EHS Software Services entries

Top 5 Reasons for a University-Wide EHS System

University EHS programs have proven a key component to building a world class university.  Managing materials inventory and compliance, ensuring faculty and student safety and tracking corrective actions are a must.  But, a lot of EHS departments have difficulty in convincing administrators for the need of a university wide EHS system. Justifying the investment in an EHS system can be difficult. Here’s a checklist of the top 5 signs your university needs to invest in EHS software for better environmental, health, and safety management. EHS incidents are costly. Costs related to safety usually manifest themselves in claims and fines. Preventing [...]

Three EHS KPIs That You Are Probably Not Tracking

What is the goal of an Enterprise EHS system?   The typical enterprise implementation will cost over $250,000, and almost half of them fail within the first three years.  With such a low rate of success, what are EHS organizations doing to contribute to this high failure rate? One thing EHS organizations can do to improve their ROI is establish better KPI measurements. Having been around a lot of successful implementations, the EHS departments that succeed have systems that are aligned with EHS’s goal of creating a safety culture.  If your company is thinking and acting safer, then incident rates [...]

EHS Software Life Span

With the continued demand for transparency and the increased need of enterprise-wide risk analysis, the use of software tools is increasingly indispensable to managing global EHS projects.   Most global EHS programs have implemented software solutions, but very few are happy with their decisions.  According to NAEM’s 2017 EHS & Sustainability Software Buyers Guide, almost 50% are shopping for a new solution less than 5 years after implementing their existing software. There are several things an EHS Organization can do to extend their EHS software life span. The more relevant and current the software stays, the higher the ROI is. [...]

Improving University’s EHS Systems

The mission of EHS for world class universities is to provide and support comprehensive environmental, health and safety programs and services in support of the university’s mission of teaching, research and service.  Developing an EHS culture helps attract top professors and administrators to the university.  Decide Consulting is now bringing their EHS software expertise to education institutions with its DecisionEHS practice. DecisionEHS is Decide Consulting’s EHS Process and Audit software review.  During the DecisionEHS process, we review: All EHS software data sources Reporting inputs and outputs Make detailed recommendations based upon our findings. All of this at optimal price point [...]

Agile EHS – Creating a Safety Culture through Continuous Improvement

Good safety  practices create a culture of anticipating possible events and planning ahead to maximize our likelihood of achieving safe outcomes.  In our previous article, we looked at the four point workplace program and how it is already Agile.  A question to ask now of EHS is, given the fast cadence to which the world operates, how do we adapt the old four point workplace program? Decide Consulting’s approach to ERM systems is to use software to create a safety culture.  A robust ERM system combined with an Agile approach to safety can create a culture focusing on adaptability, [...]