EPA Announces New Web Site Listing Regulations With Potential Impact on Agriculture 13 JUNE 2007
EPA today announced a new Web site containing an easy and succinct look-up tool listing federal environmental regulations that could potentially apply to agriculture.
OSHA implements National Emphasis Program to eliminate highly hazardous chemicals in the petrochemical industry 13 JUNE 2007
OSHA has published a directive implementing a National Emphasis Program to help eliminate workplace hazards associated with the release of highly hazardous chemicals at petroleum refineries.
National Safety Council Report: Accidental Deaths on the Rise 12 JUNE 2007
Accidentaldeaths in the United States are rising at an alarming rate, more than 20 percent over a 10-year period, according to the latest data available.
That depends on whether you deploy ehsSUITE as an application service provided (ASP) solution or you determine that your company prefers to install and mange the ehsSUITE behind your trusted corporate firewall. The ehsSUITE solution is the only one that provides both deployment alternatives.
For ASP deployment (a vendor hosted solution), the ehsSUITE team will provide all necessary hardware and software to securely deploy your solution. To install ehsSUITE on your own servers, all you need is a modern server operating Microsoft's Sever software and either MS SQL Server or Oracle as your database.
For both the hosted and company deployed solutions, the client is the same, a thin web client of Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. And yes, ehsSUITE is now fully compatible with IE version 7.0.
Q: Does ehsSUITE provide preconfigured reporting to OSHA and COHS?
Yes. The ehsSUITE solution contains a powerful report generator that allows your facility to produce a number of various reports, including preconfigured reports for OSHA and COHS.
Q: How can ehsSUITE help our facility develop and manage a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) program?
The ehsSUITE solution provides many tools for the management of exposure to hazardous conditions and substances. Provide your employees, contractors, and visitors with information and equipment to protect them from injury or illness. The ehsSUITE solution provides the features necessary to implement and manage a effective PPE program. The ehsSUITE solution manages all personal protective equipment and provides online access to instructions for proper use, regulatory requirements, and inventory.
Q: How can ehsSUITE improve the overall success level of my facility?
The ehsSUITE solution will improve the overall employee morale, reduce the amount of lost time due to employee injury or illness, decrease the number of workplace injuries, and lower your Worker's Compensation insurance cost by increasing the safety of your employees and the workplace.
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Q: Can ehsSUITE provide organizational visibility of all compliance issues?
Absolutely. The ehsSUITE solution provides real-time knowledge of all compliance-based liability issues. The flow of data through the advanced infrastructure enables all users to instantly access the same critical information. With ehsSUITE, you are assured to have no false-positives because the data is validated before it ever gets into a report. The ehsSUITE solution provides a secure insight into all compliance issues that affect your organization.
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Q: Can ehsSUITE deliver both user interfaces and data and content in different languages?
Yes, ehsSUITE offers multi-lingual support for the user interface and configured content. If you are a global company or simply have a diverse employee base, then ehsSUITE is your best choice for compliance management. Environmental compliance, employee health and safety, and plant security are too important to not deliver data and information in a person's native language.
Click here to learn more about the Built-in Language Translation.
Q: Can ehsSUITE help an organization decrease its exposure to liability?
Absolutely! ehsSUITE is uniquely designed with exclusive predictive alarming capabilities that deliver accurate information in a timely manner, allowing your facility to anticipate and negate any possible excursions or violations. This proactive approach to management provides your facility with the tools necessary to decrease regulatory liability exposure due to potential non-compliance.
Q: Can ehsSUITE provide immediate notifications for critical events?
Yes, ehsSUITE has very strong data and information validation technologies coupled with the most advanced notification and alarming tools. The result is a solution that provides instant notifications of critical information during periods where accurate and timely information is of the utmost importance. The design of our software creates a real-time infrastructure to seamlessly convey data and information in a variety of formats.
Q: Does ehsSUITE have the capability to generate reports, including those necessary to comply with all regulatory agencies having authority over my facility?
The ehsSUITE soluton is easily configurable to meet the reporting requirements for any facility or operation to meet the requirements for any regulatory requirement. Whether the requirement has been established by a federal, state,provincial, local, or other juristicional requirement, ehsSUITE can be configured to meet that standard.
In addition to the generation of reports in Microsoft Word, Excel and Adobe PDF, ehsSUITE also supports all electronic data reporting for EPA, OSHA, and any state, provincial, or local agency. These formats includes XML, EPA's EDR, Texas' STEERS, eDMR, and many more.
Q: Can ehsSUITE track and report trends in incident rates?
The ehsSUITE soluton allows you to track the increases and reductions in your incident/accident rates in order to determine the effectiveness of your safety programs. Without the ability to track safety data, it would be impossible to know which actions to take to correct the problems. With ehsSUITE, statistical and graphical analysis functionality determining the root safety hazard is quick and easy.
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Q: Where can I find more information about the ehsSUITE software?
The best place to find information, including product descriptions, is on our website. When you register with ehsSUITE, you will have access to product information, press releases, and more.
You can also request information by calling our corporate office at (281) 286-8500 or by emailing us at contact@ehsSUITE.com.
Click here to learn more about the features of ehsSUITE.
Q: If I upgrade my database, should I upgrade the ehsSUITE version also?
Yes, it is always recommended that you upgrade both versions. Back to top
Q: Can ehsSUITE be run on an existing information management system?
Yes, ehsSUITE be run on an existing information management systems, but because of the importance of environmental information, most users prefer to run ehsSUITE on its own dedicated system. Back to top
Q: Can ehsSUITE connect to external sources of data?
This is actually the strength of the ehsSUITE solution. We have interfaces to all major programmable logic controllers (PLC), distributive control systems (DCS), and data historians. We also have interfaces to connect to any CEMS controller or data logger. Our engineers can quickly provide or configure interfaces to meet your requirements.
We also provide interfaces to all databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and many others. We also can connect to other proprietary systems through a SDK or API provided by the vendor.
Q: What are the recommended server requirements for ehsSUITE?
Recommended Server Requirements for ehsSUITE
The ehsSUITE product can run on one or two servers. Similar to Microsoft, the ehsSUITE team does caution our customers on the installation of IIS and database software operating on the same server. However, we have several clients that do configure their hardware in this fashion.
For the web server and database server we recommend the following.
Our software is 100% rendered by a web server and sent to the client's browser. The software is compatible with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, version 6.0 and higher, including version 7.0.
R IE 6.0 or higher
R Macromedia Flash
R Acrobat Reader
R MS Office (Word and Excel) for reporting and data export
R 1024 x 768 screen resolution
It is not recommended that IIS and the database software be installed on the same server.
Please click here to download the PDF version of the ehsSUITE System Requirements
Q: Do you have a client/server version of your software that can be housed at a customer site?
Our software is an asp.net web application that operates on either a MS SQL or Oracle Server. This can be installed on a local server at the customer's intranet or available over the corporate WAN. We could also host on a secure server, but most of our customers prefer a local installation. Back to top
Q: Do you have a web interface? If so, does it support IIS? Does it use ASP or ASP.NET?
