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Nine things your plan can never lock
Most software decides what to put behind a paywall by asking what people will pay for. On a compliance product that question is the wrong one, because some of what you are buying is access an employer already owes a worker. Those parts stay open on every plan — including the free one, and including an account whose subscription has lapsed. 5 of the nine rest on a federal standard; the rest are commitments we make and label as such. Eight are live today. The ninth — the self-service portal where a worker pulls their own exposure records without asking anybody — is in delivery, and it is marked as such below rather than counted as done.
Hazards, first aid, PPE and handling for every chemical in your inventory, from any device. First-aid steps for every product on the jobsite stay on the phone, even in airplane mode.
The standard requires safety data sheets to be readily accessible to employees in their work areas during each work shift. A vendor who puts that behind a payment screen has converted your compliance duty into their collections process. OSHA's own 1999 interpretation on electronic access is explicit that the electronic route is acceptable only if there is no barrier to immediate access.
The emergency screen
29 CFR 1910.38(b)
Spill, exposure and poison-control steps for the product in front of you, one tap from the scan.
An emergency action plan has to be available to employees. The moment somebody needs it is not the moment to discover that the card on file expired.
A worker's own records
In delivery29 CFR 1910.1020(e) and 1904.35
Self-service access for an employee to their own exposure and medical records, on request.
The right to see your own exposure and medical records belongs to the employee, and the employer has to provide access on request. It is not ours to sell back, and it does not lapse because a subscription did. Being straight about where this one stands: the records are held and an administrator can produce them today, and they are in every export. The self-service portal where the worker pulls them without asking anybody is in delivery, and it ships on the terms on this page — never gated, on any plan.
30-year retention on exposure records
29 CFR 1910.1020(d)(1)
Exposure records stay for the full statutory period regardless of plan, downgrade or cancellation.
The retention duration is set by the standard, not by a billing cycle. A product that deletes on cancellation would hand you a violation on the way out the door.
Full export of everything you hold
Product commitment
Every record, every attachment, any time, in full, with no ticket and no waiting period.
This one is our own commitment. It is here because holding a contractor's compliance record hostage is the single most common complaint about this category of software, and because you cannot honor a records request from data you cannot get out.
The QR scan on a container
Product commitment
Anyone who scans the label on a drum reaches the sheet for that product, with no account and no login.
A laborer standing in front of a container is not a billing event, and a subscription state is not a thing a drum knows about.
Guest links for inspectors and auditors
Product commitment
A time-limited, scoped link that lets an inspector or an insurer see what they came to see.
The day a compliance officer walks on site is the worst possible day to be told to upgrade. The link works on every plan.
Subcontractor access
Product commitment
Subcontractors you invite to a jobsite get their own accounts, free, on every plan.
A subcontractor invited by the general contractor never pays to be compliant on someone else's site, and never has to share a login to get in.
Written programs for the crew
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(4)
The HazCom program, the site safety plan and the emergency procedures, readable by the people they cover.
The written hazard communication program has to be available to employees on request. A program nobody can open is a document, not a program.
What a paywall on this list actually costs you
It is worth being concrete, because this is not a philosophical point. If a safety data sheet is unreachable during a shift, the exposure is not a software outage: it is the employer standing in front of a compliance officer explaining why the sheet was not readily accessible. The same goes for a worker asking for their own exposure record and being told the company is between plans. The bill for that conversation is never the price of the subscription.
That is why these nine are not a promotion. They are written into the product’s own pricing model as capabilities that no plan level can switch off, and the server refuses to serve a plan matrix that closes them.
Straight answers
Does this still apply if I cancel?
Yes. A canceled account keeps read access to its records, and export stays available in full. Retention of exposure records runs for the statutory period whatever your subscription is doing, because the duty is on the employer and the clock is set by the standard, not by us.
Does it apply on the free plan too?
Yes, and that is the point of the list. Free is capped on capacity — one jobsite, fifty chemicals, one admin seat — and on nothing in this list. A worker on a free account reaches a safety data sheet exactly as fast as a worker on Enterprise.
How do I verify this rather than take your word for it?
Create a free account, add one chemical, print the label, scan the QR from a phone that is not signed in, and export the whole account. That whole sequence takes a few minutes and needs no card. Anything on this page that did not behave as written would be a defect we would want reported.
Are the regulations quoted here the whole obligation?
No. They are the parts that bear on access, which is what this page is about. Hazard communication, recordkeeping and emergency planning each carry more requirements than the clauses cited here, and no software makes an employer compliant on its own. Read the standards, and treat this page as a statement about our product rather than legal advice.
The cheapest plan we sell still keeps the crew compliant
It costs nothing, it does not expire, and it needs no card. If it turns out you need a second jobsite, the plans are on one page with every number published.