5.19.2010
As a living system, a company’s risk profile is continually shifting. The growing attention on sustainability and corporate responsibility (CSR) has stretched companies as they wrestle with ways to characterize and manage their sustainability and CSR risks.
Integrated EHS, sustainability, and CSR management systems provide a robust structure to manage risks. A key concept in an integrated management system is “the management of change” (MOC), which focuses on identifying and managing risks as operations or the operating environment change. MOC procedures and process typically kick-in when new equipment or manufacturing lines are installed, during mergers & acquisitions, or during internal re-organizations. On the corporate responsibility front, forward-thinking companies include the monitoring of third-party monitoring criteria in their MOC process.
Strong MOC processes are part of a company’s front line defense for risk reduction. The MOC process should pick up most risks that arise in between formal risk assessments. Read More
Posted By Charles Redinger | in Corporate Social Responsibility, Emerging Issues, Innovation, Management Systems, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking & Planning, Sustainability | Tags: ANSI/AIHA Z10, Causal Loop Diagram, CSR, EHS Management System, Integrated EHSMS, ISO 14001, Management of Change, MOC, OHSAS 18001, Organizational Learning | No Comments »
4.1.2010
This is the second of several blog posts on the EHS Integration model we’ve developed at Redinger EHS, Inc. Please contact us if you’d like PDF of our white paper on this topic.
EHS Functions are often described in terms of levels of maturity. These can also be called stages of development, levels of development, and so on. It’s common to describe these levels or stages with numerical ranks, such as from 1 to 3 or 5, where level or stage 1 represents lowest level of maturity or development and the highest level represents a high degree of maturity.
The EHS Integration model presented here also presents a continuum of EHS Function maturity. This continuum is called “an EHS Integration Continuum,” with seven levels. Read More
Posted By Charles Redinger | in Emerging Issues, Innovation, Management Systems, Strategic Thinking & Planning | Tags: Beyond EHS Compliance, EHS Barriers, EHS Compliance, EHS Integration, EHS Mind-set, EHS Regulations, Implementation Dimension, Integration Dimension | No Comments »
3.25.2010
I have worked with several EHS departments to increase their performance and cohesiveness. In partnership, we’ve addressed performance beyond simply meeting regulatory compliance, rather looking at ways they could integrate EHS deeper into the organization and impact sustainability and CSR. A starting place in all of these engagements has been to get the EHS management system up-to-snuff and firing on all cylinders. Beyond the EHSMS, we then focused on:
- Team vision. Developing a strong vision based in the team’s collective wisdom.
- Communication skills. Strengthening internal and external communication and generating alignment.
- Team learning. Developing mechanisms for feedback, analysis and integration.
- Systems thinking. Strengthened skills in systems ID and mapping.
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Posted By Charles Redinger | in Emerging Issues, High Performance Teams, Management Systems, Personal Mastery, Strategic Thinking & Planning | Tags: Collective Wisdom, CSR, EHS, High Performance Teams, Sustainability, Systems Thinking, Team Vision | No Comments »
2.5.2010
Over the past several years I have been working on an EHS organizational management model and methodology that provides organizations with a way to bring innovation and fresh thinking to its Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) function. Some of these ideas have been presented in Newsletters and White Papers. These writings have included ways to integrate the EHS function within itself as well as within the organization.
Central to this work has been ways to elevate EHS thinking as a driver in business strategy for competitive advantage, take EHS performance to zero or near zero, and empower EHS professionals as leaders in their organizations. I was very excited when I first learned of and read Green to Gold as it reinforced and validated much of this work. Read More
Posted By Charles Redinger | in Emerging Issues, Innovation, Management Systems, Quantum EHS | Tags: Green to Gold, Quantum EHS | No Comments »
