REACH compliance made simple on your construction site

As a contractor, you’re responsible for protecting your workers from hazardous substances. Cobuilder Collaborate uses the information from products’ digitised safety data sheets (SDS) in your project and automatically checks every product against hazardous substances included in regulations such as REACH, so you know exactly what’s on your site and can act before it becomes a problem.

Construction products such as adhesives, sealants, paints and coatings often contain chemicals that can harm health or the environment. REACH is the EU and EEA regulation that governs these chemicals. Its name stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals and in Norway it applies through the REACH Regulation (REACH-forskriften).

In plain terms, REACH decides which substances are banned, which are restricted and which demand special care, and it makes companies responsible for knowing what’s in the products they use and handling them safely.

The challenge is that all of this information lives inside safety data sheets (SDS): long documents, one for every product, that also change over time. On a project with hundreds of products, checking each one by hand is close to impossible.

Cobuilder Collaborate does the checking for you. The safety data sheets from manufacturers are digitised in the platform, so the substances inside every product become readable data instead of text buried in a PDF. Rather than reading each sheet by hand, you get a clear, always-current overview of every chemical in your project and whether it meets the requirements.

Chemical safety isn’t only an office task. Collaborate turns your project’s chemical list into a QR code poster you can print and put up on site. Anyone can scan it with a phone and open an always-up-to-date page showing every chemical registered on the project.

• See hazardous substances the moment they appear, before they reach the people handling them.
• Skip the manual reading of safety data sheets, because the checking is automatic.
• Give every worker instant access to chemical safety information through a simple QR code.
• Document compliance with REACH and Norwegian requirements across the whole project.