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Aberdeen Report - Environment, Health and Safety: Going Beyond Compliance
The need to ensure compliance with Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) regulations and concern over the risk of adverse events is driving an increasing number of manufacturers to reevaluate their EHS program in order to achieve sustained compliance and retain their competitive advantage. In its third annual study, Environment, Health and Safety: Going Beyond Compliance, Aberdeen provides a ...
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Build vs. Buy: Ten Lessons Your CIO Should Share About Enterprise EHS & Crisis Management Software
Build vs. buy software decisions often pit business and operations against the Chief Information Officer and the Information Technology (IT) department. Individual agendas and stakeholder needs compete for attention. Users present complex, almost undecipherable requirements, and the project team must deliver a user-friendly solution on time and within budget. If you and your CIO have a good ...
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The Basics of EH&S Self-Auditing
The challenge of complying with all of the applicable environmental and occupational safety regulations is formidable for any organization. Internal auditing, or self-auditing, is increasingly being used to address this challenge. This article looks at the range of auditing practices that exist to help organizations decide if self-auditing makes sense for them and what form it should take. ...
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How Tech Companies Can Overcome 5 Global EHS Compliance Challenges
Tech companies big and small are expanding globally. From increasing sales to decreasing costs to filling a market need, there are a myriad of reasons why tech companies go global. Environment, health and safety (EHS) compliance requirements in new countries are often unforeseen obstacles to a tech company's expansion plans, especially when there are limited EHS resources to begin with. ...
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Enhesa Survey on EHS Regulatory Compliance – Startling Results
In September 2011, Enhesa carried out a survey amongst corporate EHS managers on their confidence of the effectiveness of their corporate compliance program. Strikingly, forty-three percent had little or no confidence that their corporate compliance program was able to ensure regulatory compliance. This puts senior management and the board of directors of these companies at risk of being held ...
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Enhesa increases the number of jurisdictions covered for 2018 - up to 286!
Enhesa supports the Global EHS programs for many of the world’s largest companies by offering a standardized, consistent suite of services enabling them to be aware of, and stay in compliance with, EHS laws wherever they operate. Each year, Enhesa’s Production Team review the jurisdictions within the Federal/National and State/Regional/Provincial legislative areas, where we ...
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Don`t Let EHS Be a Barrier to International Expansion - What to Know Before You Go
Expanding your organization into a new global location, with little or no understanding of the local EHS and cultural aspects of operating your business there, can be extremely challenging. When it comes to ensuring a successful cross-border expansion, there are a number of factors to take into consideration, some of the most crucial being Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and cultural ...
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Life in the Data Center: Recognizing Common Hazards for Data Center Workers
Data centers contain critical company infrastructure and private customer information. These assets must be kept secure and functional 24/7 to maintain and enhance company business and brand reputation. But it is not just the data and equipment that is essential to data center functionality—how do companies put worker safety and well-being, along with environmental health and safety (EHS) ...
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Enhesa celebrates 10 years as an independent company
On 20 March 2011, Enhesa will celebrate its ten year anniversary as an independent entity. Enhesa was established in 2001 as a management buy-out of the Law Companies Group Environmental Policy Centres. The first Environmental Policy Centre was established in Washington DC in 1989 and the second in Brussels in 1992. With 22 years of experience, Enhesa has become the leader in assisting ...
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Coming of age for EH&S professionals
If EH&S professionals are uniquely suited to serve as the corporation's external window on the world, its problem-solvers and visionaries, how can they get management to listen? Having entered a new century, we find that we are no longer in the infancy of the EH&S movement in the United States, and some nations have advanced beyond our present level of care. In the U.S., we have ...
By AHC Group
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Planning your EHS budget for 2013? the regulatory trends that might impact your company and budget
As a global EHS manager, you may be tasked with planning for your entire corporate EHS program. Although most companies believe that environmental, health and safety issues are a top priority, resources assigned to managing compliance vary by company. It’s that crucial time of the year, when most companies around the globe make their best efforts in planning for 2013. Goals are set, ...
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5 Steps to Aligning your EHS Project with the IT Department
For many organizations today, technology is playing an increasingly large role in driving environmental, health, safety (EHS) and quality compliance and processes. Across every industry, a higher percentage of the budget is being allocated towards EHS software. Analyst firm Verdantix forecasts that organizations will spend over $1,150 million by 2019 on EHS software alone. As organizations ...
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Performance management systems target EH&S
Businesses need better knowledge of their financial, operations and risk performance vis-àvis corporate strategies and plans. Fragmented information systems force many to make decisions using less-than-optimal data. Businesses find it tough to locate, use, share, and trust the information they need. This is why Performance Management, which leverages Business Intelligence, is named the most ...
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ISO 14001: 2015 Where Do Things Stand?
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) are increasingly used by organizations of all sizes to reduce environmental risk and improve performance. For many Enhesa clients EMS is part of an integrated or standalone system, which is a cornerstone for their EHS Management & Compliance programs. Enhesa helps many clients meet their management system obligations, which allows them to stay on top of ...
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Recap: 4 Interesting Takeaways from the NAEM 2016 EHS & Sustainability Management Forum
As the old adage goes, all good things must come to an end. The 2016 NAEM EHS & Sustainability Management Forum officially wrapped up on Friday, Oct. 28 in Denver, Colorado, and it was a fantastic event. The 24th annual event drew hundreds of EHS and sustainability professionals and industry leaders to the Mile High City for three days of inspirational speakers, incredible learning sessions ...
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What is Your Organization`s EHS Culture?
Each organization has a unique EHS culture. It is critical to understand and manage your organization’s EHS culture in order to maintain positive EHS performance. EHS performance is most often driven by employee actions and behaviors, which are largely a product of the EHS culture within an organization. In order to manage EHS performance, one must be able to understand and manage their ...
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The October Issue of the Enhesa Flash is out!
Hot off the presses – Enhesa’s October 2012 issue of the Flash – FREE! Keep up-to-date with the latest EHS developments around the globe, like what you need to know when planning your 2013 EHS budget. Contact us at info@enhesa.com to sign up to our mailing list. http://enhesa.com/en/service/docs/EnhesaFlash67_201210_en.pdf About enhesa Enhesa is a global environmental, health ...
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Dirty Data: The Behind the Scenes Threat to Environmental Projects
Data quality for EHS compliance or sustainability management isn't a glamorous topic - especially when it comes to analytical data management. However, it has been gaining more of the limelight due to recent violations and regulatory fines, and it's importance should not be underestimated. Many essential decisions that companies make are based off of their data, so it's accuracy is key. In order ...
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Keeping Pace With EHS Compliance Management
This Medgate paper details the most common difficulties and roadblocks that organizations face when looking to improve their compliance management as part of a safety/environmental management system. It details how integrated and automated data management tools can improve efficiency and ...
By Cority
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Asug Environmental Health & Compliance sig newsletter
Welcome to the Environmental Health & Compliance (EH&S) SIG newsletter! The EH&S SIG is focusedon SAP users responsible for environmental, health, compliance and safety issues within theirorganizations. These issues include, but aren't limited to: product safety, dangerous goods, wastemanagement and the various xApps the compliment the EH&S module. For more information, ...
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