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Does Your Corporate Injury Reporting Add Value?
One of the oldest metrics used in the EHS field is corporate injury and accident reporting. It is one of the few times when EHS data will often contribute directly to Corporate Annual Reports. But is your reporting system state of the art or a relic from the past? Whatever the number may be, you are either adding value or showing corporate weakness. As part of the Corporate EHS Standards ...
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Do You Know the 4 V’s of Big Data?
From professional sports, to advertising, to investment banking and almost everything in between. Big data is driving thousands of decisions each day that impact us all in areas big and small. But what is big data exactly, and how or why should it impact efforts in the realm of health and safety? First a definition of big data itself. Big data is a term that began to emerge over the last decade ...
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The linde group - Moving to a single system for global ehs data management
The Challenge In 2006, Linde AG merged with The BOC Group to form The Linde Group (Linde), a leading gases and engineering company with almost 48,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. Following the merger, Linde needed the capability to collect and analyze data from hundreds of global reporting centers. Changes in data also had to be seamlessly and quickly updated while ...
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3 Ways to Optimize Your EHS Data
See What You've Been Missing As consultants, we’re always looking to find the most efficient ways to understand our project site data and maximize our understanding of the conditions and processes in the subsurface. Understanding data begins with quality data management, but it's important to have a streamlined process for providing data in proprietary formats for mapping and visualization ...
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Approaches to Managing EHS and Sustainability Data by NAEM
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and sustainability leaders use a variety of primary tools to ensure regulatory compliance, increase efficiency and support public disclosure of sustainability achievements. But with an array of data management tools on the market, it’s worth evaluating how companies are managing EHS and sustainability data, and what trends are emerging. NAEM's latest ...
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Meet an Intelex Client: Coral Barrett, Boart Longyear
Coral works in EHS Data & Support at Boart Longyear, a mineral exploration company that provides drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling. Based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, this year Boart Longyear celebrates its 125 anniversary as a leader in the global mining and drilling industry. In this video, Coral discusses what made Intelex stand out from the competition when her ...
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Three Best Ways to Utilize Technology in EHS
Big or small, there’s no doubt that technology affects and challenges the way your business operates more and more every day. So what separates the strong from the weak? Success from failure? Throwing it back to ancient Greece, philosopher Heraclitus said, “All is flux, nothing stays still – there is nothing permanent except change.” Evolve, adapt, progress, change! ...
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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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Leveraging EHS data and tools for a safer and greener supply chain
Environmental health and safety (EHS) regulatory compliance programs and strategies, by definition, traditionally have been aimed at preventing violations, fostering safety and reducing risk. New goals for EHS regulatory compliance programs include minimizing the adverse life cycle impacts of products and operations and require integrating EHS practices and expertise into core business ...
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Three Best Ways to Utilize Technology in EHS
Big or small, there’s no doubt that technology affects and challenges the way your business operates more and more every day. So what separates the strong from the weak? Success from failure? Throwing it back to ancient Greece, philosopher Heraclitus said, “All is flux, nothing stays still – there is nothing permanent except change.” Evolve, adapt, progress, change! ...
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5 Steps to a Predictive Safety Culture
It’s that time of year. The beginning of a new year often means that many of us are preparing our resolutions. Whether your resolution is to improve your diet, lose weight or quit smoking, there is one piece of advice that’s broadly applicable when it comes to achieving any resolution. You’re far more likely to achieve your resolution goal if you’ve got a clear plan in ...
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5 Ways Your EHS Spreadsheet is Costing You Money
If your organization is like many, you may still be using a complex set of spreadsheets, emails and macros to manage your health and safety program. After all, that’s how you’ve been managing your EHS program for years, and for years that home grown solution has been “good enough.” But sometimes good enough is not really good enough when you consider the cost ...
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3 Things You Need to Know About Safety Management Software
As a safety professional, you should always be on the lookout for the latest tools to help grow your safety program. When you create a strong health and safety culture, your organization is destined to achieve sustainability. Having the right resources - like software automation - plays a key role in helping you reach this success. Here are three things you need to know about safety software, ...
By EHS Insight
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5 Reasons Why SaaS is Changing EHS Software
What is SaaS? Software as a service (SaaS) is transforming how organizations of all shapes and sizes are deploying and using software (including EHS software). The IT research firm, Gartner defines SaaS as “software that is owned, delivered and managed remotely by one or more providers. The provider delivers software based on one set of common code and data definitions that is consumed in ...
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5 Ways Your EHS Spreadsheet is Costing You Money
If your organization is like many, you may still be using a complex set of spreadsheets, emails and macros to manage your health and safety program. After all, that’s how you’ve been managing your EHS program for years, and for years that home grown solution has been “good enough.” But sometimes good enough is not really good enough when you consider the cost implications. ...
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Going Online to Manage Global EH&S Affairs
Untitled Document Over the past few years, Web-enabled environment, health, and safety (EH&S) management systems have permeated the EH&S management culture in subtle ways. But as more professionals begin to rely on this technology, the real benefits are beginning to become clear. One of the biggest benefits is that anyone who can surf the Internet can ...
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5 Processes Where Quality and EHS Convergence Makes Complete Sense
There are also many overlaps between the quality standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and EHS standards such as OHSAS 18001. As businesses look to find greater efficiencies by streamlining and integrating business processes, as well as get a better return on their IT investments, quality and EHS convergence makes sense. Forward-looking businesses are already finding areas of commonality and ...
By EtQ, LLC
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The Advantages of Proper Data Management
Published in Pollution Engineering April 2011 Driven by a number of processes, companies increasingly need to collect, manage, and report data. Some of this comes from monitoring carried out by individuals, contractors and analytical laboratories. There have also been many advances in monitoring and logging of data but often the analysis and reporting of data is carried out in Microsoft Excel or ...
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Visualizing Your Data with EHS Software
When you're teaching teams about environmental, health and safety (EHS) metrics, data visualization is essential because you're reaching people of different ages, educational levels and they might even speak different languages. As you are presenting safety statistics, you want to make sure all stakeholders are responsive, alert, and in tune with your materials to help the environment, prevent ...
By EHS Insight
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Bar code functionality enhances EH&S data management
Last year a manufacturing company chose T3, a division of Trinity Consultants that implements EH&S information management solutions, to implement an EH&S management information system (EMIS) at three of its facilities. The manufacturer selected opsInfo by IHS to manage its Title V compliance and emissions reporting. An existing system was already in place to manage equipment maintenance ...
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