Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for managing and maintaining laboratory chemical records to assist organizations in improving laboratory safety, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation, namely, by providing software-based functionality for automating inventory tracking, reporting, notification, and data access and physical security, related to chemicals, chemical containers, gas cylinders, select agents, biologicals, radioactive materials, isotopes, and maintenance chemicals, and for enhancing laboratory inventory security, production of chemical anomaly reports, creation of audit trails of container movement, and for tracking personal injury incidents, responsibilities and hazards relating to laboratory inventory, activities and processes