Professional Services & Consulting

Investments in EHS&S solutions often require a business justification. For decades, IHS has helped companies define the specific business benefits that will result from a consolidated, enterprise-level EHS&S software solution. Our experts have developed a proven, flexible methodology for working with customers to uncover and analyze their organization’s unique ESM information management requirements and goals – both immediate and long-term.

IHS Value Assessments for EHS&S help you build a credible, verifiable business case for addressing your sustainability challenges, including a detailed look at the level of effort that will be needed to reach those goals. We recommend:

• Business Requirements – Our team translates your business needs to required EHS&S information system functionality and works with you to set priorities.
• Work Flow Analysis – We match specific compliance and sustainability functionality with your daily work processes.
• Technology Review – We meet with your EHS&S and IT teams to review your existing and future enterprise software roadmap.
• Gap Analysis - We assess operational and information flow gaps based upon industry best practices and available technology.

To learn more about IHS Value Assessment Services for EHS&S, email us or request information.

The IHS Consulting and Advisory Services team will help you formulate the best strategies for achieving your company’s ESM business objectives. Our consultants draw upon their decades of global business acumen, functional knowledge and practical experience to provide decision-makers with investment strategies and advice on how to achieve new operational efficiencies while also reducing operational costs and supply chain risks across global markets.

IHS Consulting Services include:

• Strategic Planning - Make sustainability an integral part of your business with a full range of analysis of economic and policy impacts, climate change opportunities and challenges, sustainable agriculture issues, and green-market opportunity assessments.
• Regulatory Compliance - Ensure compliance throughout the life cycle of industrial projects as well as advising governments on how to implement regulations that balance the interests of industrial investors and state treasurers.
• Operational Risk Mitigation - Minimize your company’s risks with services that help you characterize security risks, transportation bottlenecks and regulatory compliance issues.
• GHG and Carbon Footprinting - Understand the size of your greenhouse gas/carbon footprint and its economic impact as well as options for reducing emissions and costs.
• Economic Impact Analysis - Leverage comprehensive assessments for a sector of the economy or specific policy prescriptions of the direct, indirect, and induced effects in terms of employment, value added, labor income, and tax revenues.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis - Use independently validated, fact-based findings and expert interpretations to predict the required level of investment and business value of proposed capital spending projects so you can gain support among key stakeholders.

To learn more about IHS Consulting and Advisory Services for Sustainability, Risk & Compliance, email us or request information.

IHS experts and certified partners are uniquely qualified to provide comprehensive planning and support for your EHS&S software implementation. Our client service directors have decades of field experience and insider knowledge supporting the deployment of market-leading EHS&S systems. We have successfully guided the implementation of EHS&S software solutions for organizations of all sizes across virtually all major industry sectors. 

Our EHS&S Software Implementation team provides:

• Domain Knowledge - Whether you require assistance at a single facility or across a multinational enterprise, the team at IHS understands your business.  Our engineers, business advisors and technical specialists have implemented EHS&S information systems to ensure compliance with complex regulations, standards, permits, and voluntary protocols worldwide.  We know how to leverage those systems to promote best practices that drive operational efficiencies and cost savings.
• Technology Expertise - Our implementers bring unmatched knowledge of the premier EHS software platforms on the market because they are IHS products. Our team is also familiar with various IT environments into which those platforms may be deployed and the work processes that the software supports most effectively.
• Project Management - IHS utilizes all of its distinctive expertise and experience to optimize your enterprise EHS and sustainability software implementation from start to finish. Following Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge standards, we will keep your project moving forward on-target, on-time and on-budget.
• Integration Services - IHS solutions integrate with a variety of other key business systems including: Asset Management (e.g. Maximo, Oracle, SAP), Document Management (e.g. Documentum, Adobe LiveLink, Sharepoint, Hummingbird), ERP (e.g. SAP, Oracle), Process Historians (e.g. Pi, LIMS, IP21), and can help you configure your solution for enterprise user authentication systems such as SSO and LDAP.

