ICPE compliance · France

Every placement is checked before the drum goes down.

ChemTrack tests each proposed storage decision against chemical compatibility, physical separation and zone capacity, then builds the DREAL documentation from the same record. Made for the roughly 20,000 mid-size ICPE sites that still run their chemical inventory on spreadsheets.

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Placement check Site FR-0142 · 14:32

Acetone CAS 67-64-1 · H225 · Flam. Liq. 2 200 Linto zone B-2

Chemical compatibilityOxidisers already stored in B-2 CLP-INC-01

Physical separationDistance to the nearest zone holds SEP-OK

Zone capacityProjected fill 62% of 1,600 L CAP-OK

Blocked Acetone may not be placed with oxidisers. Rule CLP-INC-01, from SDS section 10.5 and CLP regulation 1272/2008.

Nearest compliant zone A-1 · Flammables 75% of capacity · rubrique 4331

Answer returned in under a second Written to the register · operator M-07

The check as the product will run it. The site, the substance and the zones shown here are an example.

The problem

The paperwork moved. The process didn't.

A mid-size ICPE site keeps its chemical inventory in a spreadsheet and its safety data sheets in a binder. Compatibility is checked from memory, at the moment a drum is set down. Inspection files are rebuilt by hand, from scattered sources, in the weeks before a DREAL visit.

Three post-Lubrizol arrêtés have since raised the documentation standard: the September 2020 action plan, the September 2021 prescriptions for flammable liquid storage, and the June 2025 text for rubrique 1510 warehouses, in force since 1 January 2026. Inspection pressure rose with it. The manual process has not moved, and the gap between what is required and what a single HSE manager can produce by hand keeps widening.

0site inspections carried out by the ICPE inspectorate in 2024

0rise in the national inspection rate since the Lubrizol fire

0of French logistics stock affected by the June 2025 arrêté on rubrique 1510

0sites under the autorisation and enregistrement regimes, 2024

The three arrêtés that set today's documentation standard. Each one adds sites, substances and paperwork.

Sources: Ministère de la Transition Écologique, Bilan de l'action de l'inspection des installations classées 2024 (May 2025) — ecologie.gouv.fr · Arrêtés of 24/09/2020, 22/09/2021 and 12/06/2025 — legifrance.gouv.fr · INERIS / AIDA, ICPE key figures — aida.ineris.fr

Where we fit

The middle has no software.

The top of the French market is covered. Upper-tier Seveso sites run enterprise EHS suites with six-figure implementations. Large industrial groups buy specialist platforms with long deployments and dedicated EHS staff.

Below them sit roughly 20,000 mid-size ICPE facilities with one HSE manager, a spreadsheet, and the same regulator. No product is built for them. That is the ring ChemTrack is built for — a segment to convert, not a share to win.

702 sites Seveso upper tier. Enterprise EHS suites, in-house compliance teams.
2,000–4,000 Large industrial groups. Specialist platforms, multi-month deployments.
~20,000 Mid-size ICPE sites. Excel, paper, individual knowledge. ChemTrack's segment.

French chemical storage by segment. The outer ring is where we are building.

How it works

Three checks, one verdict, one rule to point at.

When an operator registers a placement, the rule engine runs the proposed substance against everything already in the zone and in the zones next to it. The verdict comes back at the point of action, with the rule that produced it.

The engine is deterministic. It reads four public sources — the safety data sheet, INRS classifications, INERIS technical guidance, and the prescriptions attached to the zone's rubrique — and applies them as explicit rules. Nothing is predicted. Every verdict traces to a rule, and every rule traces to a source an inspector can open.

Check 01

Chemical compatibility

The substance is compared against every neighbour in the zone on CLP hazard classes and the reactivity data in section 10 of each safety data sheet.

Check 02

Physical separation

Minimum distances and retention requirements are applied per hazard category, following the prescriptions attached to the zone's rubrique.

Check 03

Zone capacity

The projected volume is measured against the authorised quantity for the zone and for the hazard class it belongs to.

Calibrated conservatively. A false positive costs a review. A false negative costs an incident. A safe placement may be sent to the HSE manager for confirmation. An unsafe one is never quietly approved.

