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The Importance of EHS and EHS software as its Digital Support

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Last Edited: Sep 10, 2020 By: Aileen Fernando Alim

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Environment, Health, and Safety, or popularly referred to as EHS is an ambiguous term referring to EHS regulations and rules mandated by a state, as well as the efforts and programs companies carry out in a workplace to protect and uphold the wellbeing, safety, and health not only of their employees and customers but also of the public within the same environment. A part of its fundamental goals is ensuring that a workplace is free from hazards and risks.

“The main purpose of EHS mandate is to urge companies to implement EHS programs that monitor and prevent work-related incidents such as illnesses, injuries, and dangerous environmental releases.”

The concept has been founded to address the rising number of work-related incidents and accidents that had been noted in the past. A few of these unforgettable, tragic incidents were the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Union/Bhopal Carbide explosion that took place in the mid 1980s, the Upper Big Branch Mine-South explosion and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill that went down in 2010, and the tragic fire and building collapse of Savar in Bangladesh that happened in 2013.

Hazards in a workplace do exist and this is exactly what EHS laws and EHS management programs are trying to eradicate; to ensure that employees are working under safety standards and no one in the public suffers the potential consequences or effects of business operations. To better exercise this goal, the law mandates employers to comply and take part in it.

Companies with an active EHS culture are less prone to incidents and injuries and this has proven to have boosted the morale of employees as they felt more valued and secured. Other proven after-effect of a good EHS management includes higher productivity and retention rate.

EHS Software; A digital EHS management support

EHS management is more than just for compliance but it is a huge responsibility with a number of critical areas that need to be monitored and analysed from time to time. Because of this, a lot of companies nowadays invest in a digital EHS management support known as EHS software to better keep up with the EHS regulations while maintaining safety in any business operations.




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