What is EHS? Environmental Health and Safety Management System (2024)

What are the benefits of the EHS Management System?

For an EHS solution to enable the achievement of EHS goals, it requires effective communication strategies that enable the linking of all stakeholders, both internal and external.

An Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) system automates the processes to:

The benefits of automating the EHS processes include:

• Employee well-being and safety as a culture
• Sustainability and brand loyalty
• Productivity and transparency gains
• Revenue and market share growth
• An innovative mindset

Features of CQ Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Management System

Manual systems or safety management on legacy systems can add to the challenges faced by safety leaders. By automating with an environmental health and safety software solution, safety leaders can ensure the well-being of the employees with greater efficiency. ComplianceQuest EHS provides an enterprise-wide view of data and processes that can enable continuous improvement (CI). The solution can help:

• Standardize safety management across locations while also empowering employees to report near misses, incidents, and observations anonymously and track progress from anywhere.
• Establish root cause analysis and initiate corrective and preventive action where needed.
• Ensure training management, document management and also create a centralized register for identifying patterns and trends for continuous improvement. With OSHA enabling electronic submission of Forms 300 and 300A, a safety management system makes even reporting incidents simpler and more organized.

ComplianceQuest EHS System is a part of its enterprise-wide quality management system, thereby integrating all the processes seamlessly. ComplianceQuest EHS System enables automation of workflows and establishing a culture of safety and sustainability while meeting organizational goals. The key features of the ComplianceQuest EHS System include:

• Safety Event Reporting: EHS systems promote a safety culture to control risks and hazards at the workplace by ensuring workers have easy access to report injuries, accidents or near misses that could affect safety on the worksite. These reports can be addressed to manage the risk and get an effective response, and if required, be reported to a regulatory control agency like OSHA directly.
• CAPA: Full action lifecycle to investigate and address unwanted events, hazards, and to facilitate change management. The system can be used to assign to the right people, monitor the workflow, and provide full visibility as the process moves through verification of effectiveness.
• Worksite Inspections: Define schedules, checklists, and assess the type and level of safe activity for all or specific locations. Keep the health and safety inspections seamless, consistent, timely, and mobile on any device. CQ’s EHS management system allows managers to assign actions to unwanted findings – all within one record for easy tracking and trend analysis.
• Safety Observations: Provide workers a means to engage in the Safety Culture and to report positive or negative observations. Safety managers can use the data for trending or assign investigations and actions depending on what is required. Excellent for lessons-learned postings to the workforce.
• Compliance Management: CQ’s compliance management module is managed by Enhesa – the world’s largest provider of environmental health and safety regulatory requirements. The solution offers the capability of undertaking a regulatory applicability analysis for a particular geography/operation.
• Stakeholder Management: With ComplianceQuest H&S management solution, companies can manage all stakeholders, ensuring their participation and involvement in identifying key H&S risks as well as the root cause for any incidents.
• Risk management: Using ComplianceQuest EHS System’s indigenously developed risk management module, businesses will be able to:
• Maintain all hazards and risks in a consolidated document
• Categorize risks based on a thought-through risk rating methodology
• Classify risks based on the function/process/activity
• Follow the hierarchy of controls while determining control measures
• Assign risk owners and frequency of review
• Alter the risk level based on the effectiveness of the control measure

How can CQ EHS Management Software help companies?

A good health and safety program will reduce the cost due to injury, improve your safety culture, and enable informed health and safety-related decision-making for an efficient and effective operation. The EHS solution from ComplianceQuest is built on cloud-based and scalable SalesForce.com. It is flexible and modular, enabling businesses to deploy only the features that needed. It integrates with existing enterprise systems for seamless integration of EHS with operations. ComplianceQuest’s EHS management solution enables seamless management of an organization’s entire environment and safety program with a range of intuitively integrated tools and applications. CQ’s EHS management software allows companies to prioritize health and safety programs based on risk analysis and providing relevant and timely data.

While there are some benefits that can be measured, implementing an automated EHS solution such as CQ’s EHS management software also provides some intangible benefits such as:

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• Safety management is about preventing incidents proactively. Automation helps organizations stay ahead through a risk-based approach thus improving safety outcomes and promoting organizational and operational excellence. Automatic proactive and reactive reminders are provided to further organizations’ compliance goals.

  • Improvement in supplier visibility.

  • Increase in operating margin.

  • A decline in product recalls.

• • Analytics and Dashboards: Have the Health and Safety metrics of the workplace available anytime, anywhere for improved decision-making and oversight. Keep a record of potential risks and the actions taken for future reference.

  • Safety Notifications and Collaboration: Improve Health and Safety communication and transparency. Like and follow relevant records in the system and decide how and when to be notified of changes.

  • Mobile Access: Access the solution including reports, approvals, record views, reviews, alerts, etc. on the go, anywhere, anytime, and on any device. This ensures business continuity and improves efficiency, visibility, and flexibility.

• • Compliance: Managed by Enhesa, the solution offers the capability of undertaking a regulatory applicability analysis for a particular geography/operation.

  • Risk Management: Through clearly visible reports on hazards and risks, organizations can prevent accidents and implement better control measures.

  • Reputation: The software helps to effectively report injuries, accidents, or near misses that could affect safety thus improving monitoring that will help in enhancing brand reputation, which is good for business.