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 [...]

By |March 22nd, 2018|EHS Software Services, Featured|0 Comments
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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 [...]

By |March 14th, 2018|EHS Software Services, Thought Leaders|0 Comments
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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 [...]

By |March 6th, 2018|EHS Software Services, Thought Leaders|0 Comments
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AGILE EHS – IS SAFETY ALREADY AGILE?

One of the things we have encountered delivering Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) software solutions is how safety professionals have been working Agile for a very long time.  Things that are new to the software delivery sector have been in practice for decades in the safety world.  If you look at the four-point workplace program delivered by OSHA in 1989, there is a lot of common threads to what is Agile today. MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AND EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT Agile is all about empowering team member to keep developers developing, testers testing and analysts writing requirements.  From an EHS standpoint it [...]

By |January 25th, 2018|EHS Software Services, Thought Leaders|0 Comments
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Apply Agile Methodology to Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Projects

Navigating the rough waters of keeping a EHS job site safe is a complicated and difficult undertaking. Managing the communication across departments, risks, audits and action items can make staying organized difficult and slow down EHS initiatives.  And when an accident happens, the reactive nature of fixing the cause of the accident throws off all the proactive efforts that are done to prevent accidents in the first place. Interestingly, Agile methodology. long favored by the software development community, lends itself well to the EHS process. You don’t have to go into a safety project hoping and praying that accidents won’t [...]

By |January 4th, 2018|EHS Software Services|0 Comments
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