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Safety Management Systems Paint a Bigger EHS Performance Picture

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Integrated safety management systems offer a centralized means of tapping into safety processes, training status, compliance requirements, hazard data and incidents to provide up-to-the-minute, accurate data that identifies important trends and monitors incidents.

A safety management system or SMS is an environmental, health and safety (EHS) software solution that no organization today should be without. 

Safety management software provides organizational tools to develop, plan, measure, analyze, and control the overall safety performance of a company, and guide decision-making for choosing safety assurance activities.

Pressure on companies to maximize productivity and drive revenue in the face of challenging economic headwinds can lead to a tension between business objectives for growth and profitability and the health and safety practitioner’s priority to mitigate risk and keep people safe.

To deliver against this safety objective, safety management software is used to gain greater visibility into incidents and near misses and to shorten the time … Read more...

Data Quality – It’s a Dirty Job, but Someone’s Got To Do It

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Data quality is the foundation for EHS insights.
Forty-seven percent of newly-created data records have at least one critical (e.g., work-impacting) error.

Data quality is the foundation that EHS insights are built upon. When EHS data suffers from poor data quality, insights are eroded and the information that was once on a stable foundation is no longer suitable for analytics.

Many companies starting their data analytics journey make the mistake of skipping the data cleaning process all together. None of us want to see how the sausage is made, we just want the bratwurst to magically appear. But as we have seen over and over, insightful analytics cannot be achieved with poor data quality.

Only 3% of Data Meets Quality Standards

A 2017 Harvard Business Review article, “Only 3% of Companies’ Data Meets Basic Quality Standards,” outlined the data quality crisis best, stating that, “Forty-seven percent of newly-created data records have at least one critical (e.g., work-impacting) error.”… Read more...

The Boeing 737 MAX is Cleared for Takeoff: What Have we Learned?

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Boeing 737 MAX Recertification Means it’s Ready to Fly

In the midst of the gloom that has settled over the airline industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boeing is experiencing perhaps its best news of 2020: the Boeing 737 MAX, which has been grounded worldwide for almost two years after two horrifying crashes in 2018 and 2019, has been cleared to fly worldwide. On the heels of this news, orders for the 737 MAX have begun coming in, with Irish budget airline Ryanair ordering 210 aircraft as part of its plan to expand its services across Europe.


What Caused the 737 MAX Air Disasters?


The story of the design flaws that led to the crashes is well known. When Boeing’s competitor Airbus announced an upgraded version of its A320 to compete with Boeing’s 737, Boeing decided to upgrade the 737. To get this done as quickly as possible, Boeing rushed through a series of redesigns, among them … Read more...

How a Robust EHS Solution can Help you Address COVID-19 Related Challenges in your Organization

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With the profusion of COVID-19 related information readily available, it’s critical to focus on the things you can control and to create an action-based plan of attack. While creating long-term plans is important, there are actions that should be taken today.

It makes sense to start with identifying the resources and tools that you need to successfully protect employees. Once you’ve established buy-in from leadership, develop a dedicated task force (if possible) that combines EHS, quality, production, human resources and other internal shareholders who can help develop a return-to-work strategy. Once that task force has been created, the next step is to identify the tools required to address this.

Gaining Insights from Organizations Who Launched Employee Benefit-Focused COVID-19 Response Programs

Since the outbreak of this pandemic, there have been some companies that have introduced some innovative solutions to manage issues they have faced related to COVID-19. These success stories have … Read more...

Enhance Your COVID-19 Response Tactics via Our Top 10 Practices

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With COVID-19 continuing to have a profound impact on businesses today, organizations are turning to robust tools, enhanced processes and subject matter expertise to help them address current challenges. In fact, experts claim that implementing a multi-faced approach is the only way to ensure that health risks are mitigated, the spread is slowed down and, equally as importantly, that business continuity is ensured.

The logical questions are then: how do we go about doing this and where do we start? As they say, when you don’t know where to begin, start anywhere.

Achieving Long-Term Results | A 3-Pronged Approach

To find solutions to the ever-growing challenges of this crisis, we can break them down into 3 main categories. These are:  internal processes and practices, the provision of proper equipment and cleaning supplies and implementing Health and Safety-specific tools.

Our Expertise in a One-Stop Shop

As leaders in the ESHQ space, … Read more...