Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Management Systems
What is C&IH's approach to developing EHS management systems?
- A corporate-wide paradigm approach that balances the needs of health and safety management with operations management
- Professional hazard identification and risk assessment conducted and incorporated into EHS management system
- Comprehensive, efficiency-driven EHS management system design that incorporates all process shareholder needs
For more than 20 years, Chemistry and Industrial Hygiene, Inc. has successfully developed environmental health and safety (EHS) management systems aligning financial business operating requirements with cost-effective and sustainable environmental, occupation health, and safety solutions. Our approach of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace hazards and their associated risks maximizes return on investment and improves quality of life for corporate clients and their employees.
C&IH advances risk management efforts by providing full service environmental health and safety management system consulting services including EHS management system analysis, design, development, implementation, maintenance, and auditing.
Systems Analysis and Design
- Evaluate existing corporate EHS management systems to understand strengths and weaknesses, corporate culture, and effectiveness
- Investigate environmental health and safety business directives and stakeholder requirements to properly define improvement objectives
- Conduct hazard evaluations and risk assessments to properly define the scope of the system
- Develop analytical models to evaluate potential management solutions
- Develop requirement-specific prototypes to analyze the effectiveness of the EHS management system

Implementation
- Integrate the newly developed or revised environmental health and safety management system into corporate operations
- Train executive management, line management, and other stakeholders in theoretical and practical application and use of chosen solution
- Evaluate return on investment considerations of the implemented management solution from the perspective of tangible dollars earned and intangible benefits gained (improved corporate culture, corporate transparency, product loyalty, hazard and risk prioritization, etc.)
Maintenance
- Review environmental health and safety management system effectiveness through periodic system audits
- Update and modify the EHS management system solution to meet changing corporate directives and EHS culture
- Perform environmental health and safety management system training at regular intervals to educate new employees and to reinforce system theory and use
Auditing
- Perform a needs assessment to determine scope of pre-audit activities, audit parameters, and audit milestones
- Complete EHS management system gap analysis and audit to evaluate and compare current corporate practices and procedures against self-defined, consensus, or performance standards
- Report audit observations, findings, conclusions, recommendations, and conduct post-audit consultation
