Launched during the 2nd half of 2017, SMART Myanmar's on-site chemical management training module was developed via support from GIZ PSES and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles. This unique cooperation allowed three of SMART's local technical experts to quickly gain the knowledge, training resources and the practical experience necessary to steer forward a wide variety of chemical management improvements with three wet processing factories. 

During 2018 SMART Myanmar has taken this program further, expanding it to six new factories, including companies outside Yangon in the towns of Hmawbi and Kyaukse. Although wet processing in the Myanmar garment industry is still on a scale much smaller than China or Bangladesh, the project aims to rapidily build-up local knowledge and capacities for international standards and systems. Particular focus has been given to chemical risk and inventory management and hazardous waste handling and disposal. For instance, knowledge in Myanmar on the Global Harmonized System (GHS) for chemical labeling is quite low. As such, SMART has educating managers and factory staff on this system via on-site assessments of chemical storage rooms and processing areas and by conducting on-site classroom workshops. SMART's chemical management team further added content on chemical warning labels to the project's new SMART phone game, Satyone Superstar.

SMART Myanmar trains factory managers to understand the criteria necessary for the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) commitment that numerous brands and retailers have signed on to. As such, several dozen garment factories in Myanmar are in the process of eliminating hazardous chemicals from their production processes and the project is pleased to strenghten their capacities to achieve this goal.