Edge cases are flagged, not guessed. Incomplete safety data sheets, unusual hazard combinations and conflicting classification sources go to human review with the conflict shown, rather than being resolved automatically.

Outcome 01

Cleared

All three checks pass. The placement proceeds and the entry goes to the register with the rules that cleared it.

Outcome 02

Review

A rule is close to its limit, or the zone is filling. The operator continues only after the HSE manager confirms.

Outcome 03

Blocked

An incompatibility or an authorised quantity is breached. The placement stops and the nearest compliant zone is offered.

Outcome 04

Flagged to a human

The safety data sheet is incomplete, or two sources disagree. The engine does not resolve it. It shows the conflict.

Compatibility check Example site

1 · Substance to place

2 · Quantity

3 · Destination zone

The rules are real. The site is invented — six substances, five zones. On your facility the same engine runs against the substances and zones you declare.

Architecture

Three layers, one verdict

A rule base that holds what the law requires, an engine that applies it to a single proposed placement, and a register that keeps the proof. Each layer feeds the next, and every answer can be traced back through all three.

Layer 01

Rule base

Hazard classes, incompatibility pairs, separation distances and zone prescriptions, written down as rules a machine can execute. Built from public sources, not from a vendor's private judgement.

CLP 1272/2008 SDS sections 7 and 10 INRS INERIS Rubriques 1510 · 4331 · 4734

Layer 02

Verification engine

Three checks run against every proposed placement: chemical compatibility, physical separation, zone capacity. Deterministic — no scoring, no inference, no probability attached to a hazard.

Compatibility Separation Capacity Every verdict cites its rule

Layer 03

Register and reporting

Substance, zone, rules applied, sources read, decision, time, operator — written once and never rewritten. The DREAL pack is generated from that record rather than assembled from memory.

Immutable audit trail DREAL pack Substance register Proactive alerts

The life of a single placement

Declare

The substance enters the register with its safety data sheet and CLP class.

Propose

The operator picks a zone on a tablet, while the drum is still on the forklift.

Check

Three rules run against what the zone already holds and how full it is.

Verdict

Cleared, review or blocked, with the rule and the source that produced it.

Alternative

A blocked placement returns the nearest compliant zone, not a dead end.

Record

The decision and its evidence go to the register. The report is already written.

The platform

One record. Two people who need it.

The operator needs a yes or a no while standing in the aisle. The HSE manager needs an inspection file that holds up. Both read from the same register, so the report is never reconstructed after the fact — it is already there.

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Substances tracked412

Open compatibility flags3

Zones above 90% capacity2

Last DREAL pack3 days ago

Open flags awaiting an HSE decision
Substance	Zone	Rule	Raised	Status
Acetone · IBC 067	B-2 · Oxidisers	CLP-INC-01	2 h ago	Blocked
Sulfuric acid 96% · drum 214	D-4 · Bases	SEP-01	6 h ago	Review
Toluene · pallet 31	A-1 · Flammables	CAP-02	Yesterday	Review

The interface we are building, drawn with sample data. Development runs through H2 2026, with the first pilots at the end of the year.

Four modules

The compliance loop, closed end to end.

One record per substance: identity and CAS number, CLP classification, quantity, zone, arrival date, supplier, and the source safety data sheet. Every change is versioned with a timestamp and a user. The spreadsheet and the binder stop being the source of truth.

The three checks run against the zone and its neighbours the moment a placement is registered. The verdict names the rule, the substances involved, and the sources consulted — a record an inspector can follow without an explanation from us.

Inventories by hazard class and by zone, compatibility matrices, zoning maps with capacity against regulatory limits, rubrique threshold calculations, and a compliance summary with verification timestamps — generated from the live register, formatted for the arrêtés of 2020, 2021 and 2025.

A zone approaching its capacity threshold for a hazard class. An unresolved flag. A substance past its expiry date. A regulatory update affecting one of the site's rubriques. Alerts reach the HSE manager in the dashboard and by email, with escalation rules the manager sets.

Data

Your register stays in Europe

A compliance register holds what a site stores, in what quantity and where. That is sensitive industrial data, and it is handled as such: hosted in the European Union, isolated per client, encrypted at rest and in transit, and written to an audit trail that cannot be edited after the fact.

