4 ways to teach your ehs to speak risk
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In Environmental Health and Safety solutions, Risk is found throughout business operations. Whether in process design, general operations or continuous improvement initiatives - we are seeing opportunities to built in risk-based methods to help foster tighter compliance. In just 5 minutes, we'll show you how you can apply common risk methods to your Environmental Health and Safety Management System.TRANSCRIPT
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4 Way to Teach your EHS to Speak Risk
Tim Lozier, EtQ, Inc.
Risk and Compliance Go Hand in Hand
Changes to regulations, processes, products…
…make it harder to maintain compliance
Risk is becoming the benchmark for compliance in EHS
Risk in the EHS System
1. Use Risk to Filter Critical Incidents
• Incidents Happen!
– Need to collect extensive data
– Need to know how to escalate incidents
• Filter Incidents to make Decisions on Actions
– Help foster better decision-making – Systematic methods through Risk Matrices
• Risk Matrix helps to determine level/severity of Incidents
2. Risk Benchmarking of JSA
• Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
– Determines the hazards behind job steps
– Implements controls, PPE for each hazard
• Risk adds another dimension to JSA
– Benchmarks risk methods against JSA
– Hazards are coupled with a risk level
– Seek ways to reduce the overall risk of the job
• Risk quantifies JSA more thoroughly
3. Risk in Corrective Actions
• Corrective Action provides a means to correct systemic issues
– Root Cause, Corrective Action, Effectiveness
– But…It is effective within Risk parameters?
• Add risk to Effectiveness Checks!
– Did the Corrective Action correct the issue within acceptable risk levels?
– If not, then maybe it’s not as effective as it should be!
4. Risk Reporting in the Enterprise
• Reporting is key to any business system
– Helps to make sense of the data
– Provides visibility into your Operations…however
• Executives don’t speak EHS – but they speak RISK!!
– By building risk into EHS, you can report in a common language of compliance!
• Risk Reporting provides operational data that can uncover trends at the enterprise level
Risk Enhances EHS Compliance
• Risk Management fosters better, more consistent decision-making
• Consistency in decisions = more efficiency
• More efficiency = better speed + tighter compliance
• The math doesn’t lie – teach your EHS to speak risk!
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EtQ’s Blog on EHS Risk
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