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The EHS FIRST™ management system helps companies create safer more sustainable businesses by boosting their EHS performance in short order. EHS FIRST offers scalable standards-based solutions that are innovative and integrated to address businesses’ most pressing EHS management challenges.


Learn from one of the most experienced EHS practitioners — Alcan’s been there!

EHS FIRST management system is a set of common standards, procedures and, most importantly, a whole way of thinking that fosters excellence in EHS performance.

EHS FIRST is built on Alcan’s extensive experience in environment, health and safety (EHS) management. A large, diverse and decentralized enterprise, Alcan faced many obstacles in its efforts to design an effective EHS management system. In the process Alcan acquired invaluable practical expertise. Through EHS FIRST, other companies can share Alcan’s knowledge, methods and tools. Road-tested and robust, the EHS FIRST system can be customized to meet the needs of your organization.

Through EHS FIRST Alcan achieved:
– a 71% reduction in Recordable Case rate since 2001
– a 79% drop in Lost-Time Injury/Illness Case rate since 2001
– zero employee fatalities in 2005
– an 80% reduction in Perfluocarbons (PFCs) overall per unit of production since 1990

Certifiably effective!

EHS FIRST incorporates the requirements of ISO 14001, a globally recognized environmental standard, and OHSAS 18001, an international occupational health and safety certification. It gives you the flexibility to adapt to whatever requirements for transparency, responsibility and accountability stakeholders may have in any and all of the regions where your company does business.
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What does this
mean for you?

When you take advantage of our successful experience applying EHS FIRST in the real world, you can expect to achieve rapid, sustainable results, whatever the size of your organization, wherever it may be!
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News:

Alcan’s EHS FIRST management system receives Robert W. Campbell Award for excellence in Environment, Health and Safety


Montreal, Canada - November 6, 2006
Alcan has received the Robert W. Campbell Award for excellence in environment, health and safety (EHS)
at the National Safety Council's (NSC) Congress & Expo in San Diego, California. The Award recognizes the very best businesses worldwide that integrate environment, health and safety management as a key business value and that demonstrate how EHS performance is linked to productivity and profitability.
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Read the excerpts from Alcan’s award‑winning case study

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