SoftExpert EHSM

Environment, Health and Safety Management

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    The Challenge

    In a complex global business environment, improving performance and assuring compliance with all Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) obligations, commitments and constraints is a challenge. Moreover, social-environmental management has earned increasing interest among organizations that want to establish an ethical and transparent relationship with all interested parties – shareholders, customers, community, suppliers and employees.

    While the EHS needs will vary from one organization to the next, the primary objective is often the same – to reduce overall risk, comply with state and federal regulations, and enable the company to operate efficiently while maintaining a safe and environmentally healthy workplace. Standards and initiatives such as ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 serve as the framework that enables companies to comply with all environmental, health, and safety standards.

    The Solution – SoftExpert EHSM

    SoftExpert EHSM (Environmental, Health and Safety Management) is a robust web-based software that facilitates the complete and closed-loop management of the EHS program, drastically reducing the risk of health and safety incidents and strengthening compliance with environmental regulations and labor laws.

    The solution helps organizations maintain compliance and efficiently manage and track key processes based on organizational SOPs, local, national and international government regulations, and compliance guidelines such as ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and similar standards for environmental, health and safety management.

    The complete set of capabilities offered by SoftExpert EHSM for driving continuous improvement includes incident management and investigations, environmental management, audits and inspections, management of change (MOC), proactive measures and risk management, corrective and preventive action, waste management (treatment, storage, and disposal requirements), and compliance management. With the help of an integrated and advanced framework, these processes can be simplified and strengthened to improve the performance of the EHS program.

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    Environment, Health and Safety Management – EHSM

    SoftExpert EHSM software provides a flexible framework to streamline the creation and management of environmental policies and procedures as well as codes of conduct. It supports policy documentation, change management, awareness, training management, and accountability. The solution also helps rules and policies to be effectively communicated across the enterprise.

    Powerful analytics and executive dashboards provide real-time visibility into key process indicators, while alerts and notifications ensure prompt response, reducing the potential risk of safety incidents. The software also enables organizations to integrate environmental, health and safety compliance functions into their corporate and business processes levels in an organized and systematic way.

    • Legal and other requirements repository

      Legal and other requirements repository

    • Objectives and targets monitoring

      Objectives and targets monitoring

    • Risks and impacts monitoring

      Risks and impacts monitoring

    • Incident report and investigation

      Incident report and investigation

    • Audit management

      Audit management

    • Waste control

      Waste control

    Main Benefits

    Compliance with major regulations.

    Reduction of costs related to fines and penalties due to the disregard of legal issues.

    Accurate identification of regulatory requirements and issues affecting management system performance.

    Consistent, reliable and standardized information.

    Continuous improvement in EHS performance.

    Streamlined solution operations and reduced risk by leveraging a full range of capabilities.

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    Features

    Risk management

    Centralized risk/hazard analyses, identifying environmental and safety risks, and supporting a complete risk management program.

    Incidents

    Streamlined and automated management of work-related, environmental and property incidents.

    Key performance Monitoring

    Monitoring and evaluation of performance against compliance obligations, operational risks and key performance metrics.

    Action plans

    Effectively create action plans, track completion, manage reminders, ensure follow-up and create reports.

    Training management

    Training management system aligned with company policies and regulatory requirements.

    Solution Overview

    Solution Overview

    Return on Investment (ROI)

    From 1850 to around 1975, the sustainable competitive advantage of industrial organizations was related exclusively to the benefit of economies of scale and scope, rapid allocation of technology, fixed assets and excellence in the management of financial assets and liabilities in an economy dominated by tangible assets. This economy was based solely on financial indicators for performance management, no longer applicable today because organizations have transferred their assets to tangible assets.

    For Kaplan and Norton (1997), financial measures are designed to compare previous periods based on internal standards of performance. While such measures may present this information in a fairly consistent fashion, the financial outlook is no longer able to predict the future and also prevents the first signs of relationship problems, quality and new opportunities. This is because the speed with which information technology is evolving prompts major changes that demand a larger amount of information and new skills to manage organizational processes in order to guarantee competitive advantages in terms of making operational and strategic decisions on time.

    Experts call attention to the fact that, in the current scenario, the use of traditional financial measures alone is no longer appropriate, since the probability of failure is too high. This leads organizations to develop new methods and tools for supporting the measurement of overall performance, balancing not only the tangible assets, but also the intangible ones that will assist with short and long term decisions.

    In this sense, SE EHSM offers a wide range of natively integrated tools (components) to fully assist all phases of management process, supporting performance management, balance between tangible and intangible assets, transparency of processes and improvement of stakeholder confidence, with the following main advantages

    • Lowered TCO through increased reliability and scalability leading to greater administrative productivity.
    • Increased user productivity with the ability to communicate whenever and wherever needed with collaboration tools.
    • Streamlined solution operations and reduced risk by leveraging a full range of capabilities.
    • Compliance with major regulations.
    • Reduced ongoing costs with flexible financing and support options.
    • Allows for modular and incremental implementation, with worldwide services and support.

    Financial ROI:

    Annual Savings

    • Reduction of costs related to EHS risks.
    • Reduction of costs related to fines and penalties due to the disregard of legal issues.
    • Reduction of general expenses to complete activities demanded by applicable norms.
    • Reduction of management system costs.
    • Elimination of delays and inefficiencies that usually occur in manual activities.
    • Collaboration skill enhancement through real-time access to information.
    • Increased efficiency in maintenance system planning and activities.
    • Optimization of financial resources invested in management programs.

    Investment

    • The investment in SoftExpert EHSM will depend on the business unit size and implementation approach.

    Return on Investment (%)

    • (((Total Annual Savings x n years) – Initial Investment) / Initial Investment) x 100.

    Payback Period (years)

    • Initial Investment / Total Annual Savings.

    Non Financial ROI:

    • Improvement of company’s image and reputation in the society.
    • Improved relationship with shareholders, customers, community, suppliers and employees.
    • EHS risk identification, assessment and determination of controls.
    • Consistent, reliable and standardized information.
    • Accurate identification of regulatory requirements and issues affecting management system performance.
    • Monitoring occurrences, such as: best practices, opportunities for improvement, comments, nonconformities, etc.

    Featured Resources

    Ebook

    7 Must-Have Resources for Every Environmental Management System

    Read this eBook to find out which are these resources and how they can help on the overall organization’s EHS performance.
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    Ebook

    7 Capital Tools for Management Excellence

    The Management Excellence Model and its systematic use of key practices and tools.
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    Ebook

    ISO 14001:2015 – Don’t miss the deadline!

    Read this eBook to be better prepared to conduct a smooth transition of the ISO 14001:2015 at your organization.
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