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Does your company have corporate EHS standards?
Please take our brief survey…. In the upcoming weeks, Enhesa will hold its next webinar to explore the topic of corporate standards and ensuring EHS compliance. In preparation of the webinar, Enhesa has crafted a brief survey to identify major trends and concerns surrounding this issue that EHS practitioners face around the world today. It will allow us to analyze data and draw ...
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Thrive on Sharing knowledge with your EHS Peers – a place for corporate minds is here
Exactly one year ago, nearly 500 corporate EHS professionals tuned into Enhesa’s webinar “Going Beyond Corporate Standards to Ensure Compliance.” Its popularity was not unexpected but few on our team could have predicted the response received. Over the last 30 years, there has been a marked evolution in the way multinational organizations compile and implement their corporate ...
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Corporate standards: good enough in today’s world?
Have you ever questioned whether or not your corporate standards were comprehensive enough to ensure compliance globally? Do you feel confident that your facilities all over the world have all of the right tools to be compliant locally? In May 2012, hundreds of EHS Managers from some of the world’s largest multinational organizations tuned in to Enhesa’s recent webinar, Going Beyond ...
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Beware the pitfalls of a global corporate standard
We should respect the local EHS laws of non-Western countries – no matter how ridiculous they might seem. Anyone who has worked for an international company will likely have a few interesting cross-cultural stories to tell. I for one hear anecdotes on different cultural approaches and requirements relating to environment, health and safety issues on an almost daily basis. Some of these ...
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Top EHS Consulting Considerations for the Automotive Segment
Knowing when and how to use EHS consulting to supplement an EHS Team can be challenging, particularly in the automotive industry. Increased globalization, shrinking budgets, and a dynamic regulatory climate mean consistent challenges for manufacturers and suppliers alike. These challenges, however, also create opportunities. Here are some EHS consulting considerations for automotive companies ...
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Enhesa webinar invitation! Going beyond corporate standards to ensure EHS compliance
Do you believe your corporate standards are comprehensive enough to ensure EHS compliance globally? Are your standards based primarily on the regulations from your home country? Have you given your facilities the tools to know and be compliant with local regulations? Are you prepared to pay the fines and penalties associated with transgressions of local country regulations? In order to ...
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The Case for an Integrated Quality Management and EHS System
By bringing together quality management and environmental health and safety (EHS), the integrated QEHS system is a powerful proposition that delivers a real return on investment over relatively short timescales As increasing numbers of organizations embrace the benefits of enterprise quality management systems, it’s only natural to consider other opportunities for greater automation of key ...
By EtQ, LLC
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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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A refreshing take on EHS management: Reducing incidents with a new reporting channel - Case Study
For Finnish brewery company Olvi Limited, safety has never been better. And Lauri Multanen, Operations Director at the chain, credits part of that success to the implementation of the Quentic EHS mobile app. Discussing its previous poor records, Lauri Multanen says: “We have not had a very good safety history. We had lots of small accidents, nothing major or serious, but too many minor ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Designing roadmaps to sustainability case study
Challenge: With the goal of achieving world class EHS performance, a global Life Sciences Company contracted with Antea Group to develop and implement a corporate environmental, health and safety audit program that included assessment of EHS compliance at operating facilities worldwide. Solution: Antea Group developed an EHS management system strategy and road map aligned with EHS objectives ...
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To integrate, or not to integrate...
While environment, health, safety (EHS) and quality management issues are often handled by individual management systems, the guiding principles behind each of these areas share a common link — W. Edwards Deming. The American quality guru is most commonly associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, an iterative problem-solving process used to resolve quality issues and improve ...
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Minimalist or motivated
Two strategies for managing chemical compliance This article outlines strategies and tactics for efficiently and effectively managing chemicals, while achieving EHS regulatory compliance. Since OHSA and the EPA were created in the 1970s, regulations have changed the way that chemicals and other hazardous materials are managed and introduced cradle-to-grave liability for chemicals and ...
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6 Commonly Overlooked EHS Risks for Lower-Risk Facilities—And How to Address Them
EHS managers of lower-risk facilities understand that, while compliance is a must, their highest priority is ensuring employees work in a safe, comfortable and protected environment. But as companies focus their attention on expanding locally and globally, some EHS risks can be unknown or overlooked. In our experience working with lower-risk facilities—work that has led to the development ...
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Compliance - You have to do it, why not do it well? (A white paper for companies striving for EH&S Excellence)
Untitled Document Abstract Managers face a myriad of challenges in today's business world - challenges stemming from downsizing to consolidation. In addition, company leaders find themselves trying to do more with less in a juggling act of responsibilities and oversight. Among a company's responsibilities is environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance, ...
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Crisis management as an opportunity for better occupational safety
When a crisis like the Corona pandemic hits globally active companies, already existing challenges in occupational safety and legal compliance are multiplied exponentially. Locations of various sizes, with differing company cultures and procedural structures face different levels of severity pandemic and are subject to different legal regulations based on their level of risk. The accelerated ...
By Quentic GmbH
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3E Company Gives Cabot Microelectronics Corporation the Power to Comply with Global Regulations
Background Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (CMC) is a supplier of sophisticated polishing compounds and polishing pads used in the manufacture of advanced semiconductors and rigid disks--critical components that drive today‘s electronic systems from desktop and laptop computers, cellular phones and electronic games, to personal data assistants, telecommunication switchboards and the ...
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Forward Focus: The Future of Industrial Hygiene, Part 1
The evolution of industrial hygiene includes improving the ability to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, control and confirm worker protection—across all of the industries that serve this growing field. Industrial Hygiene in the Workplace reached out to numerous companies for expert opinions on a range of subjects that affect how the field will change going forward and, most importantly, the ...
By Cority
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Managing Global EHS Compliance case study
Challenge: Facing the challenges of operating in an international regulatory environment, a global technology company was seeking a consultant to manage its EHS compliance program across 40 countries located throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Program objectives included ensuring compliance with local EHS regulations and internal management standards. With a ...
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EHS 4.0: What You Need to Know About the Digital Transformation
Environmental, health and safety (EHS) management has always had three main goals: to keep people safe, minimize negative impact on the environment and keep operations running productively and without incident. This means adhering strictly to compliance regulations and looking for new ways to increase profitability while decreasing incident rates. Why Traditional EHS Management Isn’t ...
By EtQ, LLC
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