Hazardous Substance Management (EHS-HSM)

Purpose

If you use hazardous substances in your company, you must protect your employees and the environment from the hazards that these substances cause. You also have to observe numerous rules and regulations worldwide. This SAP component supports you with the safe handling of hazardous substances and automatic compliance with regulations.

Integration

You must have installed the following components of the SAP component Environment, Health and Safety ( EH&S ) to be able to use all functions of Hazardous Substance Management :

Product Safety also supports you with managing hazardous substances, but with the following differences:

Hazardous Substance Management supports companies that use hazardous substances.
Product Safety supports companies that produce hazardous substances.

Features

Hazardous Substance Management mainly uses functions from the components Basic Data and Tools , Product Safety , and Industrial Hygiene and Safety . These include the following functions:

You can edit hazardous substance data and other data for the substances that occur in your company in specification management , and search for and display it using the specification information system .
You can edit work areas and patterns in work area management and link them with objects in Organizational Management .
You can edit agents in exposure management and assess risks and create hazardous substance inventories in risk assessment .
You can edit EH&S reports (such as material safety data sheets, labels, and standard operating procedures) in report definition , release them in report management , dispatch them using report shipping , and search for and display them using the report information system .
You can import material safety data sheets and other documents from your vendors and manage them like all other EH&S reports.

These functions are located in the Environment, Health and Safety menu under the Hazardous Substance Management node. You will find the documentation for these functions in the respective SAP components.

In addition, hazardous substance management includes functions that make it easier for you to compile the reports prescribed by the U.S. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) (see SARA Reports ).