20th November 2017
Unlocking the value of your EHS solution
Original article from Trinity Consultants
Many EHS suite of applications available today are able to address multiple needs. However, your emissions inventory or incidents management solution can be optimised to help your company achieve its broader EHS goals.
We’ve identified ten ways to maximise your current EHS solution.
How to maximise your EHS solution? Consider looking at the entire spectrum of EHS activities from a top down approach and breaking them into various categories. The following questions can be helpful to get started.
T3, a division of Trinity Consultants, has an intimate understanding of the regulatory, technological, and human aspects of EHS data management. Our team of EHS and IT professionals, with a broad range of experience including air, water, waste, industrial hygiene, health, safety, and environmental management systems, partners with you to clarify objectives and recommend appropriate technology solutions that meet your needs with respect to functionality, timing, budget, and integration with legacy systems.
Many EHS suite of applications available today are able to address multiple needs. However, your emissions inventory or incidents management solution can be optimised to help your company achieve its broader EHS goals.
We’ve identified ten ways to maximise your current EHS solution.
- Use check list functionalities to manage and record inspections, sampling results, and internal audits
- Implement corporate safety guidelines using automated workflows to help improve safety and reduce incidents
- Track assets, raw-materials, or finished products using asset management and material tracking features
- Implement a management of change process and track process changes through your solution
- Use automated APIs and/or other data feeds such as laboratory sampling data, GIS coordinates, production accounting data, and waste manifest transactions with your solution to improve operational efficiency and accuracy
- Utilize the solution to better track and record completed tasks and repair work orders as required by your environmental permits
- Generate energy use and other Key Performance Metrics required for sustainability/CDP and other reports
- Automate data validation and calculations on data intensive and complex calculations reports to eliminate redundancy and manual errors
- Use dashboards and automated workflows to improve the information flow, visibility, and tracking of compliance health of plants and maintenance facilities
- Use real-time compliance data on dashboards and automated email notifications for EHS policy decisions and proactive management of impending non-compliance issues
How to maximise your EHS solution? Consider looking at the entire spectrum of EHS activities from a top down approach and breaking them into various categories. The following questions can be helpful to get started.
- What functionalities are available in our EHS software?
- How critical is this EHS business activity for our company?
- What can we enhance, improve or optimise using the unused functionalities of the existing software assets we own?
T3, a division of Trinity Consultants, has an intimate understanding of the regulatory, technological, and human aspects of EHS data management. Our team of EHS and IT professionals, with a broad range of experience including air, water, waste, industrial hygiene, health, safety, and environmental management systems, partners with you to clarify objectives and recommend appropriate technology solutions that meet your needs with respect to functionality, timing, budget, and integration with legacy systems.