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A central part of chemical management work is ensuring that employees always have access to the right information about the chemicals they work with. It's about safety, about complying with legal requirements, and about creating peace of mind in everyday work, both as a preventive measure and if an accident does happen. Simply having the information available isn't enough; it also needs to be easy to reach, right at the moment it's needed.
What is Open Access?
Open Access is a feature in iChemistry that provides open access to products, safety data sheets, safety sheets and WPI documents, without requiring your own logged-in user account in the system. You create a QR code for a specific department or workplace, print it out and display it visibly where the task is carried out or where the products are stored. By scanning the QR code with an ordinary phone camera, you get direct access to exactly the information that belongs to that department.
In addition to the QR code, you can also copy a URL to the same information, making it possible to access it from a computer, for example on an internal intranet, in the same simple, login-free way.
What is the purpose of Open Access?
The purpose of Open Access is to remove the barriers that can otherwise stand in the way of quick access to important safety information. Because no login is required, everyone at the workplace, whether or not they have a user account in iChemistry, can access the information within seconds. This makes the feature especially valuable in urgent situations, but also in everyday work, where every extra step can otherwise become a barrier to the information actually being used.
Another important benefit is that the information is always kept up to date. If the chemical list for a department changes, the information that the QR code or the related URL leads to is updated automatically, without needing to print a new code or share a new link. This means you can rely on the QR code or URL always showing current information.
How to generate QR code to Open Access
1. Click on Home, Menu or Tools
2. Choose "Open Access"
3. Click on "Create"
4. Select department by the department icon button. QR Code name will automatically be filled according to the department you choose. Add a description if you want to add some other information, this will be visible in the list.
5. Click on "Create"
NOTE: If you create a QR code from a department with sub-departments, Open Access will show the sub-departments' products as well.
6. Select what department you want to print by checking the box next to the name. You can select one or several.
7. The menu button "Print" will light up, click on it to generate the QR code to a PDF.
How to generate URL link to Open Access
Do the same steps as above 1-6. But click on "Copy URL" instead.
URL links can be used if you do not plan to use your smartphone to view the products, i.e. don't need to have QR codes.
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