EHS Integration

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), when integral to an organization’s strategy can:

• Increase productivity – positively impact the bottom line
• Reduce institutional risk
• Define organizational values
• Frame and lead Corporate Social Responsibility efforts

The conundrum:

• EHS functions are viewed as cost centers in most organizations.  EHS professionals operate within command-and-control structures that foster separation.
• Even with technological advances, EHS costs continue to impact organizations.  In occupational health and safety, OSHA reports annual direct and indirect costs of $170 billion annual in the United States alone.
• At the individual and EHS departmental level, there is a sense of overwhelm and limited ability to impact these issues beyond the status-quo. 

The Solution – EHS Integration - Going Beyond Compliance

The solution is to fully integrate EHS functions and values into the organizational fabric.  To do this, three things are necessary: 

• A new orientation to EHS.
   
• Strengthened capacities of EHS professionals as individuals and their departments as a collective. 
   
• An integrated management system and metrics approach that is anchored in a collective vision.  This integrated approach simplifies existing complexity and is acceptable at all levels of the organization.

Redinger & Associates have developed an approach to take organizations to the highest levels of EHS performance.  Central to this is moving into the Integration Dimension where EHS activities are driven by vision and commitment, and actions are generative.

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