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When looking for an EHS safety management that is ideal for your organization, there is a lot to take into consideration—with so many options out there it becomes difficult to choose the system that will provide the most value.
To ensure you get the most long-term value for you money, look for an EHS software system that provides these 5 features.
Flexibility
Many systems may claim to be flexible but few can back up this claim. Flexibility is important to ensure that the system will fit your individual business needs. To be truly effective, the EHS system must be built on a dynamic workflow platform. The software platform should be flexible enough to be molded in such a way to allow it to be expanded with best practice applications and to automate the process of collecting adverse events, conducting corrective actions on those events, and providing document control.
This covers the standard workflow for EHS management but you should also be able to adjust these processes to suit your preference. It’s EHS management outside of the box. In this respect, the flexibility of the dynamic workflow is invaluable. It’s important to look for a system that can adapt to your existing processes and change when these processes change. This is one of the key considerations when looking into software solutions and can affect future functionality and cost. For instance, some software systems are built on a generic best-practices approach that can only be changed with additional time and cost. This means that the business process you’ve spent years perfecting will have to be discarded and you will have to implement a new process—and train your employees on that process. The cost of making these changes to adapt to your system can eventually outweigh the initial cost of the system.
A flexible EHS system will allow you to easily configure keywords, logins and pages as you’d like. Basically, it’s the ability to make the software your own, without the need for IT assistance. For instance, graphical tools like drag and drop will allow the user to make changes to the look and feel of the system, without the need for programming knowledge. This in itself is a key part in making the user comfortable with the system.
To ensure you get the most long-term value for you money, look for an EHS software system that provides these 5 features.
Flexibility
Many systems may claim to be flexible but few can back up this claim. Flexibility is important to ensure that the system will fit your individual business needs. To be truly effective, the EHS system must be built on a dynamic workflow platform. The software platform should be flexible enough to be molded in such a way to allow it to be expanded with best practice applications and to automate the process of collecting adverse events, conducting corrective actions on those events, and providing document control.
This covers the standard workflow for EHS management but you should also be able to adjust these processes to suit your preference. It’s EHS management outside of the box. In this respect, the flexibility of the dynamic workflow is invaluable. It’s important to look for a system that can adapt to your existing processes and change when these processes change. This is one of the key considerations when looking into software solutions and can affect future functionality and cost. For instance, some software systems are built on a generic best-practices approach that can only be changed with additional time and cost. This means that the business process you’ve spent years perfecting will have to be discarded and you will have to implement a new process—and train your employees on that process. The cost of making these changes to adapt to your system can eventually outweigh the initial cost of the system.
A flexible EHS system will allow you to easily configure keywords, logins and pages as you’d like. Basically, it’s the ability to make the software your own, without the need for IT assistance. For instance, graphical tools like drag and drop will allow the user to make changes to the look and feel of the system, without the need for programming knowledge. This in itself is a key part in making the user comfortable with the system.