EU hosting · OVHcloud or Scaleway Per-client isolation AES-256 at rest TLS 1.3 in transit RGPD by design Immutable audit trail

Why ChemTrack

Six things the market does not offer this segment

The tools that exist are built for the top of the market, and they behave like it: enterprise pricing, long deployments, and a record written after the fact. ChemTrack is built the other way round.

Built for the middle

Enterprise EHS suites are scoped and priced for upper-tier Seveso sites. Below them sit roughly 20,000 mid-size ICPE facilities running on spreadsheets. That segment is the whole point.

The check comes before the drum goes down

Most systems record what was stored. ChemTrack tests the decision at the point of action, while the pallet is still on the forklift and the mistake still costs nothing.

Deterministic, not predictive

No scoring, no model confidence, no probability attached to a hazard. Every verdict maps to a written rule and the public source it came from, which is what an inspector asks for.

Conservative by calibration

A safe placement may be sent to review. An unsafe one is never quietly approved. Where the sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved by guesswork.

The register is the product

Compliance documentation is not a file assembled the week the inspector calls. It is the by-product of checks that have already been made, logged as they happened.

French framework first

Built on the rubriques, the arrêtés and the format the DREAL expects, rather than translated from a compliance model designed for another country.

Who it is for

One system, three ways in

The single site proves the product and pays for it. Multi-site groups carry the scale. Everything below is what we are building towards, in that order.

Single site

Mid-size ICPE facilities

Sites under autorisation or enregistrement with a real chemical inventory, an HSE manager wearing several hats, and no software between the operator and the shelf.

A verdict before the placement, not a report after the audit
The DREAL pack generated from the register, in one click
Live in weeks, without an integration project

~20,000Sites in the target segment

Q4 2026First pilot deployments

Multi-site

Industrial groups

Several ICPE sites under one roof of responsibility, each with its own rubriques, its own zones and its own way of keeping the record.

One register and one rule base across every site
Group-level view of open flags and zones near capacity
The same evidence trail wherever the inspection lands

2027Enterprise multi-site tier

41,883Sites in the French ICPE base

Advisors

HSE consultants

The people who prepare mid-size sites for inspection today, by hand, and who carry the same compliance risk on behalf of their clients.

The client's register, already assembled and current
Every verdict traceable to its rule and its source
Time spent on judgement rather than on paperwork

24,414Site inspections in 2024

+30%Rise in inspection rate since Lubrizol

Our purpose

A chemical accident begins as an ordinary decision, taken quickly, by someone who had no way to check. ChemTrack exists to give that person the answer before the drum goes down.

France first · the wider European ICPE framework as the longer horizon

The founders

Chemistry, risk systems, compliance IT.

ChemTrack sits where hazard knowledge, systematic risk control and audited IT delivery meet. Two founders, one first engineering hire planned for the third quarter of 2026.

OAO

Co-founder · CEO

B.Tech in pure and applied chemistry. Over twenty years across security operations, risk management, financial services and logistics in West Africa and Europe, including a decade leading a security services company of more than 2,500 personnel.

The chemistry gives him the substance domain. The security career gave him the method: risk assessment, systematic prevention, regulatory compliance, procedures that hold under inspection.

Owns strategy · commercial development · partnerships · regulatory relationships · fundraising

ASA

Co-founder · CTO

MSc Information Systems Management and BSc Business Information Technology, London South Bank University. Eight years of IT, access control and facilities delivery inside the UK National Health Service, with certifications in disaster management and safety science.

Hospitals run on audit trails, access rules and data protection. That is the environment where he learned to build and operate systems under a regulator's eye — which is the environment ChemTrack ships into.

Owns product · architecture · compliance workflow design · engineering

Plan · 2026–2027

Q2 2026

Incorporation in France. Rule base design and product architecture.

Q3–Q4 2026

MVP build: registry, compatibility engine, DREAL report generator, responsive web interface.

Q4 2026

Pilot deployments with three to five facilities. First paying sites.

2027

Commercial rollout. Native operator application. Enterprise multi-site tier.

Early access

Pilot places for late 2026 are open.

We are selecting three to five ICPE facilities for the pilot programme. If you run chemical storage under autorisation or enregistrement, tell us about the site and we will come back to you.

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