SAP Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)
Make the Health and Safety of your Enterprise and Employees Top Priority
What is SAP EHS?
SAP EHS is a software that was developed to effectively manage occupational health, industrial hygiene, and the overall safety of employees, products, and the organization. It enables the integration of safety and health tasks in the enterprise’s existing business processes. The software enables organizations to be legally compliant, decrease costs, and lower risks at the same time. It provides a comprehensive solution for the management of the environment, health, and safety of the overall organization.
SAP EHS includes the following components
Hazardous substance management:
Includes all of the activities that need to be carried out in order to deal safely with and track dangerous goods
Dangerous goods management:
Involves the processes that need to be carried out in order to effectively deal with the storage, management, transportation, and delivery of dangerous goods
Product safety management:
includes effectively managing the manufacturing and procurement of hazardous products
Waste management:
Includes creation of a central process, wherein all of the activities that you need to engage in order to effectively manage the waste disposal process are carried out
Occupational health management:
Includes periodically analyzing, tracking, and conducting health surveillance checks in your organization in order to determine patterns and trends in the overall health of the enterprise and to take the necessary steps to rectify and address those health concerns.
Industrial hygiene and safety:
Includes prioritizing the hygiene and safety of your organization and effectively managing hazards
Basic data and reporting:
Includes all of the functions that you need in order to run the other EHS functions smoothly. This includes creation of a single central point for all EHS components.
Benefits
Effectively comply with complex legal health and safety regulations globally, while reducing costs
Ability to continually assess risks and process improvement needs by monitoring the health and safety of your enterprise’s operations
Avert adverse occurrences by having the right operational controls
Track accidents and near-misses more effectively which allows for complex investigation and learnings from safety issues
Ability to develop occupational health and industrial hygiene programs
Ease of application to all industries on a global scale
