Environmental concerns have never been more important than in this day and age we are living in now. It does not matter whether you are selling direct to the public, or into another industry, environmental concerns form part of your company. Most purchasing agents would agree that if factors such as delivery, quality, and pricing were equal they would rather choose vendors which have Environmental Management System (EMS) programs in place than those who do not.
Environmental guidelines are already imposed by some purchasing departments for their vendors. If you are considered as a small supplier, you should remember that all down line vendors are taken into account by all Environmental Management System programs. This could have a negative impact on your current business relationship.
Prevents Insurance Rate Hikes
Insurance companies are only now realising the excessive costs associated with environmental clean-up. The special insurance riders they make use off have a direct cost impact on the customer.
A certified Environmental Management System protects businesses from additional environmental insurance rate hikes.
Financial Support Gained
Whether you are a multi-national corporation or simply a one man operation, fact is you will always have to work with outside contributors regarding the funding of your business. Those who might have a direct stake in your business include shareholders, investors, or your local bank. These mentioned contributors will support you that much more if they know you are very serious about environmental responsibilities, no matter what their investment category.
Differentiating yourself from your competitors
A documented Environmental Management System can be considered as your “trump card”. The general public and purchasing agents in particular are on the look-out for something that sets you apart from other companies offering the same. Thus, if your business has a solid Environmental Management System program, you can be sure that it will not go by unnoticed by purchasing agents.
Apart from setting you apart from your competition, it can also open up new opportunities for the future. For example, big companies will not even think of buying from you if you do not have an Environmental Management System program in place. Having an Environmental Management System in place is a requirement all their vendors must comply to. Although this currently applies only to tier one vendors, it could soon include all vendors supplying tier one vendors. This in turn means that if big companies are supplied by one of your customers, they could soon be required to buy only from companies with an established Environmental Management System.
Compliance to Government Standards
In order to ensure that you comply above and beyond all national requirements, you should have a documented Environmental Management System in place. The embarrassment of violating environmental regulations can thus be avoided.
Having an established Environmental Management System in place also allows you to participate in various environmental programs held annually. You can look forward to many additional benefits once you form part of such programs.
Improved Productivity
The main goal of an Environmental Management System program is to find and address efficiency through the conservation and reduction of energy and materials. Cost savings should thus be the lasting result. However, the results will vary from one business to the next, because all businesses differ. Learning skills needed to pinpoint potential cost reductions are of the utmost importance.
International Trade Standards Compliance
Stringent environmental regulations were imposed in many countries over the last few years. All businesses working with overseas clients will have experienced this. Canada, China, the EU, and India in particular imposed environmental regulations which are extremely strict. Other countries are thus coming to the realization that in order for fair trade to continue, they too have to up their environmental regulations. They should also adapt to the ever changing environmental laws or risk billions in trade revenue.
Savings through Effective Waste Management
Cost savings can also be achieved through the conservation and reduction of waste disposal. If all processes leading up to waste is conserved and reduced, your byproduct will be less waste. Costs related to compliance, waste hauling, storage, and disposal are thus eliminated.
INTELEX
Intelex cloud-based software manages environment, health & safety, quality and suppliers for regulatory compliance, and streamline ISO initiatives.
- Document Control
- Communications Management
- Meetings Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Permits Management
- Legal and Other Requirements
- Environmental Aspects and Impacts
- Sustainability Performance Indicators
- Compliance Assurance
- Regulatory Content Gateways
- Air Emissions Management
- Water Quality Management
- Waste Management
- Refrigerant Management
- Asset and Compliance Tracking System (ACTS)
EHSINSIGHT
EHS Software by EHS Insight empowers you to manage incidents, audits and inspections, compliance obligations, corrective actions and more.
- Sustainability Software
- Air, Water, and Waste Management Software
- ISO 14001 Software
- Compliance Obligations
- Permit Management and Compliance
- Environmental Releases and Spills
- Audit Management Software System
- Chemical Inventory & Waste Management System Software
- Employee Training Tracking & Management Software
ENABLON
Enablon solutions help companies manage environmental and social performance, ensure compliance, minimize risks and improve profitability by leveraging some of the world’s most advanced technologies.
- Reduce Environmental Impacts
- Improve Environmental Performance
- Mitigate Environmental Risks
- Meet and Surpass ISO 14001 Requirements
CORITY
Cority’s Environmental Management System Software helps to centralize and streamline the tracking and collection of key environmental data.
