What a year! Following a cascade of achievements in awards competitions, Intelex has just received a huge accolade. We've been named one of Canada's 50 Best Small and Medium Employers! The competition, which pitted Intelex against hundreds of other small and medium employers across the country, was facilitated jointly by Queen's School of Business and AON Hewitt. The results were recently featured in PROFIT magazine.

Everyone at Intelex is thrilled by this achievement, which is another feather in an increasingly packed cap! In the past few months alone, Intelex was included on:

• Deloitte's list of the fastest growing technology companies in North America for the third consecutive year.
• The Toronto Star's list of the Top GTA employers.
• The Globe and Mail's list of the best employers in the GTA.
• Gartner's list of 2011's 'cool' vendors, and more.

These wins are a gratifying acknowledgment of our relentless focus on creating a progressive work environment that prioritizes the needs of our greatest asset – our people. Sound like an attractive work environment? You bet. And we're hiring. Check out our careers page for postings and apply today. 

In this episode of EHS This Week, Kristy and I discuss top stories from the world of environment, health and safety news for the past seven days, including OSHA citations, a milestone for GHS implementation, FAA modernization and more.

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In this episode of EHS This Week, Kristy and I discuss top stories from the world of environment, health and safety news for the past seven days, including Obama's budget requests for OSHA and EPA, the extension of residential construction enforcement rules and more.

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In this episode of EHS This Week, Kristy and I discuss the top stories from the world of environment, health and safety news for the past seven days, including: 

• Cal-OSHA's resolution of Sylmar blast fines.
• OSHA's take on Dikinson Trench collapse.
• An odd acknowledgement of Imperial Sugar's fourth anniversary by OSHA.
• The growing number of China's environmental disasters.

Also, we feature a site shoutout on one of the best environment blogs out there.

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Here at Intelex we like to have fun, but we’re also pretty serious about our role in the world, how we treat our employees, and answering the question 'why we do what we do'.

That’s why we established a series of corporate values that are core to our entire operation. Now, often companies state their corporate values, and they are written in a document that winds up collecting dust in some dark filing cabinet. We wanted to do things a little differently. We wanted to ensure we lived up to our stated values, and that we’re constantly reminded of what those values are.

So we decided to emblazon our office walls with all the values that drive our business. Every day, as employees walk the halls of our headquarters, they are reminded of the meaning behind the work they do and how our company impacts the world in positive ways.

Here are some of our core corporate values:

• Leadership
• Sustainability
• Integrity
• Respect For All Individuals
• Teamwork & Trust
• Stewardship
• Hard Work
• Happiness

Do our corporate values align with yours? We're growing rapidly and seeking top talent. Check out our careers page for more information.

In the Greater Toronto Area? Swing by our headquarters and have a look yourself.

Last week Training Specialist Steph DiRaddo conducted our largest in-house user training session with client Veresen Inc, which owns and operates energy infrastructure assets across North America. The training stretched over two days and brought Veresen plant managers from their eastern facilities together with the Alberta-based project team here at Intelex headquarters in Toronto.

Veresen is getting ready to launch their appropriately named SMART (Sustainability Management and Reporting Tool) using Intelex’s EHS Incident Management application to 200 users across North America. The project team has been working diligently to ensure a smooth introduction of the new system to various internal departments, and in doing so has provided a great example of how they can creatively engage employees that will be working with the system.

Demonstrating their full commitment to SMART, and to further encourage user adoption and integration, the Veresen Project Team went as far as creating a new logo and some terrific branded materials. Ergonomic mouse pads and travel first aid kits with the SMART logo will be a nice complement to the roll-out of the system and a great addition to users’ offices. “Their brand marketing for the project is something I’ve never seen,” Steph commented. “They are using the system to cultivate a culture shift in the way they look at EHS.”

User adoption is such an important piece in maximizing the use and benefit of the system, and Veresen has gone the extra mile to ensure SMART is welcomed and embraced into the company’s safety reporting activities. This is definitely a smart initiative and we’re thrilled to be a part of it!

More Tips to Help Boost User Adoption

Here are some other ways that you can encourage user adoption of the Intelex system throughout your organization:

• Ask senior management to communicate the implementation of Intelex through a companywide announcement. This may come in the form of an email, internal newsletter or intranet posting.

• Distribute brochures detailing the applications or systems being used.

• Make instructional manuals readily available to users and provide information specific to their access level.

• Create a micro-site on your website where employees can access system FAQs, workflow diagrams, helpful links, etc.

• Give your active users access to Intelex-Exchange, an online portal full of learning materials and system resources.

• Dedicate a person or team (depending on implementation size) to be the “Intelex Guru”, the go-to person for questions, training or anything Intelex-related.

Intelex’s marketing team is able to assist any client with the above mentioned items and can help tailor any existing resources to meet specific needs.

In this episode of EHS This Week, Kristy and I discuss the top stories from the world of environment, health and safety news for the past seven days, including: 

• A revealing study on California's injury and illness prevention program, the model for OSHA's upcoming I2P2.
• The State's delayed movement on offshore wind power.
• The GOPs push to kill a climate rule for new power plants, and more.

Also, we feature a site shoutout on one of the best environment blogs out there.

Come back on a weekly basis or subscribe for our rundown of the week’s top EHS Stories.

The year of 2012 is already well underway, and Intelex is gearing up for an action-packed year of events to attend to around the world.  The first on the list is the 15th annual Energy, Utility and Environment Conference (EUEC) in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Taking place January 30th to February 1st, this exciting event plays host to the top environmental leaders, energy executives, NGOs and government policy makers from around the globe in to the name of exchanging best practices and working toward renewable energy solutions for the future.

As a returning solutions provider, Intelex is thrilled to be involved.  “EUEC is always a great event to connect with top industry specialists,” says Intelex’s own senior solutions expert, Fraser Dickie. “We’ve developed valuable relationships from this show in previous years and we’re excited to be back!”

Be sure to visit the Intelex team this week at booth 214/216.