EHS & Sustainability Resource Center

The best measure of a product's strength is its customer list. IHS has a healthy list of long-term, satisfied customers. Thousands of organizations have purchased IHS EHS and Sustainability software solutions including over half of the Fortune 500. Our clients are large and small, public and private, representing a variety of industries worldwide. Our customer satisfaction ratings are the highest in the industry and our unmatched client base and proven performance provide you with the confidence that we deliver the results you need.

Customer Success Stories (all in pdf format):

Aerospace & Defense

• Aerospace Company Saves Time, Improves Compliance Assurance with OpsEnvironmental™
• Aerojet Builds On Tradition of EH&S Performance and Supports Innovation in Mobile Waste Data Collection

Airlines

• American Airlines Streamlines Compliance Management with OpsEnvironmental™
• Qantas Airlines Streamlines Information Reduces Costs With Comply Plus®

Chemical

• Arkema Finds Big Value In OpsEnvironmental™
• DAK Americas 2006 Excellence Award
• Dow Chemical Company 2008 Excellence Award
• Idaho National Lab Cleanup Project Improves MSDS and Chemical Inventory Management
• Shell Chemicals Streamlines Environmental Management with OpsEnvironmental™

Construction

• Burns & McDonnell Engineers Access Standards In Field

Consulting

• Plant Services Inc. 2006 Excellence Award

Education

• Idaho State University 2006 Excellence Award
• Northern Illinois University 2006 Excellence Award

Food

• Campbell's Soup 2008 Excellence Award

Government/Military

• Arizona's Gilbert Fire Department 2008 Excellence Award
• Beale Air Force Base 2008 Excellence Award
• Boynton Beach 2006 Excellence Award
• Brookhaven National Lab 2008 Excellence Award
• Maryland State Highway Administration 2008 Excellence Award
• Nebraska Emergency Management Agency 2009 Excellence Award
• New Brunswick Emergency Communications Network 2009 Excellence Award
• Puyallup Fire & Rescue Dept. 2006 Excellence Award
• Sumner County Risk Management 2008 Excellence Award
• Tempe Fire Department 2008 Excellence Award
• U.S. Forest Service 2008 Excellence Award
• U.S. Postal Inspection Service 2009 Excellence Award

Manufacturing

• Alcoa 2006 Excellence Award
• Alcoa 2008 Excellence Award
• Alcoa 2009 Excellence Award
• ArcelorMittal Drives Global Environmental Performance with OpsEnvironmental™
• Cardinal Glass 2008 Excellence Award
• Ford Motor Company 2009 Excellence Award
• General Motors Uses OpsEnvironmental™ To Fuel Environmental Compliance Engine
• Hunter Douglas 2006 Excellence Award
• Koppers Inc. 2008 Excellence Award
• Linc Facility Services 2006 Excellence Award
• Reynolds Packaging 2009 Excellence Award
• Schneider Electric Leads The Way
• Volvo Trucks North America 2006 Excellence Award

Oil/Gas

• Cheniere Energy 2009 Excellence Award
• China National Petroleum Corporation 2008 Excellence Award
• Halliburton 2006 Excellence Award
• Kuwait Oil Co. 2009 Excellence Award
• New Jersey Natural Gas 2006 Excellence Award
• SandRidge Energy 2009 Excellence Award
• Spectra Energy GHG 2009 Excellence Award
• Spectra Energy Incident Learning & Prevention 2009 Excellence Award
• Sunoco 2006 Excellence Award

Utilities

• Ameren Corporation Accesses Up To Date Standards On Desktop
• DTE Energy Moves Beyond Compliance with IHS Environmental Solutions
• Duke Energy 2008 Excellence Award
• Eastern Municipal Water District 2006 Excellence Award
• New York Power Authority 2006 Excellence Award

Wholesale/Retail

• United Stationers 2006 Excellence Award

Read the Best of the Best in our educational research reports from thought leaders and experts on environmental, health & safety (EHS) and sustainability topics.

Aberdeen Report - Environment, Health & Safety: Managing Risk and Compliance in Manufacturing Operations
Companies are looking for ways to reduce the cost of compliance, improve the safety of people, product, and processes while at the same time surpass corporate goals around brand equity and share holder value. This is further complicated by the pressure of holistically managing carbon emissions and energy; the key focus of organizations' sustainability strategies. This research will provide actionable intelligence, based on the practices adopted by 132 executives, to effectively manage all of the above challenges.

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Read the Best of the Best in our educational white papers from thought leaders and experts on EH&S, product stewardship and compliance and sustainability topics.

Agile Compliance Management Systems for Environmental, Health & Safety
This white paper describes how two leading commercial EH&S software solutions align with key characteristics of an "agile" Compliance Management System: modular, iterative, economical, adaptive, people-oriented, collaborative and complementary.

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Complimentary Web Seminars: There's always room for you!

Hear the Best of the Best of our upcoming and archived leadership sessions. We bring you online seminars with thought leaders and experts on environmental, health and safety and sustainability topics. All you need to participate is a PC with speakers and an Internet connection. Sit back and click through to any of our great educational sessions.

GHS Around the World - Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Global Companies
IHS and Chemical Watch invite you to join experts from the U.N 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 U.S. adoption and share best practices and lessons learned from those that have already faced compliance requirements from GHS adoption in other countries. View webcast.

Beyond Safety - Best Practices for Operational Risk Management
How to measure and drive your safety culture for continuous improvement and risk mitigation
Join IHS, ExxonMobil and Aberdeen as we highlight how leading organizations are addressing the need to mitigate risks and reduce cost by driving continuous operational risk management improvement to reach their operational excellence goals.
View Webcast for this complimentary webinar!

