We have released an update to SDScribe™. It is free for licensed SDScribe™ 2023 users, and you can either update the program when reminded (on program startup), or from our existing customers page. A full list of the updates appears in the “About SDScribe™” box (Help menu).
Among the changes are:
An enhancement to the “About SDScribe™” box (Help menu, “Environment” tab), providing the most recent date and file name for imports of Substances, GHS hazards, exposure limit values, regulatory lists, and DOT hazardous material classifications. As the items listed are a work in progress, we expect this feature to grow with time.
View files that have been imported and when.
Review imports… (button) — This new button is located on the “Utility functions…” dialog, accessible from the File menu -> “Imports-exports and utilities…”. Clicking on the button causes the program to display a dialog of available imports, from which you can select the ones you would like to run by checking boxes in each row. (You can also double-click on a row, to read additional details about the import.)
Click on the OK button to run the imports you have selected.
The dialog of available imports can also appear when you upgrade to a newer version of SDScribe™.
“Utility functions…” dialog, with the new “Review imports…” button.
“Select import(s)…” dialog, displayed by clicking on the “Review imports…” button.
In this version, we’ve also added or updated imports so that they make use of the new “About SDScribe™” and “Select import(s)…” functionality, as well as providing more recent import files.
Australian, EU-OSHA , and US-OSHA (Table Z-1 annotated) exposure limit requirements/recommendations.
California Prop. 65
Canada Domestic and Non-Domestic Substances lists (DSL/NDSL)
EU Cosmetics (allowed colorants, allowed preservatives, allowed UV filters, prohibited and restricted substances)
EU Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC)
US DOT hazmat table
US EPA PFAS master list
US EPA TSCA public and confidential entries (new)
Phrase translations enhancements — Added a second tab to the Phrase translations section of the program, called “Custom translation groups (CTGs)”. CTGs allow you to override built-in translations when generating non-English SDSs and labels. You can also create a CTG for a language that has no built-in support, and thereby generate a full SDS or label in a new language.
New “Custom translation groups (CTGs)” tab added to the Phrase translations browse list.
If you are an existing user, we have also provided a sample CTG in Polish that you can use, by clicking on the Import button (bi-directional arrow icon, at lower right). New users will find that the sample Polish is already available in the program starter data.
Polish sample CTG that can be imported, for existing users who have upgraded.
For more details on how CTGs work, read the background help for the Phrase translations browse list.
More comprehensive regulations table — More imports now add rows to the regulations table, and consequently more entries appear in the regulations table (both for individual Substance records and for SDS records).
There is a new column, “Region”, for the country or region code where the regulation is applicable. The new column lets you exclude/include region codes on the SDS regulations table, using the “Omit” column header or by clicking on one of the flag buttons, to the left of the table.
For Substances, there is also a new column for “Most recent update”.
Regulations table on the Substances “Regulatory” tab, showing the new “Region” column. Off to the right is the new “Most recent update” column.
Regulations table on the SDS “15.1 Regulatory” tab. Click on one of the “flag” buttons to select a country or region to include; the program will mark as “Omit” other country/region codes, and place the omitted entries at the bottom of the list. You can also click on the “Omit” column header to exclude or include country/region codes.
SDS exposure limits table — This table has a new column, “Other name/description” which initially contains the contents of the “Chemical” column on the Substance exposure limit table.
The generated SDS should use the same name for a component in Section 8 as was used in Section 3 (Composition). However, that requirement may obscure relevant information from the original limit, such as “respirable fraction” or “total dust”. Consequently, when the “Other name/description” column contents differs from the content in the SDS “Chemical” column, both will appear on the SDS.
Like the SDS regulatory table, the SDS exposure limits table also allows you to exclude rows by additional categories in the “Omit” column header
Substance exposure limits table for Limestone, showing different forms and sample collection types.
Exposure limits table (partial) on SDS Tab “8.1 Exposure-protection”, after adding “Limestone” to the Component table on Tab “3 Composition”. Note that the original names are in the “Other name/description” column.
SDS exposure limits table, showing additional options in the “Omit” header menu to exclude rows on the generated SDS.