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Six Steps to Developing a Successful EHS Training Program
Designing an EHS training program that both fits the budget and delivers comprehensive courses is a challenge to every EHS professional. This article outlines six steps to help you implement a new training program or jump start an existing one.
10 Things Every EHS Professional Should Commit to Achieving This Year
What kind of resolutions is the savvy EHS professional making this year? Here are ten resolutions that lead to great results.
Boosting EHS within the Organization
As customers demand better EHS performance, this opens the door to boosting the value of the EHS function within the organization. Here are five ways that an EHS individual or function can achieve this enhanced value.
Meeting the ROHS and WEEE challenge: Are You Ready?
This article discusses the two laws, WEEE and RoHS, which currently impact the global electronics industry. It provides an update on the status of each and lists tips and resources that will help you stay current on fast-changing product stewardship developments.
Today’s EHS Landscape—Navigating the Changes
This article offers ideas about the current trends in EHS across the US and beyond.
Future Science: Developing Tomorrow's EHS Professionals
With a shifting labor pool and a distinctly different generation, what can we do to attract and retain quality EHS employees? Some tips and case studies of the next generation in EHS.
Four Reasons to Integrate EHS into Your Business Operation
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) can achieve dramatic efficiency results when integrated into current business management systems such as: Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, ISO, Just-in-Time, and 5-S.
Back to the Basics: Analyzing Job Hazards and Safety
Job Hazard Analysis and Job Safety Analysis are standard tools in every safety engineer’s toolbox. With the right awareness training and adequate experience, they are effective ways to uncover hazards and review job methods.
Developing & Implementing Your HSE Management System: What to Look At, What to Avoid
If your company does not have a Health, Safety and Environmental Management System (HSE-MS) in place now, you may be required to implement one soon. Company size, resource availability or markets served will not necessarily dictate when and if implementation will happen. And even though your organization may have many of the components in place already for an easy transition to ISO 14001 or OHSAS 18001, the road to an effective HSE-MS can be fast, furious and paved with various pitfalls.
People, Planet, Profit: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility

You can’t fake a corporate soul. Either you have one or you’d better create one fast.
--Faith Popcorn

The biggest question surrounding corporate social responsibility is not “Is this the right thing to do?” but a more succinctly, “Why should we do this?” Good, profitable business and CSR are not mutually exclusive. There are many solid reasons and proven arguments as to why CSR is good business; this article highlights five key drivers.
Making the Decision to Outsource
Challenging economic times force businesses to respond quickly to fluctuations in workforce while maintaining a high degree of staff competency. Today, more and more companies are deciding to outsource rather than invest in permanent headcount. There are many philosophical and economic reasons as to why outsourcing the Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) function in a company makes good business sense.
Truth or Consequences… Facts about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires public companies to meet stringent requirements in order to improve the quality of corporate financial reporting and was passed in part to restore investor confidence in the marketplace after the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals.
Building Business Value
Environment, health and safety programs have traditionally been geared toward managing risks and achieving compliance with regulatory requirements. Success was once measured by the extent to which a company avoided costly penalties, lawsuits and cleanups. But now, added incentive to improve EHS performance beyond “material compliance” is coming from the most important entity of all—the customer. This article explores why customers are demanding stronger EHS performance across the supply chain, how customers are getting information about their suppliers’ EHS performance, the likely consequences of these new demands for suppliers and specific steps that EHS professionals can take to enhance their performance.