Promote industrial hygiene and safety............................................
Every one of your company’s processes needs to consider the well-being of
your employees, vendors, contractors, and visitors. Included in these consid-
erations are your standard operating procedures, work areas, employee
training, benefits, incident/accident logs, exposure profiles, and compliance
reporting. For a complete discussion of the subject, please see Chapter 10.
Ensure product safety........................................................................
This uber-critical facet of your business lives at the core of Chapter 12. For
now, suffice it to say that an appropriate product safety agenda can enable
your company to control specification management, automate product com-
position calculations, initiate rule-based material safety data sheet (MSDS)
authoring, automatically generate and ship MSDSs, receive support for global
hazardous substance management GHS and REACH compliance, implement
global label management, and deploy interfaces for data exchange with con-
tent providers.
Taking the SAP Approach to Making
Your Processes Environmentally Friendly
To ensure both thorough compliance and progress toward environmental
goals, you need a unified, enterprise-wide framework to correlate and align
all current and forthcoming GRC initiatives. Without this single system of
record, it’s not likely your organization will be able to achieve a comprehen-
sive view of your GRC activities. In turn, the chance that you will be able to
assume a risk-based approach that satisfies multiple, interrelated company
initiatives and regulatory mandates is equally doubtful.
Initiating a successful, unified GRC strategy entails two fronts. First, you need
to implement a company-wide design for your environmental health and
safety processes. Second, you must holistically integrate all of your systems
to create a standard technology platform that provides collaboration
and communication capabilities and allows you to adapt to new or forth-
coming compliance regulations.
By implementing a central data repository that is reusable, transparent, and
flexible — effectually embedding GRC strategies into the core of all your busi-
ness methodologies — your company will minimize duplicated efforts, opti-
mize effectiveness, and enhance simplicity over the long run. Along the way,
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