Note: Use restrictions should not be confused with usage restrictions; see Administration: Usage Restrictions.
A use restriction is a piece of text related to a chemical list, such as a regulatory list of banned or restricted chemicals (see Administration: Chemical Lists). This can be a description of how your company uses the list, directions on how to treat products containing ingredients cited by the list, and so on. Each use restriction can refer to a single chemical list only.
Use restrictions appear in the Material Request & Approval module (see Material Request & Approval) when users perform Use Restrictions or Use Restrictions (Misses) tasks. Specifically:
● A user performing a Use Restrictions task sees the use restrictions whose chemical lists include one or more of the request’s related ingredients. For details, see MRAP Task Type: Use Restrictions.
● A user performing a Use Restrictions (Misses) task sees the use restrictions whose chemical lists do not include any of the request’s related ingredients. For details, see MRAP Task Type: Use Restrictions (Misses).
Given this functionality, a use restriction should tell users something helpful and appropriate for handling a product that contains (or does not contain) substances from the use restriction's chemical list. Example: A company is attempting to phase out chemicals cited by the US EPA's CAA List of High Risk Pollutants. This company might create a use restriction for this chemical list that reads: “Attempting to phase these chemicals out of inventory. Do not acquire any new products containing these chemicals.”
A use restriction created at Corporate can be available to all local sites. A use restriction created at a local site is available to that site only.
To view the use restrictions available at your site:
Starting at the Application Administration page (How do I get there?), do the following:
● In the menu on the left, under DATA, click Use Restrictions.
The administrative Use Restrictions page opens, showing all use restrictions available at your site. In addition to the textual content of each use restriction, this display also shows each use restriction's properties in the following columns:
● Scope: Where the use restriction was created: Corporate (
) or your local site (
).
● Action: If you have permission to delete or edit a use restriction, icons for doing so are shown here. (See procedures below.)
● Use Restriction Name: The name of the use restriction, which should summarize or introduce its purpose.
● List Name: The name of the chemical list (from the administrative List Matching page; see Administration: Chemical Lists) related to the use restriction.
If you have permission to manage use restrictions, see the following topics for details:
● Creating a Use Restriction: Create a new use restriction for use at your local site (if you are a local site user) or at all sites (if you are a Corporate user).
● Editing a Use Restriction: Modify a use restriction's name, related list, and/or textual content.
● Deleting a Use Restriction: Permanently remove a use restriction from your system.