- Air Emissions
- Waste Water
- Waste Management
- Chemical Management
- Compliance Management
- Management of Change
- Metrics
- Business Intelligence
- Audits
- Inspections
QUALSYS
Qualsys modular best-of-breed governance, risk & compliance management software. Engage your workforce. Give leadership a picture of your business. Free end user licenses. 400+ implementations. User-friendly. Available via cloud or hosted. Experience with global brands & SMEs. Based in UK.
- Document Manager
- Equipment maintenance software
- Accident and Incident Manager
- Risk Manager
- Supplier compliance management software
- Bespoke modules
- Training records management software
INXSOFTWARE
Complete sample runs and field log sheets both online and from our easy to use mobile application
- Automatically collect data from the lab, field, mobile, monitoring equipment/stations, spreadsheets or website type data all in one database
- Upload an unlimited number of organisational and laboratory COC templates with sampling information captured on the Field Log Sheet
- Capture environmental data using various import tools
- View exceedance alerts from imported data and address these
- Assign actions to users and be notified of items assigned to you
- Visualise the results of your monitoring programs through a GIS viewer
- Track changes through the system for auditing purposes
- Measure and manage sustainability related indicators across environmental, social and governance performance in line with the GRI framework
- and More.
ERA-ENVIRONMENTAL
ERA Environmental Management Solutions offers expert EH&S compliance and management advice and innovative EHS software. ERA provides out of the box solutions for environmental, health & safety, sustainability, and compliance management. ERA EHS software is designed by environmental scientists.
- Cost-Efficient Environmental Management
- Improve reporting accuracy and efficiency
- Track any process, any emission
DAKOTASOFT
Environmental, Health & Safety Software for EHS compliance, audits, inspections, incidents, corrective actions, risk analysis and reporting.
- Compliance Planning
- Corrective And Preventive Action Management
- EHS Auditing
- Incident And Accident Management
- GHG Energy Management
- Waste Management
- Water Compliance
- Air Emissions
- Permit Management
- Refrigerant Management
DONESAFE
Donesafe will help you comply with regulations, protect people and assets, streamline business processes and foster a culture of environmental, health and safety & quality (EHSQ) excellence.
- Mobile App
- Offline Capable
- Live Support
- Custom Reports
- Multi-platform
- Dashboards
- Custom Branding
- Automation
- Configurability
- Actions
- 27001 Security
- Data Migration
- Single Sign On
- Data Exporter
- Analytics
- API Access
- KPI Monitoring
- Smart Forms
- User Roles
- Scheduler
- Signatures
- Language Translator
- Search Bar
MANGOLIVE
Small & midsize businesses, in particular, find environmental management challenging and time-consuming. Their efforts are usually on-off – or at best haphazard – and with no long-lasting systems in place.
- Managing, reviewing, correcting and improving the documentation
- Identifying, assessing and controlling aspects and impacts using the risk management module
- Controlling all the emergency preparedness activities in the event management module
- Formalising the legal requirements in a central documents repository
- Highlighting the objectives and targets to all staff in the documents module
- All environmental incidents are recorded easily in Mango in the accident/incident module
- With all of this data we have developed a unique report writer that will analyse your environmental performance in real time.
EMISOFT
Improve sustainability with an environmental management system that offers faster, more accurate data collection. Gain complete visibility of your environmental performance with Emisoft, the EMS trusted by Statoil, Borealis, ConocoPhillips, Leroy Seafood and more.
- Discharge to Water
- Fuel Management
- Emissions to Air
- Greenhouse Gas Reporting
- Waste Management
- Water Management
- Chemical Management
- Noise & Vibration Sampling
- Production
- Laboratory Reporting
- Oil Drilling
- Radioactivity Reporting
- Incident Reporting
- Energy Management
CHEMICALSAFETY
Chemicalsafety EHS software includes GHS labeling, safety data sheets, chemical inventory tracking, hazardous waste management, and environmental regulatory reporting.
- GHS Labels
- Safety Data Sheets
- Chemical Inventory Tracking
- Hazardous Waste Management
- Environmental Regulatory Reporting
- EHS Mobile Applications
QUENTIC
Software for health and safety, environment and sustainability. Officially confirmed to be suitable for management systems as specified in ISO 14001, ISO 50001 and OHSAS 18001.
- Legal certainty
- Certification
- Browser-based
- Increase efficiency