on. When a hazard classification and its items are defined in your system, you can assign one or more of its items to any product or chemical to indicate the specific conditions and hazards of that product/chemical. Comply Plus automatically includes certain standard hazard classifications in your system—such as the "GHS Pictograms" classification, whose items are the pictograms defined by the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)—but you can also define new ones.

● Hazard Ratings: Used primarily by US-based facilities, hazard ratings are the numbers, codes, and symbols appearing in the NFPA 704 "fire diamond" pictogram and HMIS "color bar" pictogram. These ratings are entered for each product and chemical individually, but administrators can decide which of these pictograms appear on products' and chemicals' Home pages.

To view your site's available hazard classifications:

Starting at the Application Administration page (How do I get there?), do the following:

1. In the menu on the left, under DATA, click Hazard Classifications.

The administrative Hazard Classifications page opens, showing all non-hidden hazard classifications available at your site. Select Show Hidden Classifications in the lower left to include "hidden" classifications on the display (see details below).

Each hazard classification's data is shown in the following columns:

● Scope: This icon indicates where the classification was created and, therefore, who can see, use, edit, and delete it:

This icon indicates a hazard classification that is either of the following:

● Created at Corporate. Can be seen and used by users at all sites; can be edited and deleted by Corporate users only.

● Supplied by Sphera. Can be seen and used by users at all sites. Both Corporate and local site users can edit its "Hide" properties for their respective scopes. New items can be added by Corporate users only.

Created at your local site. Can be seen, used, edited, and deleted by users at your site only.

● Action: Icons for viewing the classification's properties, editing the classification's properties, and/or deleting the classification. See Editing a Hazard Classification's Properties and Deleting a Hazard Classification for details.

● Name: The name of the classification. Click to view or edit the classification's items. See Editing a Hazard Classification's Items for details.

● Description: The description of the classification.

● Hide From: Home: A check () icon indicates the classification's items are not shown on the Home page of any product or chemical where they are assigned. (A classification with this property is a "hidden" classification, and is shown only when Show Hidden Classifications in the lower left is selected.)

● Hide From: Pick: A check () icon indicates the classification's items are not shown in any menu of available classification items, and therefore cannot be newly assigned to any product or chemical. (A classification with this property is a "hidden" classification, and is shown only when Show Hidden Classifications in the lower left is selected.)

2. Optional: To view a hazard classification's individual items (the items assigned to products and chemicals to indicate specific hazards, safety conditions, and so on), click the classification's name. When you are done viewing its items, click Done in the lower right. For more details on viewing (and editing) a classification's items, see Editing a Hazard Classification's Items.

If you have permission to manage your site's hazard rating visibility and hazard classifications, see the following topics for details:

● Hiding/Showing Hazard Ratings: Select which hazard ratings pictograms are shown (and which are hidden) on product and chemical Home pages.

● Creating a Hazard Classification: Define a new classification whose items can be assigned to products and chemicals to indicate specific hazards, safety conditions, and so on.

● Editing a Hazard Classification's Properties: Correct or update a hazard classification's name and other settings.

● Editing a Hazard Classification's Items: Add, edit, remove, and/or rearrange items in a hazard classification.

● Deleting a Hazard Classification: Permanently delete a no-longer-used hazard classification.