Today, environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) mandates are numerous and complex. You must minimize your environment, health and safety risks by ensuring legal compliance, and supporting corporate sustainability policies – with a focus on cost and resource containment. SAP provides applications that help you comply with regional and global environmental regulations, support worker health and safety programs, and manage to corporate policies across business processes and the enterprise. These solutions address challenges such as:

• Lowering risks by staying current with ever-changing regulations and trends
• Reducing costs of achieving and managing environment, health and safety
• Managing environment, health and safety more effectively with timely information to make corrective actions

SAP helps you manage these challenges with the following applications:

• SAP Environment, Health & Safety – Supports management of EH&S, industrial hygiene, and occupational health processes – and compliance for product safety, hazardous substances, dangerous goods, and waste management
• SAP Environmental Compliance – Helps you ensure compliance with environmental laws and policies – and reduce associated costs, efforts, and risks on plant and corporate levels
• SAP REACH Compliance – Helps to comply with product and material compliance regulations for all industries and helps to secure your right to market your products
• SAP Recycling Administration – Helps you ensure compliance with worldwide recycling legislation for packaging, batteries, and WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment)

These applications embed corporate policies; compliance; and environment, health, and safety capabilities with global business processes for human resources, logistics, production, and finance. With EH&S compliance management functionality embedded into related business processes, your compliance activities become more efficient and proactive.

Key Benefits

Forward-looking organizations seek a cost-effective, reliable, and sustainable approach to EH&S management. With SAP's applications for environment, health, and safety compliance management, you gain three key benefits:

• Minimize environmental, occupational, and financial risks by staying up-to-date with ever-changing regulations, and trends
• Reduce cost and effort of environmental and occupational compliance
• Manage environmental and occupational compliance and corporate responsibility more effectively, with up-to-date information to make appropriate preventive actions.