Unfolding the Smart Grid Roadmap
From policies and politics to standards and regulations, how experts see the Smart Grid evolving
Smart Grid is potentially one of the most disruptive technologies to impact the global power industry. This vast network of power lines, advanced meters, sensing, communication, and control technologies, linked through universal standards and protocols, poses both anticipated and unforeseen opportunities and challenges. There is no shortage of articles and publications devoted to this subject – but hidden within this glut of information is an alarming amount misinformation and misperception.

Best-in-Class Incident Management Strategies for Corporate Sustainability
As many recent adverse industry events have shown, Incident Management is an important but often overlooked piece of a global organization's operational playbook.  Join experts from Aberdeen and IHS on this live webcast as they take a look at corporate incident management as a business and sustainability issue and provide strategies for building an effective incident management program.

Emerging Compliance Issues for Chemical Manufacturers - The Impact of REACH & GHS on Your Supply Chain/Manufacturing Processes
Compliance means many different things, but for chemical companies, it usually refers to operational requirements that stem from regulations like REACH and GHS. Join experts Mark Blainey from IHS and Gil Garcia from Edgewater Fullscope for this live webcast as they discuss the new compliance requirements that US chemical companies must prepare for across their supply chain.

Sustainable Water Management for the 21st Century
Join IHS, Environmental Leader, Suncor and the Carbon Disclosure Project on this on-demand webcast as they take a look at corporate water management and reporting as a business and sustainability issue and provide strategies for addressing it.

Chemical Management 2.0: The Critical Need for EHS Compliance & Knowledge in the Sustainability Generation.
Join IHS and Environmental Leader as they discuss the risks and opportunities surrounding regulations and chemical management. Learn how to achieve compliance and operational excellence, while supporting stewardship and sustainability objectives.

Best-in-Class Strategies for EHS Compliance and Sustainability
Join experts from Aberdeen and IHS as they share new benchmarking research on managing EHS risk and compliance and discuss the opportunities EHS compliance initiatives can present for performance improvement, operational excellence and improved corporate sustainability

Sustainability and Carbon Emissions: Immediate, Real and Monetized Risks
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring IHS and AMR Research. 

Linking Supply Chains to Innovation and Operational Excellence
Hosted by SDCExec and IHS, and featuring AMR Research.
Join AMR Research, IHS, and Supply & Demand Chain Executive as they share and discuss recent research on global product development, innovation, and supply chain risk. The webcast will feature comprehensive discussion in Global Product Development (GPD).

Avoiding the Supply Chain Discontinuity Risks of REACH
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring IHS and AMR Research.
Is REACH (the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemicals) your next Supply Chain Discontinuity Risk? If you are not paying attention, it just might be. 

The Business Case for Carbon Management
Hosted by GreenBiz, featuring Verdantix and Joel Makower of Greener World Media. 

MRO Inventory Optimization
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring IHS and Xtivity.
Learn how to free cash flow and decrease inventory investment, and decrease operating costs, without jeopardizing production capacity.

Through-Life Sustainment for Customer Excellence
How BAE Systems Delivers Competitive Advantage, Total Performance and Sustainment of Products
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring IHS BAE Systems.
Defense spending has shifted focus to the development of military platforms with capabilities that ensure operational requirements are delivered, supported, and maintained in a cost-effective manner. Contracts will be awarded to those who can demonstrate performance and availability with superior design and through-life sustainability and cost-containment.
ease inventory investment, and decrease operating costs, without jeopardizing production capacity.

Supply Chain Sustainability 
Enabling carbon accounting, emissions reporting, and regulatory compliance throughout the supply chain
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring IHS CSA Standards.
Your supply chain is in the corporate sustainability cross-hairs. Customers, the Board, and shareholders are taking aim. New jargon, a wave of regulations, and tough questions are swirling the supply chain. Your supply chain's approach to carbon accounting, GHG emissions reporting, and regulatory compliance is in question. 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Is Your Organization at Risk?
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring CSA Standards and IHS.
Join  CSA Standards and IHS for a frank and informative discussion on the scope, opportunities and risks associated with Greenhouse Gas emissions measuring and reporting. Don't miss this opportunity to improve your company's carbon performance, reduce risk and ensure compliance. 

The 2010 ASME Boiler Code
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring ASME, TSSA, and IHS.
Nearly a century ago, the "Boiler Code" from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was developed to establish standard rules for the construction of steam boilers and other pressure vessels. Born to promote safety through pressure integrity, it also furnished standards that any state could use for boilers installed within its borders. Today, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) is used in over 100 countries, and is adopted (in whole or in part) by all 50 states and numerous municipalities and territories of the United States, and all of the provinces of Canada.

Standards Management in Today's Global Supply Chain: Once Important, Now Critical
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring IHS.
Companies rely on thousands of standards to design and manufacture products, ensure quality, minimize environmental impact, improve worker safety, and communicate with supply chain partners. Learn how to develop a standards management strategy to avoid disruption in your global supply chain. 

Redesigning the Medical Supply Chain Webcast
Hosted by SDCExec, featuring IHS.
How to comply with environmental regulations, eliminate   toxic materials, and maintain product reliability, while avoiding supply  disruption and eroding profit. 

Compliance Conundrum: Schneider Electric Talks REACH
Sponsored by SDCExec, featuring IHS and Schneider Electric.
Whether you realize it or not, your supply chain is changing. EU REACH regulation concerns the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemicals. It's not just a compliance issue. REACH poses serious potential threat to the unprepared when chemical transitions ripple throughout industries. "No data, No market." is the industry mantra, yet adequate data is not available as the supply chain prepares itself and requirements are designed to evolve.