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title: Approve or reject a chemical request
description: The approver or the chemical manager can approve or reject the chemical request in the Employee Center.
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# Approve or reject a chemical request

The approver or the chemical manager can approve or reject the chemical request in the Employee Center.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_hs\_chm.manager or approver

## About this task

The approver can also choose to approve the chemical request from the Health and Safety Workspace. Open the record from the **Approvers** related list within the chemical request and select **Approved** in the **State** field.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Self service** > **Employee Center**.

2.  Select **My Tasks**.

3.  View the **Approve request** record.

    You can view and verify the details of the request and choose to approve or reject a chemical request.

4.  In the **Do you want to approve \(chemical name\)?** field, add comments if needed.

5.  Select either the **Reject** or **Approve** button, depending on your decision regarding the chemical request.


## Result

The status of the chemical request changes to Approved or Rejected based on the decision made.

## What to do next

To view the state of the request as a chemical manager on the Health and Safety Workspace,

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Health and Safety** > **Health and Safety Workspace**.
2.  In the primary navigation, select **Environmental Management** \(\[Omitted image "icon-hs-envt-mgmt.png"\] Alt text: environmental management\) icon.
3.  In the **Chemical requests** list, select the **Approved** section.

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