Assess and document chemical substitution
Prioritise chemicals for substitution, compare alternatives and document your decision. System suggestions provide a starting point for your assessment of suitability and overall risk.
Substitution means replacing a hazardous chemical or changing the work process to reduce risk. Compare alternatives by their hazards, likely exposure and technical suitability. Workplace Safety supports prioritisation, comparison and documentation, and alerts you to matches on hazard lists. Read about the substitution process.
What you can do
- Easily compare alternative chemicals to choose the most suitable for the job
- Get help from the system to prioritise which chemicals should be substituted
- Use AI and environmental certifications such as the Nordic Swan Ecolabel to identify safer, lower risk alternatives
- Get automatic alerts if chemicals end up on hazard lists
- See overview of substitutions made by other businesses
- Create and save detailed reports for documentation
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Frequently asked questions
How do we find and document safer alternatives when substituting?
Workplace Safety helps you prioritise chemicals for substitution and compare alternatives, with suggestions based on AI and on environmental certifications and warnings about matches on hazard lists. The suggestions are a basis for your own assessment.
How do we follow up risk assessments, measures and review deadlines?
Risk assessments can be linked to the chemical inventory, a measure can be given an owner, and the system gives an overview of review deadlines and notifies you when a review is due. The assessment must be built on how the chemical is actually used.
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