EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety) performance is better than lukewarm continuous improvement. How to raise awareness, transform practices in depth to set up real indicators, and a real culture, and really improve risk management and associated performance in the field? What are the issues related to the control of health and safety in the world of work?
It is a global issue both for companies and for all socio-economic players and states.
The average estimates of the International Labor Office and the World Health Organization count 2 million deaths per year at work in the world (i.e. approximately 1 death every 20 seconds), including 1.7 million related to occupational diseases and 300 000 as a result of accidents (to which are added 268 million accidents with stoppage of more than 3 days).
In comparison, the military casualties recorded during World War I were 2 million deaths per year, which is equivalent to the deaths on the job each year in the world. Beyond all the human and ethical issues, the economic weight of deaths at work, estimated at 1,250 billion dollars, or 4% of global GDP, is also considerable.
However, more solidarity, shared effort, and fairness in exchanges are needed, while reducing the risks at source. In this respect, despite its complexity, some regulations set an example and establish a new dynamic in this area which should necessarily be extended to all countries in order to generalize preventive measures and not shift the associated risks and accidents to less economically advanced areas of the world. The overall figures reflect a very wide disparity between the different regions of the world. Estimates of fatal accidents each year at work indicate 5,500 in the United States, 100,000 in China, 6,000 in Russia, and 40,000 in South America…
All this is still too much!
An integrated compliance approach is needed Why compliance? Because with compliance, an organization/company can avoid EHS-related risks. However, complying with all EHS-related obligations is difficult to do manually. Very difficult, even impossible. How can a person or group of people sift through hundreds of regulations, standards, and applicable laws while making sure the company doesn’t violate any of them?
An automated solution is needed!
Modern companies work in very complex situations, involving many aspects in each of their activities. What’s more, every year there must be updates targeting applicable regulations, standards, and laws. Thus, a solution that can identify (quickly) a company’s compliance with a standard or regulation automatically is urgently needed. The solution must also be adaptive to the changes that occur every year. The solution in question is an automatic solution in the form of software or application. There are many EHS compliance software created to assist companies in complying with internal and external obligations but not every one of them is feasible. EHS regulations can be managed with the help of special software, one of which is developed by Nimonik Inc.
We introduce Nimonik’s EHS compliance software!
This is EHS compliance software developed by Nimonik Inc., a technology company based in Canada. With dozens of compliance experts on board, Nimonik Inc. has proven to deliver compliance software capable of:
– identify regulations, standards, and laws that apply to a particular company activity.
– extract liability as part of the compliance audit protocol.
– set a risk rating as a basis for action according to the priority scale.
– perform internal inspection process.
– and many more.
Nimonik’s EHS compliance software ensures company compliance with all internal and external obligations related to EHS. With this automated solution, every company can minimize the risks that may occur due to violations of the Environment, Health, and Safety aspects.
