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From effective leadership to entrepreneurial spirit, Lisa Hallsworth exhibits all the characteristics one could hope for at the helm of Safety Data Sheets (SDS) management company Rillea Technologies[MF1] . Having a knack for physics in school, Hallsworth pursued a degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo, opening the door for her entry into the chemical engineering field. Now, with 32 years of industry experience, she explains the motivations behind her vision for improved chemical safety, which led to the creation of cutting-edge safety software, SDS RiskAssist.

“A lot of my time working with chemical safety was spent … looking at the chemicals that were being used and then looking at what various regulations within Canada and around the world had to say about those chemicals,” says Hallsworth. “And that takes a huge amount of time. [For] every different project that I worked on, I’d ask — ‘How is it safe to proceed with this project? What are we required to do by regulations? What do we know about it from research, and how do we handle the chemicals?’ And really, what I came to realize was there is a lot to chemical safety, [which] is super challenging.”