Meeting Global Safety Standards with Specialist and Technical Translations

John Hogg, a former winner of the Queen’s Award for Industry, is a leading manufacturer of solvent soluble dyes and marker chemicals for the international petroleum industry. The company’s dyes and markers help their clients to meet various international fiscal requirements, comply with regulations drawn up by national or regional authorities, and protect their products from fuel tax fraud, counterfeiting and smuggling.

With the company’s headquarters in Manchester, they have production facilities in the UK and Asia. Over the past 30 years, John Hogg has exported to over 70 countries.

John Hogg required the services of a translation agency to supply translations of their DYEGUARD® and SUDAN® Material Safety Data Sheet. This particular multilingual project demanded the ability to offer accurate and reliable translation of highly technical chemicals industry concepts and terminology. The data sheet required translation into German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese.

AST put together a team of native speaker translators, as well as in-house project managers. They worked closely with the client’s team, designing a workflow to ensure efficient and consistent translation. It was important that each translation complied with the CLP Regulations (Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances), followed guidance on the Compilation of Safety Data Sheets, and used the standardised risk and safety, and hazard and precaution phrases. As an additional safeguard, AST appointed a specialist translator who had previously worked in the Chemical/Dye manufacturing industry as an advisor to this project.

This project made use of the benefits offered by Translation Memory, which collected standardised phrases to ensure that preferred wordings for each language were adopted in each document. This Translation Memory is now ready for future projects with John Hogg. Also preferred sources of approved terminology were used by the team of translators, again ensuring the most consistent and precise translation would be achieved.