Environment, Health, and Safety Compliance Management

Main Process

 

• Identify and minimize employee health risks -- Enhance employee health and safety with complete support for industrial hygiene, safety, and occupational health functions -- helping you ensure compliance with government safety regulations.
• Support preventive health care -- Record all relevant health protocol data, allowing you to track employee health care, and monitor the results of medical examinations and diagnoses.
• Ensure product safety and hazardous substance management -- Use specific product-safety functions, including automatic product composition calculation, rule-based material safety data sheets (MSDS) authoring, automatic MSDS generation, global label management capabilities, and MSDS shipping. SAP EH&S includes inventory reports for hazardous substances, substance volume tracking functions and a substance information search system that can block or approve the purchase of hazardous materials.
• Track dangerous goods -- Store and manage regulatory data, classify dangerous goods, perform checks during transport, and compile and update dangerous goods documentation. SAP EH&S can automatically supply data to other applications for use in delivery notes and packing lists. The solution can also automatically identify appropriate transportation channels and ensure that shipments comply with regulations before leaving the premises.
• Manage waste disposal -- Comply with waste disposal laws and regulations with functions that help ensure the efficient disposal of both hazardous and nonhazardous waste. You can manage waste data, create hazardous waste permits, select disposal firms, allocate disposal costs among internal departments, and ensure that authorized waste quantities are not exceeded.
  
  

• Monitor and report all environment compliance issues on plant as well as on corporate level
• Control compliance activities, manage exceptions, and track limits
• Support all legal and corportate defined environmental processes, in particular compliance reporting, permit management, and all processes concerning any kind of air, water, and waste emissions
• Streamline all environmental processes by seamless integration with operations control data, production control systems, and components from SAP systems such as Environment, Health and Safety, Enterprise Asset Management, Materials Management, xMII, Business Intelligence, and Knowledge Management

SAP Recycling Administration provides the following benefits:

• Increase efficiency and minimize cost by centralizing regulatory knowledge, streamlining declaration management, and leveraging preconfigured templates that support more than 50 different compliance schemes.
• Improve data quality by accurately tracking quantity flows of packaging, covered products, and batteries in circulation.
• Maximize compliance control by accurately calculating product-related recycling fees, automatically displaying fees on billing documents and timely generating declarations based on up-to-date compliance scheme information.
•   Minimize rework by successfully passing audits based on the automatically generated documentation trails.
• Increase visibility of recycling cost by drilling down into cost bases and cross product, cross country management reporting.
• Gain advantage by proactively adopting upcoming packaging sustainability standards from distributors like Wal-Mart.

 Compliance for Products provides the following functions:

• Reduces your time and efforts for reducing compliance risks and business efforts to be compliance and stay competitive
• Ensures visibility and transparency on the compliance status of materials, parts and products internal and to external partners
• Improves product development by sharing up-to-date information with all people involved in environmental efforts
• Reduces logistic costs by using the same master data for all materials, parts and products
• Harmonizes system landscape while using an adoptive business solution which covers all existing and upcoming regulations such as the international material data system (IMDS), the directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) and the directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
• Leverages SAP NetWeaver technology to reduce TCO and uses a common data exchange platform for communication with internal and external business partners