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Frequently Asked Questions
Please remember to pair the scanner with your computer/laptop/tablet/phone etc. before starting the inventory reconciliation process. Follow the scanner instructions to pair them.
All group members can reconcile the group's inventory.
Laboratories, facilities maintenance areas, and all GT areas in which chemicals are used or stored are required to reconcile chemicals bi-annually (deadlines: June and December). EHS submits the GT Campus Inventory Report to the Board of Regents shortly after (as required by Georgia law). First responders use the GT campus inventory to assess the situation in the case of an emergency.
Scanned Items:
Attention Required (Yellow Highlight)
These items are probably scanned at the different location than originally entered to the EHSA system or may belong to a different PI. Addressing the Attention Required item is done by updating/correcting a PI, location and/or storage location. To address the issue origin, check where the small check box appears (in which column; PI, location etc.). Below, there is an example of how to address the location issue.
EXAMPLE: Current location means the location where they were entered to the system. Scanned location means a location where the items were scanned (physically scanned at the moment of reconciling your lab).
You can move physically an item to the location where it’s listed in the system (current location) and check the box on the “current location”. If you decide the “scanned location” is the location where this should be, check the box in the scanned location. Remember about importing the updated/corrected item after addressing the item.
Not Found (Blue Highlight)
The Not Found chemicals are not found in your chemical inventory. They might be not entered to the system OR your scanner did not read the barcode properly (partial barcodes due to fast scanning; please give a second for each scan at least), OR your scanner read the vendor barcode (all GT barcode are the 10 digits barcode, starting from “GITC” and followed by a 6 digits unique barcode).
Disposed (Grey Highlight, Red Font)
You can reactivate the found chemicals during scanning, originally marked as disposed. Click “Reactivate” button to reactivate the chemical in your inventory and confirm by clicking “Yes” in a pop up box.
Not Scanned Items
If you scanned all items in the lab and you believe the unscanned items were disposed in the past but your Group inventory was not updated at that time, highlight the unscanned item, click “Remove Unscanned” button. A pop up box appears, choose the reason of removal and click “submit”. You can highlight multiple unscanned items at once. After a pop box appears, a new column “Select for Removal” appears on the left side. Choose items to remove. You will notice the red counter in the “Remove Unscanned Items" box.
NOTE: If you find the disposed chemical in the future, you can reactivate that item in the inventory table (Inventory – “View/Add”, check “Managing a Chemical Status of your Chemical”) or reactivate at next reconciliation (see above the Disposed section). If you still have a problem with reactivating, contact EHS to help you and your Group.
Chemical inventory reconciliation for Spring 2022 will be due by Wednesday, June 8th at 11:59 PM. By this deadline, all chemical reconciliation must be entered into EHSA.
We will submit the GT campus report to Board of Regents shortly after (as required by Georgia law). First responders use our campus chemical inventory system. The data that those first responders receive is only as good as how accurate the chemical inventory information is. We strongly encourage labs to start submitting the report via EHSA as soon as possible.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding reconciliation, please do not hesitate to reach out to EHS. Please send all inquiries to ehsa@gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of TechnologyNorth Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30332Phone: 404-894-2000