To learn more about IHS Software Implementation Services for EHS&S, email us or request information.

EHS&S information systems from IHS are available for delivery on-premise, hosted or subscription – so you can select the approach that fits your organization’s IT strategy. Our world-class hosting services provide the IT knowledge and ability to execute that you need to ensure fast, reliable access to vital EHS&S management tools. This enables you to focus on meeting ESM performance objectives and overall business goals, instead of worrying about technology infrastructure.

IHS Hosting Services for EHS&S help you:

• Lower total cost of ownership by reducing the need for your staff to troubleshoot compatibility issues, maintain the latest versions and patches and provide in-house support.
• Reduce your initial investment by eliminating the need for costly hardware purchases.
• Get up and running quickly without the resource and sourcing headaches that often accompany an enterprise software purchase.
• Maintain the security of your data with a SSAE 16 Type II-compliant, fully encrypted environment that is dedicated to each customer.  
• Ensure high availability with a proven provider who historically achieves annual uptime of 99.95%.
• Lower your tax burden by recognizing costs as operational expenses rather than capital expenditures.
• Eliminate IT support and let IHS handle both your hardware maintenance and software troubleshooting.
• Ensure availability with local sites around the world to ensure fast processing.
• Choose to get automatic software upgrades, which ensures that your team always has access to the latest features and functionality.
• Guarantee hardware compatibility by eliminating the need for lengthy and cumbersome compatibility checks with your in-house hardware.

To learn more about IHS Hosting Services for EHS&S, email us or request information.

IHS brings together our EHS&S software and expertise with your team’s knowledge of your company’s business processes. We provide the capabilities that are required to perform risk assessments, author safety data sheets (SDSs), manage supplier data and evaluate global hazards.  We know that outsourcing critical functions is a big step for your organization so it is essential that you select a provider with a proven ability to deliver, a team you know you can trust – IHS.

IHS Business Process Services for EHS&S include:

Risk Management Services: Our subject matter experts have the proven experience required to dig into your operations and challenge your staff to evaluate risks and controls with a critical eye.  We help you ensure that your studies are more rigorous, more probing and more focused, making certain that controls are well defined and properly mitigate risk. We also provide you with guidance post-study, ensuring that you prioritize mitigation activities and track them to completion.  The projects and methods we are most frequently asked to conduct are:

SDS Authoring: IHS creates, analyzes and manages top-quality, globally-compliant Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) and product labels. In addition, we support the creation of REACH Chemical Safety Reports on behalf of companies like yours around the world. In the past 20 years, we have developed a network of experts who are unsurpassed for their understanding of local and global legislative requirements. Our team has produced thousands of compliance documents for regional and multi-national firms alike. We have deep expertise in promoting and protecting product brands as well as a proven track record of producing SDSs and labels that meet the compliance obligations of large and small chemical manufacturers, suppliers and exporters.

Supplier Data Management: Our global team of regulatory experts and data analysts will collect needed raw material data from your suppliers. The information is then loaded into your EHS&S system to: define data requirements needed from suppliers (product safety, worker protection, environmental protection, detailed material composition etc.); define internal processes needed to support raw material management (purchasing, R&D, chemical approval workflow etc.); establish and maintain contact information for raw material suppliers; obtain SDS for supplier raw materials; archive supplier SDSs with searchable index using our system or yours; and obtain additional documents, technical SDS, certificate of analysis etc.

Global Hazard Evaluation: Properly analyzing the substance data of products is critical in producing accurate, reliable safety documents that properly represent your products in the marketplace. The IHS team‘s outstanding experience in performing regulatory analysis of substances and raw materials enables us to create accurate product assessments. We optimize the hazard evaluation process, using IHS software to maximize efficiency and maintain quality. We also ensure that necessary documentation and audit trails are built into the process to support hazard evaluation results. Whether it is GHS classification toxicity, environmental hazards, regulatory applicability, occupational exposure limit classification or consumer regulations and labeling requirements, our experts can help you.

To learn more about IHS Business Process Services for EHS&S, email us or request information.