Meeting the Regulatory Challenge

Canadian environmental, health and safety regulations are presenting business and public sector organizations with tough new challenges – not only to ensure compliance but also to improve their long term performance. The growing list of regulations require organizations to record and manage impacts in a wide range of areas, from air and water emissions to the management of waste.

ESS' comprehensive, integrated software platforms give Canadian companies the opportunity to minimize the complexity of their compliance efforts, reducing risks and costs by leveraging EH&S information across the enterprise. Essential Compliance Manager™ helps organizations understand and track their status with regard to all kinds of regulations – what are the requirements, why decisions were made in the past and what effect new regulations may have on the cost of operations in the future. It is tightly integrated with Essential Task Manager™ to define, assign and verify completion of compliance tasks.

ESS software enables organizations to comply more easily and cost-effectively with regulations such as:

• Canada's Clean Air Act – designed to move industry from voluntary compliance to strict enforcement and takes an integrated approach to reducing emissions of both air pollutants and greenhouse gases. ESS' Essential Air™ is the most powerful tool of its kind, providing the ability to measure and document a broad array of air and GHG emissions. ESS is also one of the only software vendors offering a Fugitive Emissions Management System. Essential FEMS™ automates and simplifies fugitive emissions management for effective Leak Detection And Repair (LDAR) and it is fully integrated with the rest of Essential Suite™.
• The National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) – part of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) – covers over 300 pollutants from large factories, electrical utilities, municipal waste water treatment plants and certain oil and gas operations. ESS is well prepared to address NPRI regulations because our Essential Suite software is the leading solution for US Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting, leveraging the power of its integrated chemical inventory database to provide US companies with cost savings and improved productivity. (See HB Fuller case study.)
• The Chemical Management Plan categorizes 200 chemicals that are deemed harmful to human health and industry will be required to provide new information about how it is managing these chemicals. Essential Chemical Inventory™ provides users with the tools for chemical inventory management and automated reporting. Complementary Essential Suite modules generate reports for a wide range of regulatory requirements by tracking real-time information about hazardous waste and on-site chemicals.

For more information about how ESS software supports compliance with Canadian regulations for EHS and Crisis Management, please contact ESS Canada at 403.538.5448.