Correspondingly, it is clear now more than
ever that EHS risks are becoming a tremendous
force to be reckoned with. Compliance and the
costs associated with it are affecting the dayto-day productivity of growing organizations.
Regulators are becoming increasingly stringent;
NGO’s more and more active, while consumers
go in search of sustainable products. In today’s
world every corporate action has a social media
reaction or overreaction. With such implications,
companies must do what they can to preserve
image as well as increase
profit and prevent avoidable
expenditures.
If we see Sustainability
as a framework for business
growth, you, the EHS corporate professional should not
only understand your own
company’s vision on sustainability but also appreciate the role EHS plays in it.
This being said, it is necessary for those in charge of
EHS management to acknowledge that incorporating well-designed EHS
and sustainability development programs into everything done is the first step to ensure your organization is benefiting in significant ways.
Steps towards Integration
Sustainability goals can become clear and
more achievable when regulation management
becomes the framework. Proactive EHS and Sustainability programs can do more for your company together then they can alone, and benefits
can appear in a range of areas company-wide.
Among these benefits are enhancing your organizations’ reputation, increasing revenue while
saving money, and enhancing employee relations
and drive. By incorporating and interweaving
EHS standards into sustainability, objectives will
become clearer and monitoring compliance will
become an easier task overall.
Enhesa Flash Nov/Dec 2013
Benefiting your organizations in
significant ways: Reduce Risk/
Promote Compliance
The trend is clear: more and more consumers
are opting for what they perceive to be sustainable
products, and organizations want to communicate that they are satisfying the needs of these
consumers. The goal becomes: to deliver goods
and services through consistently environmentally sustainable and
safe means. This is
most possible when
EHS and Sustainability management
work together as one
force. One example
of doing so is creating a single source of
operating instructions
and procedures that
will serve as a framework throughout the
entire
organization
and its institutions.
Integrating both will bring positive outcomes.
Sustainability, a
growing trend
in competing
businesses, must
be seen as a
framework for
business growth
Enhancing reputation with
clients, stakeholders and public
Companies striving to grow with a positive
reputation must invest in strong EHS management and sustainability development as well as
develop a corporate image devoted to achieving
and going beyond compliance. To do so it is essential to start with at least complying with environmental, health and safety regulations by developing a systematic approach to doing so. This
is what consumers now demand from an organization as the bare minimum. External communication of the achieving of impressive EHS goals
should be encouraged.
Increase Profit & Saving Money
To ensure an increase in profit, it is important to no longer see punishment from regulators
as a cost of doing business. This mentality only
leads to more money being spent unnecessarily on fines for non-compliance and less money
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