Regulatory Compliance

There seem to be new demands everyday to ensure compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations and obligations. Not only do you have to keep up with and track tasks related to general requirements of OSHA and EPA, you have to track specific tasks relating to permit requirements such as Title V and NPDES as well as industry best practices and ISO 14001. These demands require enormous efforts in data collection and reporting. Now there are increasing pressures for managing risk and cost associated with environmental compliance so visibility and analysis of the data becomes crucial.

Being able to report on the information is not easy. Data is isolated in disparate home-grown software systems, is delivered in different formats, is locked in various spreadsheets, and is stored in hand-entered documents with different versions e-mailed all over the place. The information is also coming from multiple functional areas within the company-- HR, maintenance, and operations. You spend many hours each day piecing data and information together in order to produce a wide range of mandatory external and internal reports. How many times have you been asked at the last minute to produce a particular report that encompasses a cross section of data for a meeting? The request seems easy but now you have to drop projects you are working on and spend your time gathering the information and put it in an easy format for viewing.

You need a better way to receive the information. Imagine receiving data and information in a consistent manner. Eliminate tracking down people and information via e-mails and phone calls. Eliminate consolidating data from multiple spreadsheets and hand entered forms. With a centralized system, you could get instant visibility to data, know when a key requirement has been missed and produce reports with the click of a button.

The time you save will enable you to work on those “If I only had more time, I could…..” projects. ISO Certification would be quick and painless. This visibility and control would enable you to reduce your risk which leads to significant cost savings. You can now easily show the value of an effective EHS program to executives and impact the bottom line. EHS will not be thought of as a cost center anymore.