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MiMfg Magazine
March 2020
EH&S: Your Missing Business Solution
By Brianne Ray • LyfeCycle
In today’s world, modernized environment,
health and safety (EH&S) programs are now far
more than just meeting compliance and checking
boxes. Rather, they are the critical heartbeat of
keeping an organization safe for its employees,
compliant and focused on environmental loyalty. In
the simplest of terms, EH&S is what organizations
must do to ensure that their activities do not cause harm.
From a health & safety standpoint, EH&S
involves creating standardized procedures to identify
workplace hazards while reducing accidents and
exposure to harmful situations and substances. In
addition to tracking and housing important data
that occurs at your organization, what is the best
way to use it for the holistic benefit in effecting
overall organizational health and improvement?
This is where technology is evolving EH&S
to the next level…
• Spreadsheets, binders, and paper forms are a
thing of the past. Intelligent analysis of EH&S,
Corrective Action/Risk Mitigation, Environ-
mental Impact Reduction, Universal Corporate
Perspective, and Scalability are critical elements
in today’s EH&S world! A well-rounded EH&S
program promotes goal setting, metrics, data
detail, and corrective action in an easily accessible
way, in order to progressively improve and
manage EH&S day to day. No matter the type
of manufacturer, size, or headcount; an EH&S
program guided by a technical solution is critical.
Sophistication, intelligence, and ease of use
promotes a vested interest in continuous im-
provement of employee well-being and environ-
mental impact.
• Understanding what your organization does well
within EH&S, where it needs improvement,
how dollars are affected, and how environment
is impacted by your organization is what matters
in today’s manufacturing world. LyfeCycle was
created specifically with the manufacturer in
mind, with custom functionality that gears
exactly toward what matters in managing a
successful program. The ability to generate
actionable data to be used for improvement
and understanding is what LyfeCycle was built
for. LyfeCycle creates an experience that is
user-friendly, actionable, customizable and
undeniably a “next level way” to manage EH&S!
• We live in a technology guided world that
enhances the way we think, live, react, and
improve what is all around us. Having the ability
to automate an organization’s EH&S program in
a way that creates actionable data that can be
utilized in multiple forms and for multiple
reasons is how a manufacturer should be viewing
EH&S. Doing things the same old manual way
from decades past with a reactive mentality, only
prevents what pivotal information could be right
at the fingertips to keep employees safer, save
money, set goals, improve customer reputation,
and become more organizationally intelligent!
The commitment and quality to a well-nourished
EH&S program affects the employees, the business
itself in proving environmental responsibility and
quality to its customers and community, and the
longevity/sustainability of keeping an organization
flourishing and successful. How a manufacturer is
viewed from the outside world makes for a positive
reputation with the people involved (employees/
customers) and the environmental aspects it impacts
such as water, greenhouse gas and environmental
reduction. Ours is a solution to help guide and
manage this philosophy in a way that was BUILT
for the manufacturer!
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Brianne Ray is responsible for strategy & client
development for LyfeCycle. She may be reached at
248-830-7290 or [email protected].