Why an EHS management system?

There are mounting expectations and pressures on industry from government, shareholders, the media and the public to reduce risk and comply with ever tougher regulations. Beyond that, improving environment, health and safety performance is increasingly understood by business as an important way of creating value. Building a successful company is directly tied to contributing to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the communities in which you operate. Accordingly, in today’s world, EHS management is high on the corporate agenda.

Developing and implementing an EHS management system aids an organization in continually improving EHS performance while addressing the needs of a variety of stakeholders (regulators, shareholders, customers, NGOs, and others). An effective EHS management system ensures a consistent and coherent approach to environment, health and safety issues. It helps you to formulate policy, define goals, set targets, identify risks, and make specific commitments to continually improve the organization’s EHS performance.  

Is your company EHS FIRST ready?

EHS FIRST can accelerate performance improvement and provide solutions and strategies to lead your company to world class performance. There are a number of questions to ask in order to ascertain your organization’s EHS management needs, including:

– Is senior management aware of the risks and challenges the company faces?
- If not, how can you obtain senior management buy-in?

– Is line management taking action to address these risks?

– Do you have the right metrics to measure your performance?

– Is your performance improving?

– Do you need additional focus in the area of
- people management?
- tools?
- training?

Answers to these questions will vary from one company to another, but whatever your EHS management needs, EHS FIRST can help you meet challenges and move forward.
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The path to EHS excellence

EHS FIRST can help you on the road to EHS excellence by:

– conducting an EHS gap analysis to identify where a company is at in the EHS process versus where it wants to be

– obtaining buy-in from senior management

– setting targets

– establishing a roadmap for reaching your goals

EHS FIRST can help you implement the system you’ve developed by providing you with the right tools to:

– gather information

– share best practices

– engage and train your managers and employees

– develop document control systems

EHS FIRST can help you monitor and measure your performance against established objectives and targets:

– identify key performance indicators

– develop performance tracking systems

– develop records management systems

– conduct readiness reviews

– conduct internal audits

– conduct management reviews

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EHS FIRST: what are the benefits?

EHS FIRST is a detailed roadmap that enables you to consolidate disparate efforts throughout your company into a unified and coherent management system. With its holistic approach, it offers the ability to leverage best practices across your organization, and build on the experience of a recognized EHS leader.

Specifically designed to facilitate environment, health and safety management in manufacturing and industrial operations, EHS FIRST will help your company:

– implement sound procedures and best practices

– assess, monitor and minimize risks to the health and safety of employees and local communities and to the environment

– set, meet and, where possible, exceed EHS targets for performance improvement

– comply with all government regulations regarding transparency, responsibility and accountability

– audit operations and business practices at regular intervals to assess EHS performance and compliance

– foster EHS awareness, knowledge, skills and capabilities

– develop new expertise and a new mindset

In short, EHS FIRST can help you create all the conditions for EHS success:
– Clear policy
– Defined goals and targets
– Senior management buy-in
– Training for managers, supervisors and employees
– Performance measurement system
– Recognition of EHS performance as good for business
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