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CCS specializes in environmental, health and safety compliance, chemical security, and hazardous
material management services for academic institutions, federal agencies, and private industry.
Our Relational Chemical & Product Database (R–CPD) is the most comprehensive database available.
Our Chemical Compliance Analytical System (C–CAS) software is a unique, holistic capability that
generates hundreds of compliance reports, diverse chemical usage analyses, and a wide array of
safety and health assessments. Our customized turnkey implementation and maintenance services not
only maximize benefits from our R–CPD and C–CAS, but alternatively provide integration with client
pre-existing databases and other software options (e.g., HSMS, EMIS, HICS, EIM, etc.). CCS clients
can achieve pollution prevention, hazardous materials procurement and waste minimization, EPCRA and
RCRA compliance, and "environmentally preferable" product substitutions, all within our single,
time-tested system. The net effects of CCS hazardous materials management services are more creative
and cost effective solutions to complex problems, and “worry-free” compliance. This system has evolved
from successful, customized applications for academic, industrial, and governmental clients.
CCS can provide information acquisition, or other labor support services, required to implement or maintain a hazardous materials management system. CCS clients can achieve pollution prevention, hazardous materials minimization, EPCRA compliance, and "environmentally preferred" product substitutions within our single, time-tested system. |
The R–CPD
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R–CPD is a comprehensive hazardous materials repository consisting of an
estimated 75,000,000 data elements for more than 210,000 chemicals and 350,000 products compiled
from over 1,000 sources. This relational database is highly purified and has unique cross-functionality:
a single source for materials management, environmental/ safety/ health, regulatory and security
information. R–CPD is composed of the Master Chemical Reference Data,
the Master Product Reference Data, and the Munition Items
Disposition Action System [MIDAS] Index, a government-owned database).R–CPD
is used to quickly create the customized product and chemical databases used in our environmental
management suite (C–CHEMS), our Homeland Security Suite
(HoSS), and our Munitions Analytical Compliance Suite
(MACS) of software modules.
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C–CAS
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Our unique software modules were developed to effectively track material movement and simultaneously
maximize analyses from information in the R–CPD. The concept is straightforward: maintain real-time
inventories and query this information against an intelligent data source. C–CAS is a 32-bit Windows
application using state-of-the-art Client/Server architecture with 32-bit clients and ODBC SQL server
support. It has open deployment with two-way data replication. C–CAS contains a secure auditing
subsystem, layer inventory processing, bar code scanning and document imaging support. It offers
an open reporting interface which allows easy upgrades for evolving compliance report requirements.
C–CAS contains a very creative communications module that provides a two-way information deployment capability. This gateway allows for the sharing of key information. First, this module enables the site to communicate data upward: either new data directed to the centralized data maintenance center for verification and/or elaboration, or report tabulations directed upward through the organizational hierarchy for more comprehensive compilations. Second, this module enables higher centers to communicate (often standardized) data downward: either from the centralized data maintenance center to the organization, or analytical results downward through the organizational hierarchy. Leveraging information and technology eliminates redundant database construction, saves significant dollars, and is critical to the success of implementing hazardous materials management systems across broad organizations. Similarly, this communication module allows parent organizations to "roll-up" information and analyze positive and/or negative hazardous material usage trends within their subordinate sites. An accurate, real-time inventory, queried against our intelligent database, can generate over 400 chemical usage, site distribution, compliance and/or safety/health reports. The report generation capabilities of C–CAS support procurement, regulatory compliance, environmental, safety and health professionals simultaneously. Reports can reflect data concerning entire organizations, or can be filtered down to an individual building, a specific department, or a single room. The customized inventory and chemical/product reference databases enable C–CAS to perform four types of analyses. First, materials management analyses facilitate minimized procurement and waste. Second, regulatory impact analyses provide location- and product-specific awareness for hundreds of local, state and federal compliance issues. Third, environmental, health, and safety analyses provide a quantitative basis to identify pollution prevention opportunities and minimize worker and environmental risks. And finally, automated environmentally preferable product analyses establish a mechanism to pre-screen thousands of products, and thereby eliminate risks and pollutants before they are acquired. No other available system offers this breadth of analytical and control capability. BACK |
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MSDS Images & Indexes
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This file contains images with extensive analytical indexes for over 75,000 MSDSs and access to an additional
300,000 MSDSs. Our MSDS images represent over 90,000 products. The MSDS Index corrects the 15-30% errors typically
found in MSDSs. A centralized MSDS image file with indexes fulfills all OSHA compliance access requirements.
This file not only represents a large potential labor maintenance savings for the client, but also assures that
the MSDS file correlates with the inventory, and that MSDSs remain current.
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Pharmacy Development
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Our information acquisition capability includes an experienced staff familiar with quantitative
baseline inventory and container labeling, HazMart or Pharmacy operation, MSDS acquisition and
indexing, technical data research, and chemical rating protocols.
