Transportation

Controlling Chaos

How do you keep track of all the moving pieces?

It requires a large number of people, and a vast collection of trucks, ships, trains and airplanes to keep materials moving seamlessly between points. This traffic is literally the engine that drives international commerce. However, the movement of freight from one point to another is rarely achieved in a straight line, and all of these moving pieces present a complex set of risk management challenges that intersect a wide range of global regulations.

When it’s your job to assert order into mix, it can be hard to know where to start. Do you put out the existing fires first, or go to work on establishing new processes that can provide greater relief down the road? What’s more important, incident management or compliance management, chemical safety or employee training, audits and inspections or performance metrics? And once you decide, how do you get your people, many of whom are spread throughout the supply chain — offsite and acting as independent agents — to participate in a meaningful way?

The business of transportation is one of the oldest and proudest industries, and it attracts strong willed people. In other words, change doesn’t always come easy. In regards to EHS, this can translate into an over reliance on inefficient environment, health and safety tracking and reporting methods — like relying on paper and spreadsheets to handle tasks better suited to the cloud. Unfortunately, with supply and demand margins running thin, companies operating at capacity, and stiff competition, there is no room for operational inefficiencies. The time for an EHS software solution is now, and whatever solution you choose has to work— or your people won’t use it.

VelocityEHS

Whether your operations stretch from city-limit to city-limit, or sea to shining sea, VelocityEHS can help you connect to every employee, in every location, via a simple, single platform. We’re already helping over 12,000 customers do that with over 8 million users. It’s real-time visibility into EHS activities across your enterprise. You can report on all of the moving pieces at once, or isolate a location to drill deeper into localized issues.

The best part is, rather than having to spend your time tracking down information and asking people to input data, the VelocityEHS Platform is designed to engage people throughout your organization. With simple forms that can be accessed from smart phones and tablets via the cloud, our solutions make safety an easy part of every employees job, meaning you can now share responsibility for the overall safety and compliance of the company with everyone in the organization.

The transportation industry has been a leader is leveraging technologies in many areas, especially when it comes to logistics. We can help you leverage our cloud solution to achieve productivity gains through EHS excellence. The VelocityEHS Platform is your copilot for meeting regulatory compliance managing risk. Now you can see who’s been trained, know what audits and inspections are due, run detailed risk analysis, track international compliance deadlines and obligations, and deploy the industry’s best chemical management information to everyone in your organization. It’s a chance to be the EHS leader you’ve wanted to be if you had the time.