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SciShield Overview

What is SciShield?

SciShield software was built by scientists, for scientists. We created a platform built specifically for the laboratory environment so EHS, Researchers, and Lab Operations could stop relying on generic solutions and focus on what matters most: safe science and their next discovery. SciShield software makes everyday challenges easier by: • Improving lab operations by automating manual tasks to reduce administrative burden. • Eliminating siloed and hazardous workplaces and labs to create safer work environments. • Driving a proactive approach with actionable, accurate data and reporting to make trusting decisions. • Providing full lab transparency with real-time updates that help you grow and scale your organization. • Ensuring confidence your lab is up-to-date on the latest training to keep your labs safer and compliant. Our robust modules are tailored and customized to fit the unique business needs of top organizations, including higher education, small to medium biotechnology, incubators, government, and pharmaceutical organizations. Our all-in-one platform helps improve laboratory safety and increase efficiency with modules, including ChemTracker & SDS, Inspection & Audits, Training LMS, Hazardous Waste, Incidents, Biological Safety, Equipment, Medical Surveillance, and Radioisotopes. Our software includes service and support, with a white-glove approach to getting your lab up and running faster. Our dedicated implementation team works with you to establish attainable timelines and navigate rollout within 6 months, with a 99.2% go-live implementation success rate. SciShield, previously known as BioRAFT, has been in business for 20 years, all made possible by our customers. Our commitment is to continue to evolve our product while providing the highest level of service.

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SciShield software was built by scientists, for scientists. We created an enterprise platform built specifically for the laboratory environment so EHS, Researchers, and Lab Operations could stop relying on generic solutions and focus on what matters most: safe science and their next discovery. SciShield software makes everyday challenges easier by: • Improving lab operations by automating manual tasks to reduce administrative burden. • Eliminating siloed and hazardous workplaces and labs to create safer work environments. • Driving a proactive approach with actionable, accurate data and reporting to make trusting decisions. • Providing full lab transparency with real-time updates that help you grow and scale your organization. • Ensuring confidence your lab is up-to-date on the latest training to keep your labs safer and compliant. Our robust modules are tailored and customized to fit the needs of unique business needs for top organizations, including higher education, small to medium biotechnology, incubators, government, and pharmaceutical organizations. Our all-in-one platform helps improve laboratory safety and increase efficiency with modules, including ChemTracker & SDS, Inspection & Audits, Training LMS, Hazardous Waste, Incidents, Biological Safety, Equipment, Medical Surveillance, and Radioisotopes. Our software includes service and support, with a white-glove approach to getting your lab up and running faster. Our dedicated implementation team works with you to establish attainable timelines and navigate rollout within 6 months. SciShield, previously known as BioRAFT, has been in business for 20 years, all made possible by our customers. Our commitment is to continue to evolve our product while providing the highest level of service.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

A comprehensive software platform that simplifies lab safety compliance without slowing down research. A complete solution that grows and scales to meet your organization where you are in the journey, regardless of the size. Our software automates repetitive tasks, lists, and spreadsheets, providing a comprehensive 360 view of your inventory, hazards, people, materials, and spaces, with robust reporting and analytics.

What is the SciShield Advantage? Our software was designed and built by our team of EHS & safety nerds, LabOps leaders, and bench researchers who understand lab requirements and everyday problems. We also continuously invest in the future with non-stop innovation and technology.

We want to help researchers and scientists spend more time working on their next great discovery instead of time on administrative burdens and safety concerns. This means EHS & Lab Ops professionals can become time-saving, safety culture heroes, including savings on insurance premiums as certified loss control.


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SciShield
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2003
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Boston, MA
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ROSHNI P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It’s user friendly and ensure lab safety and efficacy"
SciShield streamlines lab safety and compliance with robust features and centralized management
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Tom K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very useful tool for maintaning lab safety compliance."
The user dash board is designed well and allows users to get an overall complaince 'snap-shot' of their lab(s). As an EHS professsional I'm able t...
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5.0 out of 5
"Works well for our needs with outstanding customer service"
We use SciShield for our organization's safety data management, and the experience has been positive. The platform is user friendly, with an intuit...
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SciShield Demo - Chemical Inventory Management
ChemTracker & SDS helps you stay organized and eliminate storage chaos by digitizing your chemical inventory with container-level tracking in real-time.
SciShield Demo - Training LMS
Have confidence your lab and teams are up-to-date on the latest safety and hazard training.
SciShield Demo - Hazardous Waste Management
Streamline and standardize your waste pick-ups by eliminating the paperwork and time associated with manual, paper-based processes.
SciShield Demo - Inspections & Audits
Improve compliance and efficiency by automating your inspection process and frequency, with real-time reporting.
SciShield Demo - Incident Management
Reduce risk and accurately capture data in a simple way to track incidents from initial report to close.
SciShield Demo - Medical Surveillance & Occ Health
Track employee health based on job activities easier by integrating with systems you use today.
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Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about SciShield?

SciShield provides a number of valuable tools to help us manage people, places and things. It connects people with training, helps us identify and mitigate laboratory-realted risks, and helps us manage and report on our chemical inventory, which is, for us, key to compliance with building codes and local fire department codes. Our training compliance is approaching 100% due to the ability to deliver course material either synchronously or asynchronously. Lab users are increasingly using the waste and incident reporting modules, which were activated in the last six months. Customer support is phenomenal. Most queries receive acknowledgement within minutes. An internal review of the lab safety program recognized the value of SciShield in expanding the reach of EHS into labs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

From an EHS perspective, there are no downsides to using SciShield. We experenced some challenges with the inventory reconciliation process, but the SciShield team helped us to resolve the problems. Our inventory experience will lead to some recommendations on better practices for the future.