CCS SOPs for each of these services have been developed through years of experience with a wide array of client circumstances. Both manual and computerized strategies have been integrated into highly efficient, minimal cost and maximal utility information acquisition capabilities that significantly accelerate implementation of a holistic hazardous materials management system. BACK |
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Chemical Ratings
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The CCS chemical rating system utilizes a time-tested SOP and automates “green,” or “environmentally preferable,”
chemical, process, product and munition analyses. This numeric, complete hazard rating system provides a basis for
quantitatively defining acute and chronic health, air/water/soil environmental impacts, and fire, corrosivity,
radioactivity, reactivity/explosivity special hazards associated with more than 210,000 chemicals. These ratings
form the basis of our “green,” security, chemical and reactive analytical capabilities.
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Hazardous Materials Inventories
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In order to maintain compliance and remain profitable, a quantitative Facility Materials Accounting
system must start with an accurate baseline inventory. The inventory must account for every container
in each building and room, and must assure that all required container information is properly recorded.
An inventory should also utilize a standardized protocol that includes uniform employee education. CCS
has many years experience in conducting quantitative baseline inventories for academic, industrial and
governmental organizations. Consequently, CCS can develop an inventory strategy to suit a client’s unique
situation, and provide the control necessary to operate at peak efficiency.
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Analytical Reports
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An accurate, real-time inventory, queried against an intelligent database, can generate over 100
chemical usage, site distribution, and compliance and/or safety/health reports. The report generation
capabilities of C–CAS support procurement, regulatory compliance, environmental, safety and health
professionals simultaneously. Reports can reflect data concerning entire organizations, or can be
filtered down to an individual building, a specific department, or a single room.
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Cross-Reference Dictionary & Regulatory Lists
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The Chemical Cross Reference Dictionary contains 550,000 records of purified CAS numbers and their associated
synonyms. This file facilitates accurate and complete materials management data searches and product substitution
research. The Regulatory List of Lists file is comprised of over 650 international, federal, state and
local regulated chemical lists and their associated data, as well as numerous CCS compiled lists
(e.g., incompatible chemicals, hazard classes, etc.). Our modules compare a single chemical inventory
file against these lists and generate a multitude of regulatory reports utilized by logistics,
environmental/safety/ health, and chemical security professionals, as well as first responders.
Redundant data management across departments is eliminated, resulting in significant labor savings
to the client and accelerated systems implementation.
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Product Substitutions
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A central component to Pollution Prevention (P2), waste minimization and P2 Opportunity Assessments
initiatives is the process of product and/or chemical substitution. Within this process, a less
hazardous material is substituted for a more hazardous material that is currently being used.
Several considerations are reviewed during this process including acute and chronic health considerations, waste disposal costs and impact, storage stability and incompatibility with other products, and regulatory impact. CCS can conduct a baseline inventory of materials that are currently being used at a facility, identify the processes the materials are used in, and determine the usage amounts. This data is cross-referenced against The R–CPD with reports generated and analyzed by CCS technicians. A written recommendation outlines product substitution opportunities. BACK |
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Chemical Purchasing Policy Development
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CCS has worked with organizations to establish effective chemical purchasing policies to control
hazardous chemical over-purchasing. A baseline inventory of hazardous chemicals and products is
conducted and the data is analyzed. Certain materials may be disposed of and, due to their hazardous
nature, banned from re-introduction into the facility.
Certain products are designated as controlled. They may be present, but the use, handling and storage of these chemicals are carefully monitored. Finally, some products are simply accepted as non-hazardous. This (A)ccepted, (B)anned, and (C)ontrolled (ABC) policy, together with an effective materials accounting tracking program, greatly improves the overall safety of an organization, while saving substantial amounts of money. BACK |
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Centralized Data Repositories
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C–CAS contains a very creative communications module, which can be deployed by the client. This
gateway allows for the sharing of essential information between the "parent" organization
and subordinate sites. Leveraging information and technology eliminates redundant database construction,
saves significant dollars, and is critical to the success of implementing hazardous materials management
systems across broad organizations. Similarly, this communication module allows parent organizations to
"roll-up" information and analyze positive and/or negative hazardous material usage trends
within their subordinate sites.
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Pollution Prevention (P2) Opportunity Assessments
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CCS offers a tiered P2 Opportunity Assessment program that includes automated analyses and
standardized manual evaluations integrated into a seamless, efficient process. First, technicians
automatically compare hazardous materials inventories to the CCS prescribed List of Regulated
Chemicals Lists. This analysis provides a by location prioritized list of hazardous chemicals and
products containing the specified hazardous chemical as a component. Second, experienced technicians
can complete an on-site evaluation of each location and process that utilizes one, or more, of the
prioritized hazardous chemicals/products.
P2 Survey Forms and Process Flow Charts are completed for each process that utilizes one of the prioritized hazardous materials during this phase. Third, an automated evaluation of the client’s inventory, using the extensive Index of Commercial Product Components in the R–CPD, identifies alternative products that are also used in the process under evaluation. The product with the least hazardous components is identified in this analysis. Finally, results from the automated analyses and standardized manual evaluations are compiled on a P2 Opportunity Assessment Form. BACK |
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