The following updates to WERCSmart are available as of the beginning of business May 18, 2021: 


Kit Registrations – Private Label Cleaning Product Kits for Target



Target Private Label Registrations that are within scope for the California Cleaning Right-to-Know regulations (SB 258) must provide more information about the product and ingredients for compliance with the regulation. 


This requirement is now being expanded to include Kits that are:


1. Directed to Target as one of the Retailers; and

2. The Kit is shown to be a Private Label registration; and

3. The products within the Kit registration (Child Products) are 

a product type within scope for the California regulation.


When creating a Kit registration in WERCSmart, should the three (3) conditions above be met, you will be notified of the requirement to revise the Child Product(s) in the kit to ensure participation in the California SB 258 regulation. 


You will need to update the affected Child Product(s) registrations that may, or may not, individually be directed to Target. Within the Child Product(s) registration, you will need to indicate participation in the additional data surrounding the California Cleaning Right-to-Know program.






1.    Product Type

  •  Product Information

    • California Cleaning Product Option


Once the Child Product(s) is updated to include the additional data required under the regulation, you will send the registration to UL. You may then resume creation of the Kit Registration and send to UL.


Existing Kit registrations that are Private Label to Target and have one or more Child Product(s) within scope for the Cleaning Product regulation, will encounter Recertification upon UPC edits or Forwarding.




DATA TIER CONSENT FOR RESTRICTED CHEMICAL PROGRAMS


With this release to WERCSmart we welcome two new Retailers to the PurView program. WERCSmart users will need to review the Retail Partner area to revised and save the Data Tier Consent for each of the latest programs. 


As is standard practice, upon the 4th sign in to WERCSmart if the retailer programs have not been saved in the Retail Partner area, you will be required to finalize the consent before you are able to work on registrations.


Staples


The retailer is asking, for National and Private Label brands, Tiers 2.1, 2.2 and 4.1 consent.

Product Categories are:


•    Articles

  • Registrations that do not collect ingredient-specific data


•    Enhanced Articles

  •  Formulated registrations that are lithium batteries or beverages


•    Formulated

  • Cleaning Supplies 

  • Home Improvement

  • Over the Counter

  • Stationery


Meijer


The retailer is asking, for National and Private Label brands, Tiers 2.1, 2.2, 3 and 4.1 consent.

Product Categories are:


•    Formulated

  • Cleaning Supplies

  • Health & Beauty


3rd-Pary Mixtures, Blends, Formulas


The Sustainability Information will be revised to include the two new Retailers.


What's Coming in 2021


Document Reader


WERCSmart Customers will have the possibility to supply a GHS Safety Data Sheet (SDS) early in the registration so that data may be obtained from the uploaded document and imported into areas of the WERCSmart registration. This would include data found within Sections 2, 3 and 9 of the SDS. 


Portfolio Viewer


A new tool is being developed that will use your account’s WERCSmart data and supply information to you about the assessment data for your product catalog. Additionally, some Private Label reports will be available for review as well concerning your product performance at certain retailers. Using this tool, you will be able to see the waste classification information and other assessment data to allow you to increase management capabilities of your portfolio.



Home Page Revisions


We will be revising the Home Page to include contact information for our Agency customers, contact for General Support, as well as “at a glance” subscription statuses. Removal of the Product Information graphic is being removed as this was not an actionable area.


In addition, the filter specific to Canceled registrations has been moved to the “More Filters” area.



Suspended Registration Reminders


In our hectic schedules, by early morning our “to-do” lists have gone by the wayside. Many times, the daily list will include follow-up and completion of items that may be suspended during the assessment process. Over time, we tend to forget about them as our daily priorities shift.


UL will be supplying email reminders and more filters on the Home Page My Product table to further help you in managing your workload. Reminders for outstanding suspended registrations will be provided at time of suspension, 60, 90, and 100 Days.


When a suspension reaches 120 days without any updates or resubmissions, the product registration will automatically be archived and cannot be reinstated. Within the My Products table, when a registration is suspended, there will be an option to extend the suspension time to reduce instances of automatic archiving of the registration as we all know sometimes there are internal dependencies to getting information that are outside of our control.






 – The WERCSmart Team at UL