THE ENVIANCE BLOG
Excerpt from:  Environmental Compliance
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January 26, 2006

Web Toolkit Demonstrates ROI on Environmental Compliance

Translate EHS compliance initiatives into Cost Saving Benefits

Attention all Environmental, Health and Safety engineers!  Check out this practical toolkit that makes it easy to demonstrate the value of your environmental compliance and safety programs such as pollution prevention and safety compliance. Here are the simple techniques you need to make the connections between EHS functions and your organization’s business values.

Simple charts and formulas help you translate each EHS program element into the relevant benefit for the organization, such as cost savings or increased revenues. Its practical approach gives you the vocabulary to speak the language of your CEO and CFO, using business value metrics they will understand.

The report describes the barriers between EHS performance and business value, and offers innovative and practical tools and techniques for selling Environmental Compliance initiatives to management.

The report covers:

  1. Barriers between EHS performance and business value
  2. EHS Functions as a business cost
  3. Understanding your business values
  4. Linking EHS performance to business value
  5. Synopses of special programs that enhance the business value of EHS functions and performance
  6. Seven steps toward integrating EHS as a business value (contains a sample Balanced Scorecard for visual effect)
  7. Glossary of terms for tracking business value EHS employee satisfaction survey

The tools also provides guidance on programs that help enhance the business value of EHS, including:

  • Environmental Management System (EMS)
  • Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS) 18000
  •  Six Sigma

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