IHS Environmental Performance Solution

Organizations worldwide are struggling to comply with a proliferating patchwork of government environmental regulations, voluntary reporting protocols such as CDP and GRI, industry standards and corporate sustainability initiatives. At the same time, increasing compliance obligations and stakeholder reporting requirements are demanding a level of accuracy, comparability and traceability that is similar to standards for financial reporting. Investors are using these reports and the related non-financial metrics to make important investment decisions.

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

• Air Emissions: Delivers extensive and functionally rich capabilities to track, analyze and report any pollutant air emission. This enables the monitoring, optimization, and reporting of GHG and carbon footprint from the asset level up through the enterprise. IHS also helps organizations manage fugitive emissions and refrigerant compliance requirements.
• Hazardous Waste Management: Automates and streamlines the tracking of waste from generation to final disposal. This enables you to efficiently meet increased regulatory demands and transparently report your waste management operations.
• Water Usage and Discharge: Supports improved resource utilization and compliance requirements by gathering, storing, and organizing the data necessary in water management programs. This enables you to benchmark results to drive continuous improvement and report against compliance obligations.
• Chemical Inventory: Simplifies data collection and aggregation of chemical inventory to enable efficient accounting for hazardous materials in accordance with regulations and supports critical chemical inventory reporting requirements.
• Auditing: Manages internal and external audits to minimize disruptions on operations. This provides a central system of record for all environmental management requirements in support of compliance obligations, corporate policies, and certifications.
• Environmental Permits Management & Regulatory Applicability: Streamlines content and delivers a flexible framework to efficiently process permit applications as well as effectively monitor and manage compliance for regulatory requirements and environmental permits in any jurisdiction.
• Performance Metrics & Reporting: Provides an asset based- platform to analyze, benchmark and roll up environmental performance indicators and key operational metrics. This enables effective monitoring, managing and reporting  of asset, site level, or enterprise data to support Operational Excellence goals.
• Compliance & Task Management: Ensures end-to-end environmental compliance and maintains your license to operate by automating tasks, procedures and documentation across facilities, teams and operations. It provides a platform to understand and effectively manage compliance costs as well as reduce risks.
• Process Data Management: Facilitates the acquisition and validation of asset-level data from process automation systems and meters. This drives efficiencies and provides a key mechanism to manage and consolidate asset data to support optimization goals and EHS compliance objectives.
• Regulatory Content: Provides access to published and monitored online regulatory text for the US, Canada and Mexico and integrates workflows to facilitate the assignment and tracking of tasks at the operational level in order to drive end-to-end compliance.

In addition IHS provides the industry’s most comprehensive EHS managed regulatory content to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations around the world. Our experts maintain and monitor in-depth information about regulations such as the US Clean Air and Water Act, the European Pollutant Emission Register and Australia’s National Pollutant Inventory.

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

To achieve environmental performance and enterprise sustainability goals, global organizations 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 organization:

• 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.
• Analyze 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 organization’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 organization’s environmental records can withstand any audit.

To learn more about how IHS environmental management software, content and expertise can help your organization, 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 centralized 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 organizations at IHS SPECTRUM Excellence Awards.