Environmental Compliance

Organisations worldwide are struggling to comply with a proliferating patchwork of government environmental regulations, voluntary reporting protocols, industry standards and corporate initiatives. At the same time, increasing compliance obligations also require a level of accuracy, comparability and traceability that is similar to standards for financial reporting.

The IHS Environmental Performance Solution gives you the ability to manage all of these critical issues:

• Air Emissions: Tracks, analyses and reports any pollutant air emission. IHS also helps organisations manage fugitive emissions and refrigerant compliance requirements.
• Hazardous Waste Management: Follows waste container movements from generation to final disposal. Creates waste profiles and transporters; establishes approved treatment, storage and disposal facilities; and generates hazardous waste manifests in all regulatory formats.
• Water Usage and Discharge: Supports improved resource utilisation and cost-control strategies by providing information for surface water discharge, groundwater remediation projects, drinking water sampling or treatment effectiveness and reporting needs.
• Chemical Inventory: Reports toxic substances emitted to air, water and waste in accordance with mandated threshold analyses.
• Auditing: Captures and manages operational data in order to assure compliance with government regulations, global protocols, industry standards and corporate policies.
• Permits & Regulatory Applicability: Streamlines and delivers content to enable efficient processing of application and management of environmental permits.
• Performance Metrics: Analyses, benchmarks and rolls up environmental performance indicators for monitoring and managing of site level, intermediate or overall corporate goals.
• Task Management: Automates environmental compliance tasking with built-in change management that is comprehensive, assured, verifiable and sustained.
• Process Data Management: Provides out-of-the-box, rapid implementation connectivity with field devices and data historians to establish and maintain end-to-end environmental data source access and integrity.

IHS Environmental Performance Solution can help you minimise operational disruption due to changing environmental regulations and maximise the opportunity to gain a competitive advantage.

To achieve environmental performance and enterprise sustainability goals, global organisations must be certain that their data is consistent, accurate and transparent. Efficiently collecting and calculating large volumes of asset-based data from multiple sources and communicating progress against regulatory, industry or corporate goals have become critical to success.

The IHS Environmental Performance Solution is unique in its ability to help your organisation:

• Support effective compliance management with ongoing monitoring against calculated regulatory limits, advanced notification and real-time alerts of potential violations and automatic triggering of action plans to prevent or mitigate environmental incidents.
• Analyse environmental impacts in relationship to production from the individual asset level to enterprise-wide.
• Manage compliance enterprise-wide at a granular level through global process data acquisition, validation, qualification, certification from any field device, external process historian or operational database.
• Provide an information management structure that is configurable to any business process or reporting requirement to ensure that it will fit your organisation’s strategy.
• Deliver strong data audit and locking capabilities as part of end-to-end support for independent audit and verification, so your environmental performance will stand up to any level of scrutiny.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) as benchmarks for process improvements and forecasting environmental results against production plans and schedules.
• Ensure continuity and reliability of environmental knowledge by capturing both current and historical information and processes within a consolidated system.
• Collect and aggregate current and historical information and processes so your organisation’s environmental records can withstand any audit.

To learn more about how IHS environmental management software, content and expertise can help your organisation, email us or request information.

For decades, our team of experts has provided EHS and Sustainability software, content and expertise to thousands of industry leaders around the world. They choose IHS because our proven ability to execute on broad, deep enterprise-level solutions gives them confidence that their Enterprise Sustainability Management business strategies will be a success.

Here is a selection of customers from various industries that have used IHS solutions to get outstanding results:

Global paint manufacturer

• Replaced hundreds of stand-alone systems with centralised solution in support of initiative that reduced water consumption by 54% and energy consumption more than 17% over 10 years
• Senior managers can view best practices and EHS performance data across plants for comparison and improvement.

National petroleum company

• Championing industry best practices in EHS and sustainability by supporting certification with international industry standards including ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18000
• Streamlined key workflows, such as reducing the average time required to generate a monthly air emission inventory report from eight hours to two to three minutes

Leading pipeline transportation and energy storage provider

• Reduced risk of non-compliance due to personnel changes and drove operational excellence
• Solution provided ability to report across the enterprise, so decision-makers can see the big picture, as well as granular views when needed.

Global steel manufacturer

• Tracks emissions at eight integrated steel production sites in compliance with EU Emission Trading Scheme requirements
• Solution produces data at more than 140 facilities in eight countries, with flexibility to meet information requirements of a variety of users

Read about results achieved by dozens of award-winning organisations at IHS SPECTRUM Excellence Awards.

Read educational white papers and research reports from IHS thought leaders and independent industry analysts on a variety of environmental performance and other EHS&S topics.

Brochures

• EHS & Sustainability Software Solutions for Your Business and Your World
  What if you could make sustainability an integral part of your business operations?  Download this brochure to learn more about IHS, the source of EHS & Sustainability software for Enterprise Sustainability Management.
• IHS Environmental Performance Solution™
  What if you could reach beyond regulations to enable proactive decisions that enhance efficiency and competitiveness?  Download this brochure to learn more how IHS can help your organization meet its business goals through Environmental Performance solutions.

Podcast:

• Process Efficiency: Leveraging Compliance Infrastructure to Optimize Assets and Costs
  This podcast details how industry-leading companies can transform environmental compliance data into an engine that can generate a broad array of operational benefits.

Research Reports:

• Environment, Health and Safety: Going Beyond Compliance 2012 – Aberdeen Group
  The need to ensure compliance with Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) regulations and concern over the risk of an adverse event is driving an increasing number of manufacturers to reevaluate their EH&S program.

Webinars:

• Going Beyond Compliance: Best-in-Class Environmental Performance
  IHS, The Dow Chemical Company and Aberdeen Group discuss best practices in EHS and sustainability management and provide critical insight from companies who have put these best practices into action.
• Going Beyond Compliance – Best Practice Strategies for Carbon Accounting and Reporting
  IHS, PSEG, Groom Energy and IHS discuss the latest compliance and sustainability challenges and opportunities while sharing insight on how leading companies are addressing the arduous task of consolidating emissions data and reporting to meet regulatory and voluntary requirements in a multitude of formats and systems.

Whitepapers:

• The Corporate Executives Guide to Global Climate Change
  Read this complimentary paper to learn why a robust enterprise information management strategy is critical to support your organization’s overall GHG management plan.
• Refrigerant Management for the 21st Century
  Refrigerant management is re-emerging as a pivotal issue for organizations because of the greenhouse gas emissions regulatory landscape and its effect on market access and costs.