Edition No. 14
EORM Priority Press - October 2005
EORM's Priority Press is a quarterly newsletter that provides up-to-date information about environmental, health, and safety (EHS), business process optimization, industry trends, and upcoming events.
Boosting EHS Value Within Your Organization
As customers demand better environmental, health, and safety (EHS) performance from their suppliers, this opens the door to boosting the value of the EHS function within the organization. EHS programs have traditionally been geared to managing risk and achieving compliance. But recently, there has been a trend in large, global companies to improve EHS performance beyond compliance. This trend has been championed by the customer in a pursuit of quality down through intricate supply chains. Here are five ways that an EHS individual or function can achieve this value augmentation.
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Process Safety Management – Is your Program integrated into your Business Processes?
Process safety management program compliance has recently hit the headlines and is becoming a hot button in the regulatory community. If your organization is due for a PHA revalidation, three year compliance audit, or RMP update, keep reading for more information and online resources concerning the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Process Safety Management Standard (PSM).
Beyond Compliance: Achieving Safety Excellence Through eLearning
Occupational health and safety excellence improves organizational performance. The benefit of reaching beyond compliance to safety excellence is a much debated goal that can be approached from several different directions.
In this article, Ron Kirsch, Ph.D., vice president of Business Development at PureSafety, discusses the use of technology for delivering online training, measuring the effectiveness of training, and eLearning’s role in driving safety excellence.
Zavitz on Ergo: How Ergonomics Affects the Bottom Line
People are the most important commodity of any organization. Designing work based on human capabilities is a must if companies are to survive in today’s business climate. This quarter our roving ergo expert, Ben Zavitz looks at how integrating internal productivity with external productivity initiatives will significantly improve your company’s bottom line and shareholder value.
And the Survey says...
Since the first issue of Priority Press in 2003, our goal has been to deliver information that updates, educates, and excites our readers about environmental, health, and safety topics.
With the summer issue of Priority Press, we launched our second industry survey which, we are happy to report, received much response. At the end of the survey, we promised that the results would be included in an upcoming issue. Keep reading because we found some pretty interesting trends.
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