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Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Your Risk Matrices: An Honest Discussion with a VelocityEHS Risk Expert
For more than ten years as a technical safety and risk expert, Dana Garber has seen many corporate leaders struggle to implement risk management systems. The reason: the use of poorly built risk matrices. Often, they were built without end goals in mind, or were copied from someone’s previous project or work experience. During this […]
EPA Enforcement: Maintaining Compliance in 2023 & Beyond
Register today! Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforces a broad spectrum of regulations under more than 30 environmental laws covering nearly 800,000 facilities across the US. If your business manufactures or uses large volumes of chemical products, emits any type of air or wastewater pollutants, or generates and handles hazardous waste, you very likely have a […]
Integrating Risk Assessments for Effective Management of Change
This webinar explores the dynamic relationship between Management of Change (MOC) and risk assessments, focusing on the types of assessments required for different change scenarios: process changes, design changes, and personnel changes. Aligning the appropriate risk assessment types with the corresponding changes helps to ensure comprehensive, effective risk mitigation at your organization. We will examine the […]
Using Chemical Management & Green Chemistry to Improve Your ESG Maturity & Value Chain Relationships
While corporate leadership is increasingly focused on Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), it is easy to overlook the key role that effective chemical management plays in shaping ESG maturity. Chemical choices can pose safety and environmental compliance risks, increase air pollutants, and some may create hazardous waste. But chemical choices also impact sustainability […]
Canada’s Updated WHMIS Requirements: How to Ensure Compliance
If you’re a supplier or user of hazardous products in Canada, challenging times are ahead. In January 2023, Health Canada published a final rule in the Canada Gazette to update the Hazardous Product Regulations (HPR) to align with more recent editions of the UN’s Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). These […]
Why Your Ergonomics Software Should Follow a Plan, Do, Check, Act Process
The Shewhart cycle, or Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) as it is more commonly known, is an effective management system for improving programs in a variety of disciplines, including EHS. Successful ergonomics programs use PDCA for both the Job Improvement Process and overall program management. Organizations that struggle to maintain an effective ergonomics program typically stall in the […]
Weathering the Storm: How ESG Maturity Helps You Maintain EHS Compliance in Challenging Times
Many discussions of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) correctly talk about benefits like operational excellence, return on investment (ROI), and positive brand identity, but those can seem remote to the average EHS professional struggling to maintain compliance with EHS regulations. Perhaps you’re one of the many EHS professionals wondering how ESG can benefit you, and […]
The EHS to ESG Journey: Why You Should Care
Traditional EHS management has focused on goals such as identification and reduction of workplace risks resulting in threats to the safety and health of employees and the environment, or in violations of major regulations. However, that’s all changing due to the rise of an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) approach. ESG is gaining ground because […]
2023 Ergonomics Virtual Conference: “Better Root Cause Analysis Yields Effective Ergonomics Controls”
Register today for “Better Root Cause Analysis Yields Effective Ergonomics Controls” Safety and quality management systems have demonstrated that root cause analysis is a necessary precursor to identifying effective ergonomics solutions. There are several approaches an ergonomics team can use to help determine the actionable data to highlight the causes, such as: During this session, […]
2023 Ergonomics Virtual Conference: “Ergonomics & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I): They’re One and the Same”
Register today. As investor demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) information rises, organizations expect business leaders to develop a strategic approach to corporate sustainability and integrate ESG risk management into their financial and operational models. This includes improving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace. So, how does ergonomics relate to DE&I? Well, […]