IHS Environmental Performance Solution
What if you could reach beyond regulations to enable proactive decisions that enhance efficiency and competitiveness?
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Organizations worldwide are struggling to comply with a proliferating patchwork of government environmental regulations, voluntary reporting protocols, industry standards and corporate initiatives. At the same time, increasing compliance obligations also require a level of accuracy, comparability and traceability that is similar to standards for financial reporting.
The IHS Environmental Performance Solution gives you the ability to manage all of these critical issues:
- Air Emissions: Tracks, analyzes and reports any pollutant air emission. IHS also helps organizations manage fugitive emissions and refrigerant compliance requirements.
- Hazardous Waste Management: Follows waste container movements from generation to final disposal. Creates waste profiles and transporters; establishes approved treatment, storage and disposal facilities; and generates hazardous waste manifests in all regulatory formats.
- Water Usage and Discharge: Supports improved resource utilization and cost-control strategies by providing information for surface water discharge, groundwater remediation projects, drinking water sampling or treatment effectiveness and reporting needs.
- Chemical Inventory: Reports toxic substances emitted to air, water and waste in accordance with mandated threshold analyses.
- Auditing: Captures and manages operational data in order to assure compliance with government regulations, global protocols, industry standards and corporate policies.
- Permits & Regulatory Applicability: Streamlines and delivers content to enable efficient processing of application and management of environmental permits.
- Performance Metrics: Analyzes, benchmarks and rolls up environmental performance indicators for monitoring and managing of site level, intermediate or overall corporate goals.
- Task Management: Automates environmental compliance tasking with built-in change management that is comprehensive, assured, verifiable and sustained.
- Process Data Management: Provides out-of-the-box, rapid implementation connectivity with field devices and data historians to establish and maintain end-to-end environmental data source access and integrity.
IHS provides the industry’s most comprehensive managed regulatory content and associated workflow processes to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations around the world. Our experts maintain and monitor in-depth information about regulations such as the U.S. Clean Air and Water Act, the European Pollutant Emission Register and Australia’s National Pollutant Inventory. IHS also specializes in monitoring and publishing online regulatory text for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. This online regulatory content service is integrated with IHS software to facilitate the assignment and tracking of tasks at the operational level in order to drive end-to-end compliance.
IHS Environmental Performance Solution can help you minimize operational disruption due to changing environmental regulations and maximize the opportunity to gain a competitive advantage.