Georgia Tech adopted EHSA (OnSite Systems) as the official GT Chemical Inventory System in July 2017.

All laboratories and shops are required to enter and track their chemical inventories in EHSA. Georgia Tech practices “Cradle to Grave” chemical management: Chemicals are accounted for when they come on to Tech property, enter the lab, are used up or removed as waste, removed from Tech property by a licensed hazardous waste hauler, and disposed of or incinerated in a federally licensed facility.

All labs are required to have a person who has been trained in how to use EHSA and is assigned to keep track the lab’s chemicals which includes entering and removing chemicals from the inventory and completing the semiannual inventories.

Before a new chemical can be used in the lab it must first be labeled with a EHSA barcode label (provided by EHS) and entered into the EHSA application (by the lab users).  Chemicals that are used in large volume (high container turn over or refillable bulk containers) may be labeled with a EHSA barcode label placed on a green background label (this is referred to as “green labeling”).  Green labels should be affixed to the shelf where the container(s) is normally stored, or in the case of gas cylinders, to the wall above where the cylinder is held. If this is not possible, the green labels may be placed in a notebook kept near by in the lab, but must be visible to lab inspectors.