How do I justify to my company purchasing MSDSpro?
Finally, just when you have spent several months evaluating many different MSDS packages, the final MSDS vendor has been selected, and all of the paperwork is in order. Then one or several people “upstream” strike down the request for MSDS improvement monies. This happens all too often in companies where the MSDS committee does not present the MSDS problem effectively enough to convince upper management that monies should be allocated to alleviate the paper MSDS burdens. It’s not that they did not effectively present the problem, but didn’t present it in financial terms to justify sometimes costly improvements. Often, this is due to the inability of the evaluator or committee to quantify the overall cost of managing MSDS. A simple formula is to add up how many hours are spent on MSDS management in any given week. This could be the sum of photocopying, updating by hand, calling manufacturers, training employees, searching the Internet, receiving faxes, etc. Then take that number and mul
