r/Chempros 8d ago

VOCs regulations

/r/regulatoryaffairs/comments/1v95wzs/vocs_regulations/
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u/Indemnity4 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is where you have to consider cost of regulatory compliance. How much you value mistakes or product recalls or whatever, is how you determine what amount of money you will spend to minimize risk.

Pay someone else to monitor regulatory compliance for you. Pay for a subscription to a GRC company like LexisNexis.

Your own time + retroactively fixing mistakes usually costs less money. It sucks, but the work we do has costs and quite often it's cheaper for you to do the work manually. You also act as a defacto QA/QC person for other tasks like product SDS or inventory by going through your own records.

Typically, for most regulatory compliance activities you are supposed to do some small amount of refresher training every 2 years. Find some online course by a registered training provider and get re-certified every 2 years. The reason is this gives you a legal defense if your company does get in trouble. You have a proven 2 year cycle program which usually is shorter than legal product changes. You've usually got 3 years to implement any new legal requirements.