Atrion’s Regulatory Expertise

Atrion prides itself in being a true regulatory compliance partner. Over the past 20 years, Atrion has nurtured a cooperative relationship between industry individuals, groups, its clients and other industry businesses. As a result, Atrion is able to deliver invaluable solutions, which permits our clients to address complex and dynamic regulatory requirements while ensuring their products’ brand image remains untarnished in the marketplace.

The Challenges of a Global Marketplace

The planet is getting smaller as a result of the globalization of markets. Yet the reality is that despite globalization, compliance and hazard communication challenges remain complex. Individual countries continue to maintain their sovereignty, therefore, specific legal obligations, languages and culture, still must be considered when conducting business internationally. Those companies that respect and adhere to these differences will be successful in entering these different markets.

Our Global Network of Experts… Your Advantage

Atrion’s vast network across the globe helps EH&S professionals, not only understand but also master the local interpretations and applications of regulations. This then allows Atrion to embed the acquired knowledge in our solutions. In turn, our embedded knowledge gives you a competitive advantage, by allowing you to easily enter new markets despite large regulatory hurdles.

Walking the Extra Mile

Atrion’s expertise stretches beyond simply creating the content to fuel our compliance products. Our experts are also involved in ensuring ‘continuous compliance’ with dynamic regulations. This is especially important in today’s environment where most country’s regulations are going through heavy transformations with the advent of GHS and REACH.

For example, REACH is leading to fundamental changes on how companies need to deal with the raw materials they use, the products they produce, and the use of those products down the chain to the final consumer. GHS, the globally harmonized system for classifying and communicating hazards, on the other hand will also have significant impacts. It is said that every MSDS / SDS will need to be re-written in the next 5 years to accommodate GHS. Atrion is able to be there, every step of the way, monitoring and adapting our content, so that you can remain in compliance through the complexity of these changes.

Atrion’s Expert Community

Atrion’s spirit of collaboration extends from our software and service solutions to various forums, all of which are made readily available to our clients:

• Regulatory User Group: Focused on regulatory interpretations and ongoing changes to legislation
  • Atrion Task Forces: an open forum where Atrion clients, exchange information and best practices tips, while working together in order to gain consensus on legal interpretations for complex regulations.

• Atrion User Group: a customer driven, annual meeting, where Atrion personnel and clients meet face-to-face over the course of several days, and share opinions on the latest compliance challenges.

• Atrion Network of Language Translators and Validators: consists of EH&S field experts in countries around the world. Together, these experts ensure the proper translation of all phrases used on labels and safety documents generated by Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution.

Atrion’s Regulatory Expertise - Key Benefits:

• Opens a company’s access to different markets by providing all tools needed to respect different laws of many countries.
• Peace of mind, with continuous compliance provided ‘in a box’
• Strength in numbers, by being part of a large community of experts, benefit from the common interpretation of legally gray areas, and gain credibility in the face of authorities.