As with any application, there is a learning curve to master the features of new modules. For example, when we implemented the Incident module, we had to correlate our process to the organization of the module. But the benefit of having a central and easy way for the lab community to report incidents and near misses far outweighs the tweaks to our process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

With a small EHS staff and independent academic departments, not to mention the challenges of working with faculty, SciShield has allowed us to centralize resources and expand our reach. I now have a means to report data to senior administrators, and we are able to identify problems, such as non-compliance with PPE requirements, and address them at the lab level as well as administratively. The ChemTracker module has proved crucial in helping us comply with new hazardous chemical reporting requirements. Online courses make training more accessible and provide accurate tracking. As we have implemented additional modules, lab workers have begun to realize the benefits SciShield offers them. EHS has been able to get important and timely information about the activities in labs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SciShield?

That everything we need for compliance within our Lab Safety Program is in one place.

Fast response time from the Customer Support Team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

It would be nice to be able to update trainings more than once a year without additional charges. Lab Safety is every changing and it would be nice to make updates as needed to rather than haveing to wait a year. That being said, the SciShield Team has been accomodating in certain cases when we have had to make updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's improving our training compliance. We are able to pull useful data from the system to track trends in inspection findings and incidents. It has allowed us to go away from paper submitals for waste pick ups by utiilizing the Waste Pick-Up module. Allows us to accurately track chemical inventories and so much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about SciShield?

System can be used by PI's and researchers mostly without assistance or training immediately after setup. Learning curve is fairly short on the researcher/PI end as well. SciShield support has a short response time during business hours (26 minutes for my last request). Automatic notifications to PI's/researchers significantly reduces the need for direct email contact from EH&S. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

The system is well optimized for PI's/researchers and for normal EH&S users. For 'Power Users' in EH&S, those used to having database access, complete tracking logs, etc. it can feel a little limiting. SciShield has been responsive to support us as power users, enabling options and access that arent part of the standard EH&S access package and is working to expand the scope of that access for those that truly need it but its a work in progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

SciShield is solving three main issues for us. First its getting PI's and researchers to actually engage with the system without being pushed into doing so. The system is intuitive enough that users are performing necessary actions on their end mostly without being prompted. Second SciShield is also greatly reducing the amount of direct, individually written communications EH&S has to send. I no longer have to send emails to users and PI's about training being overdue or explain to them how to locate the trainings. Trainings are hosted on SciShield directly and the system prompts users to complete it with an included direct link. I also no longer have to remind PI's they have an outstanding assessment to address, or to verify their members list. Those prompts are handled automatically too. Finally its streamlining our inspection process. Assessment findings are prewritten, with the applicable code, reference documents, and solution already listed. They can be modified as needed but are mostly boilerplate. Its much easier to go through the assessment on an iPad and check off an issue and location and then snap a pic from within the assessment itself than it is to go back to your desk and write up a report from scratch for each assessment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SciShield?

The customer support! Beginning with their implementation team and support their customer support is outstanding. They told me "we will not let you fail" and they delivered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

Sometimes we wished we could have a custom solution for what we need but we understand the impact that could have on others and if others also wanted custom solutions. No a big deal though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Registering our labs and hazards, assigning, delivering and tracking training. Consolidating our Incident Report System. Facilitating our Medical Surveillance Program, chemical inventory system and safety inspection programs. We also are beginning to use the equipment module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about SciShield?

The things I like best are the ease of use for managing the chemical inventory and it allows us to keep easily accessible records for use when needed. We use it all the time, and it is easy to train new people on the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

I am unable to see chemicals in other labs which would be helpful during collaborations, but this may be a privacy feature or simply due to my permissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is making lab inventory simple and easy to access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SciShield?

SciShield is a game changer for laboratory safety and compliance data management. We have access to so much information with a few clicks that previously would've taken hours to collect. The team at SciShield is awesome - they are professional and wonderful to work with. Their customer service is top notch! The user interace is well designed for accessibility and everything was built with the end user experience in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

There are some features missing that I was surprised about but overall what is available outweighs those items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

SciShield is replacing an outdated IBC managment system, giving us more access to all sorts of safety and compliance data, and providing a single location for our principal investigators to perform their compliance related tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SciShield?

SciShield creates a very functional system for documenting what we do well in our Safety Program. it also helpsus highlight areas of concern to share with leadership to get their assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

They have always been helpful and quick to respond when we have had any issues crop up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scishield has solved our record-keeping problems and allows our EHS professionals to focus on the work of improving the safety outcomes in our labs. The burden Scishield relieves was crushing our ability to grow an effective program for safety in our labs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KO
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SciShield?

Integration of various systems and user friendly, customer support is fantastic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

Some of the systems could be more robust (I.e., chemtracker) to include basic features found in competitors systems, such as the ability to build and save queries, and some of the systems could integrate better with one another (I.e., chemtracker and hazardous waste) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Great way to keep track of everything, interface with the labs and integrate systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about SciShield?

Ability to capture laboratory audit data in a reasonably straightforward format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

Not all versions of software seem to have the same level of support to address periodic user issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

A source for capturing audit and chemical innentory data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about SciShield?

Single sign on integration at enterprise level

Adapted to needs in university research safety processes

Good platform uptime and reliability

Responsive and knowlegable customer service

User implementation acceptance

Easy daily usage

Additional modules avaialble Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciShield?

All these platforms are trimmed to the most likely business processes.

Platform coded standardized business processes can become outdated or less relevant over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciShield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lab registry and inspection scale of ~500-1,000

Lab worker registry scale of ~5,000

Lab worker safety training assignments/per year ~ 20,000

Hazardous chemical container registry scale 50,000-500,000

Safety and hazardous waste service requests/ per year ~ 15,000 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.