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Organizations around the world are facing challenges with increasing regulations focusing on Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) issues. Managing these rules and regulations are very resource intensive activity with greater risk of penalties and fines for non compliance. Organizations have to spend significant amount of valuable resources in tracking these regulations carefully. A global organization has to be more vigilant with changing international regulations which can impact the business agility and continuity. Multiple departments within an organization such production, processing, packaging are involved in the supply chain of the product delivery to the customers which can create EH&S compliance issues at multiple levels. Risk of occupational health and safety for employees is a big concern and companies need to address them specifically in highly regulated industries such as chemical, oil and natural gas refining, FDA regulated pharmaceutical industries and many more.

Effective management of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) issues entails the inclusion of EHS considerations into corporate and facility-level business processes in an organized, hierarchical approach that includes:

• Identification of EHS hazards and associated risks as early as possible based on the activities such as quantities of emissions and hazardous materials involvement etc.
• Potential consequence of occupational hazard to employees, community and environment

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EHS systems need to comply with the OSHA 29 CFR regulations and support the OHSAS 18001 framework, while providing enterprise-wide visibility into incidents and trends, corrective actions and process metrics. Organizations will have to track hazardous materials through Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for ensuring regulatory compliance for addressing chemical and biological hazards.

MetricStream's environmental health and safety software solution enables organizations to effectively comply with regulatory mandates around EH & S by :

• Allowing organizations to define EH&S policy, Objectives and Targets using Document Management System and operational controls using Compliance Management
• Help in Identifying EH&S hazards, risk, impact and legal obligation using Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance Management
• Create Material Safety Data Sheets and information to handle hazardous material
• Supporting EH&S awareness programs like training and best practices through Training and DMS
• Allow to track and resolve EH&S related issues using EH&S Issue Tracking, CAPA and Change Control
• Help in measuring and monitoring EH&S performance using Audits, Inspections, Surveys, Equipment and Calibration
• Finally help management to take EH&S related decision with analytical data in terms of Reports and Dashboards.