ChemMatrix - New Zealand’s Digital Hazardous Substance Compliance Platform for Safer, Smarter Businesses

ChemMatrix is a digital hazardous substance compliance platform designed specifically for New Zealand farms, trades, and industrial workplaces.

It helps farmers, business owners and operators understand what chemicals and dangerous goods they are using, how to store them safely, how to meet WorkSafe and HSWA requirements, and how to reduce the risk of injury, illness, environmental contamination, and regulatory penalties.

From fuel and agrichemicals to industrial cleaners, sanitisers, and asbestos in old buildings, ChemMatrix brings all your hazardous substance compliance into one clear, practical, easy-to-use system.

No jargon. No paperwork overload. Just straight answers and legal certainty.

The simple takeaway (this is the bit to remember)

• Labels changed
• Rules did not
• Only suppliers had deadlines
• Workplace duties stay the same
• GHS and HSNO work side by side

If you store, use, or handle chemicals: Learn the new symbols, keep your SDS, and follow the same safety controls as before

Why this matters for real people

For Farmers, Homeowners, Tradies, Small businesses, This means:

• You don’t need to panic
• You don’t need to rewrite everything
• You just need clarity, not compliance gymnastics

Platforms like ChemMatrix exist specifically to handle this overlap — translating labels, storing SDS, and helping people understand what actually applies to them, not what sounds scary on paper.