Over the last couple of decades, Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) have become increasingly easy for chemical users to acquire electronically. Most manufacturers host up-to-date copies on their websites, readily available to the public. With the increasing accessibility to SDSs, the … Read More
EHS professionals
Sustainability Reporting: What it means for EHS
Sustainability reporting is a communication method for businesses to report on their social and environmental performance and declare their commitment to sustainability goals. Over the past forty years, the concept of sustainability reporting has gained significant momentum. Depending on their … Read More
Integrating Industry 4.0 into Environmental Health and Safety Practices
Industry 4.0 revolutionizes what used to be “business as usual.” Building on the hard-earned gains from previous paradigm shifts in production, the world now enters the era of big data and never-before-seen levels of automation and interconnectivity. Dramatic improvements in … Read More
The Advantage of ESG for EHS Professionals
For decades, EHS professionals have been reporting on environmental health and occupational safety at the workplace. The earliest purpose of EHS was to reach compliance standards and keep reputational risk at bay. This was only a standard for some high-risk … Read More
Assessing the Quality of Chemical Safety Information
On March 11, the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS) held an on-line “CHAS-chat” that discussed Quality Data for Safer Experiments. Given the increasing use of general-purpose search engines such as Google to collect hazard information, … Read More
Managing Facility Data for the Covid Era
The fast-moving nature of the Covid pandemic has created significant challenges for facility managers. Building occupants want to understand how the building they’re working in impacts their potential exposure to the Corona virus. This interest as led to a lot … Read More
