Product
Safety (EHS-SAF) 
Purpose
If you produce and sell hazardous substances in your company, you must protect humans and the environment from the hazards these substances pose. You also have to observe numerous laws and regulations on hazardous substances worldwide. This SAP component helps you to handle hazardous substances safely and bring them safely onto the market, and also comply with all relevant regulations automatically.
Integration
You must have installed the following SAP components to be able to use all functions in the SAP component Product Safety:
·
Basic Data and Tools
(EHS-BD)
·
Document Management
(CA-DMS)
The SAP component
Hazardous
Substance Management (EHS-HSM) also supports you with managing hazardous
substances, with the following distinction:
· Hazardous Substance Managementsupports companies that use hazardous substances.
· Product Safety supports companies that produce hazardous substances.
Features
Product Safety also uses the following functions from the SAP component Basic Data and Tools:
·
You can edit hazardous
substance data and other data for the substances, agents, and packagings that
exist in your company in specification
management, and search
for and display them using the specification information
system.
·
You can edit EH&S
reports (such as material safety data sheets, labels, and standard operating
procedures) in report definition.
·
You can import and
export specifications,
phrases, material safety data sheets, and other documents, and manage them
after import just like all other EH&S data and reports.
Product Safety also includes the following components and functions:
· Report management supports you with the required work steps for EH&S reports from their generation to their final release. For data archiving purposes, you can save reports you no longer require with status Historical and call them at any time.
· Global Label Management supports you with entering all data for labels and then using this data to determine suitable labels in various labeling scenarios and to print them.
· Released reports are available for report shipping. Report shipping controls the processes involved in creating a report shipping order through to saving it. As well as allowing you to ship reports such as material data safety sheets automatically, you can set up automatic subsequent shipping for updated reports, for example. These are then shipped automatically if, for example, the data for specifications or phrases that is output on the reports was changed.
· The report information system enables you to search and display existing reports with status Released and Historical.
· BOM transfer supports you with creating the composition of a specification from the bill of materials for a material.