Health & Safety Compliance

Injuries and incidents can impair your organisation’s productivity while driving up operational costs and risks. IHS can help you record the results of your industrial hygiene surveys, sampling processes and resulting information to be certain your employees are not impacted by potential dangers. The IHS Health & Safety Solution empowers you to take control and to promote a culture of safety.

The IHS Health & Safety Solution addresses a variety of critical challenges including:

• Incident Management: Prevents incidents by tracking, recording and evaluating employee injuries, illnesses and near misses.
• Job Hazard Analysis: Ensures worker safety by fully analysing job hazards and communicating preventative measures.
• Auditing: Maintains a verifiable trail and detailed history reports that identify workplace hazards by recording audits, citations and corrective actions.
• Task Management: Shows what needs to be done, makes assignments and tracks tasks to completion to avoid failures and retain feedback for next steps.
• Industrial Hygiene: Safeguards the health and safety of your workforce by accurately assessing and eliminating worker risk and exposure.
• Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Management: Automates authoring of Safety Data Sheets (SDS) in a multitude of languages and formats.
• Chemical Management: Tracks chemicals throughout the product lifecycle in order to identify opportunities to reduce costs and optimise processes, while remaining in compliance with various regulations.
• Training Management: Never miss a training date again by organising and managing your entire employee training calendar in one location.
• Liability Claims and Case Management: Prevents costly errors and lost information by tracking all claim details in a single system.

To learn more about how IHS can help your organisation manage critical health and safety challenges, email us or request information.

People are the most valuable asset of any organisation. In order keep them safe and productive, you need to comply with a variety of complex safety regulations, standards and policies. IHS helps you capture data about incidents, near misses or workplace hazards throughout your facilities and communicate that information to a variety of internal and external stakeholders in order to protect your workforce, operations and community.

The IHS Health & Safety Solution enables you to:

• Analyse data to reveal trends statistics, and costs to help drive your company’s performance
• Track root cause analyses as well as manage corrective actions in order to prevent future incidents
• See what needs to be done, make assignments and track tasks to completion to avoid failures and retain feedback for next steps
• Maintain a verifiable trail that identifies workplace hazards by recording audits, citations and corrective actions as well as creating detailed history reports
• Assign training requirements by job title, department and facility for automatic scheduling, conflict-checking and wait-listing
• Monitor and evaluate total training costs by employee, course and instructor
• Record and track sampling processes, and the resulting information, to be certain your employees are protected from exposures
• Associate personal protective equipment (PPE) to tasks to help prepare written PPE programmes and pinpoint root causes associated with PPE
• Track environmental, general liability, third-party, personal injury, property damage and vehicle liability claims

To learn more about how IHS can help your organisation manage critical health and safety challenges, 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 Manufacturing Company

• Cut workers compensation costs in half one year after system deployment
• Reduced employee injuries by 50%
• Boosted productivity by reducing employee lost days more than 80%

National Manufacturing Company

• Reduced injuries by 64% and lowered workers compensation costs by 59%
• Eliminated duplicate manual data entry to save an estimated 600 labour hours a year, while providing trending and customised reports that supported gap analyses of the company’s safety programme

National Government Agency

• Tracked motor vehicle incidents for 113,000 employees (past and present) and more than 3,400 vehicles
• Reduced reporting time by 50% – from 1 to 1 ½ hours per standard form down to an average of 30 minutes

State Government Agency

• Contributed to programme that reduced injuries by 29%, lost work days by 65%, incident rate by 29% and severity rate by 63%

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

Read and listen to resources from both IHS thought leaders and independent industry analysts on a variety of Health & Safety 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 Health & Safety Solution™ 
  What if you could streamline regulatory reporting while improving employee and workplace safety performance?  Download this brochure to learn more how IHS can help your organization meet its business goals through Health & Safety solutions.

Research Reports

• Environment, Health and Safety: Going Beyond Compliance – Aberdeen Group
  Aberdeen Group will be providing a roadmap to an effective EH&S initiative within an organization and supporting technology solutions that can help organizations get on track towards not only being in compliance, but to go beyond that.
• Operational Risk Management Benchmark Report – Aberdeen Group
  This new research report will provide actionable intelligence, based on the practices adopted by 112 executives to effectively manage and mitigate operational risks within their operations.

Webinars

• Beyond Safety: Best Practices for Operational Risk Management
  This webcast will be of value to people in risk and safety management, EHS compliance and corporate sustainability roles who are looking for information about best practices for operational risk management.
• GHS Around the World - Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Global Companies
  IHS and Chemical Watch invite you to join experts from the UN Sub-Committee on GHS, PPG and IHS as they take an in-depth look at GHS adoption around the world. Hear first hand as they compare and contrast the various GHS implementations around the globe, discuss the US adoption and share best practices and lessons learned from those that have already faced compliance requirements from GHS adoption in other countries.
• REACH & CLP Tips for Downstream Users
  IHS and Chemical Watch invite you to join experts from Unilever, Alliance Boots and IHS as they examine the challenges facing Downstream Users and explain what to do if suppliers are not compliant or if they are not providing the requirement information.