Environment, Health and Safety Management [EHSM]

In a complex global business environment, improving performance and assuring compliance with all your Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) obligations, commitments and constraints is a challenge. This is because the environmental aspects & impacts and occupational health and safety hazards & risks (EHS risks) of a company's business involve legal and financial risks, as well those of damaging the company's image and reputation. These risks in turn affect the company's value and its business model.

Social-environmental management has earned increasing interest among organizations that want to establish an ethical and transparent relationship with interested parties (shareholders, customers, community, suppliers and employees). This is because such organizations must establish, document, implement, maintain and continuously improve practices that are economically viable, environmentally correct and socially fair and which have the following characteristcs:

• Support control and minimization of EHS risks. 
• Preserve environmental and cultural resources (air, water, soil, flora, fauna, creatures and their interrelations) for future generations.
• Promote sustainable development of society, respecting diversity and promoting the reduction of social inequalities.

SE SoftExpert EHSM - Environment, Health and Safety Management - provides a framework for your organizations to improve EHS performance by incorporating environmental considerations into business decisions and risk management efforts. The solution also allows your organization to define and enforce corporate-wide EHS policies, identify EHS risks, maintain regulatory compliance and demonstrate due-diligence.

SE EHSM allows you to define, develop, control and proactively manage your EHS in compliance with the EHS standards, since it supports all steps of the PDCA Cycle. This solution will allow your organization to access information and quickly make decisions, plan resources and simplify follow-up on the EHS Management system (EHSM).

Global companies are using SE EHSM solutions worldwide to improve the reporting and management of their EHSM performance, better manage their risks, reduce costs and streamline business processes.

SoftExpert EHSM Suite is the most comprehensive compliance management software platform of its kind. It provides customers with the following benefits:

• Customer self-service – secure Web-based operations.
• Collaboration skill enhancement through real-time access to information.
• Eliminates risky and costly spreadsheet errors by deploying a consistent, reliable and standardized database management solution across your EHS organization.
• Maintains a central repository that collects and stores data once, and reports it multiple times – saving time, reducing costs and associated risks.
• Deploys verifiable and transparent data collection, ensuring the reliability of the data and information reported to key stakeholders.
• Easily connects to other information systems, reducing the inefficiency associated with manual transcription and aggregation.

Return on Investment (ROI) for Environment, Health and Safety Management (EHSM)

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, as shown in the figure below:

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 Suite 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.

 

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