The Road Map™ to EHS Excellence
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How does an EHS organization synthesize its EHS goals, procedures, people, and audit programs to focus its resources on the facilities and EHS programs that need it most? You can do all this with the ENSR Road Map™ -- a powerful EHS performance tool that helps businesses more easily and cost-effectively achieve compliance and improve EHS performance. This tool is used to track, analyze, benchmark, and improve EH&S performance. By evaluating a site's EHS performance in the context of it's underlying risk, the Road Map™ provides a site with:
- A measure (score) of their current EHS management system
- A risk management score
- Specific instructions on how to improve their performance in each EHS category, and
- A gap analysis on specific performance categories, to aid in resource allocation.
The Road Map™" can be customized to individual corporate cultures, specific EH&S goals, and existing management systems. In addition, the Road Map™ program criteria describe best management practices that, if implemented, would position the site to obtain ISO 14001 certification. ISO 14001 references to specific indicators provide additional information to sites heading toward certification. Documented Road Map™ program results achieved by other ENSR clients include:
- A reduction in performance variability between sites,
- Advancement of best management practices,
- Achievement of cost savings, and
- Identification of cost avoidance opportunities.
The Road Map to EH&S Excellence Projects
United Dominion Industries (UDI) - UDI is a $2 billion manufacturer of engineered products for customers worldwide. UDI’s Road Map™ addresses such issues as maximizing the use of limited corporate staff, optimizing diversified international operations, and integrating EHS issues in to business needs.
Using the Road Map™’s performance and risk evaluation scores, UDI is able to plot a scatter diagram, using the EHS performance score on the Y-axis and the risk score on the X-axis. The scatter diagram is divided into quadrants, which range from low risk/high performance scores in Quadrant 1 to high risk/low performance in Quadrant 4.
The scatter diagram gives UDI’s executive and line managers a real-time "snapshot" of where each site falls from an EHS standpoint, and indicates what type of site strategy is needed to improve.
Continual improvement is now a simple process, because the Road Map™ can easily be revised to reflect changing EHS priorities and goals. For example, as initial performance goals are attained, new indicator elements can be added to "raise the bar". New performance measures can also be added to address new regulatory requirements, such as risk management plans. The results from each year’s evaluations help identify what changes need to be made to help UDI achieve its goals.
