Manage Safety Data Sheets

A Safety Data Sheet (SDS) is the document your supplier provides setting out a substance’s hazards, safe handling, storage, and emergency response. Holding a current one for every hazardous substance you keep is required in every country SteadyOn supports.

Attach the sheet

1. Upload the PDF to Documents
2. Open the substance and go to its Safety Data Sheet tab
3. Link the document

Until SteadyOn has evidence of a sheet — either the document attached or an issue date recorded — the substance shows red in the register. That’s deliberate: you can’t safely handle, store, or respond to a spill of something whose data sheet you don’t hold.

Record the issue date

Enter the date from the front of the sheet. SteadyOn sets the review date five years on, which is the usual currency expectation, and warns you as it approaches.

A sheet with no date is amber, not green

If we don’t know when a sheet was issued, we can’t tell you whether it’s current — so SteadyOn shows amber rather than assuming it’s fine. Unknown currency is a real gap.

What the warnings mean

Status	What it means	What to do
🔴 No sheet held	No document attached and no issue date recorded	Ask your supplier
🔴 Out of date	Past its five-year review	Ask your supplier for the current version
🟠 Review approaching	Within 90 days	Request the current version now
🟠 No issue date	Sheet held, date unknown	Check the sheet and enter the date
🟢 Current	More than 90 days to run	Nothing

Getting a current sheet

Ask the supplier who sold you the substance — they’re generally obliged to provide one, and most publish them on their website. If you’ve changed supplier, get the sheet for the product you actually hold now rather than reusing the old one; formulations differ between manufacturers.

Where to go next

• Classify a substance — the classifications also come from the Safety Data Sheet
• Hazardous Substances