The Other Second Wave: Are You Prepared for Enhanced Enforcement of Your Respiratory Protection Program?
In this post, health and safety expert Sean Baldry, CRSP, breaks down recent COVID-19 and respiratory protection OSHA enforcement updates and shares how EHS software solutions can help organizations maintain compliance with federal respiratory protection requirements and reduce risk to workers. When COVID-19 infections were nearing their peak in many states this past spring, many worker advocacy groups […]
Keys to Implementing a Quality Management System
Implementing a quality management system (QMS) can be challenging for an organization, but it’s not an impossible task. Too often, manufacturers rush through the QMS implementation process, which inevitably leads to a poorly implemented and deployed system. Poorly implemented quality management systems can lock in inefficiencies, resulting in a lower than desired ROI. To avoid any potential mistakes, it’s […]
Can You Perform Root Cause Analysis Using the Scientific Method?
Can you perform a good root cause analysis following the scientific method? Some think it provides the only true answer. The scientific method can be applied to almost all fields of study as a problem-solving method and has been used for centuries to explore observations and answer questions. The 6 Steps of the Scientific Method […]
Quality Metrics: Why They Matter
As a quality management professional, you rely on timely metrics to do your job right the first time. The problem is that your quality system may actually be hindering how well you glean actionable, accurate information. If you struggle to analyze quality metrics manually, this blog post will reveal why it is so important to […]
Ask the Expert: Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention through Safety Culture Improvement
In a recent webinar, Cority’s Sean Baldry, CRSP, explored how slight changes to the way businesses approach safety culture can have dramatic results when it comes to serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention. Sean provides answers below to some of the great questions from audience members that we didn’t get a chance to cover during […]
Greenstone’s Investor ESG Software Awarded Product of the Year
This week, the Business Intelligence Group named Greenstone’s InvestorPortal ESG software ‘Sustainability Product of the Year’ in the 2020 Sustainability Awards program.* Greenstone recently launched InvestorPortal to enable responsible and sustainable investing for private capital investors. This purpose-built ESG Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution enables the collection, management and analysis of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) data […]
How Shifting Your Safety Culture Approach Can Reduce Serious Injuries and Fatalities
In the last two decades, organizations have taken notice of how the strength of their safety culture and ability to achieve sustainable safety performance and operational excellence play off each other. While the attention to culture may have helped lower Total Recordable Incident Rates (TRIR), rates for Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs) declined at a […]
How to Prepare for a Major Incident Investigation
If the recent news of explosions out of Beirut, Xiantao, and Baltimore has made anything clear is that major accidents can happen anywhere and at any time. These events often take weeks to stabilize and years to fully understand. Major accidents often feel random, and we hear phrases like “no one could have seen this […]
Managing Restricted Substances Throughout the Full Product Lifecycle: Achieving Excellence in Safety, Stewardship and Compliance
How does your organization manage restricted substances? Do you currently have a governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) network or chemical policy in place? Do you know which elements are considered essential as part of a plan to ensure consistent compliance? A GRC Network is an interconnected set of processes, rules, tools and systems to […]
Virginia’s New COVID-19 Standard: A Harbinger of Things to Come?
When essential workers reported for duty in the earliest weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, many argued their employers were ill-prepared to keep them safe on the job. Many businesses lacked a clear strategy to prevent virus transmission. Health screening protocols weren’t in place. Supplies of critical personal protective equipment were low with few replacements available. […]