ESS Health & Safety Solution™

Businesses who achieve zero work-related injuries can realize several operational benefits including cost reductions, business growth and responsive risk management. Every employer has a social and/or a legal obligation to provide and maintain a safe and healthful workplace for employees. In addition it makes business sense; the cost of a lost workday injury is substantial. For every dollar spent on the direct costs of a worker's injury or illness, much more is spent to cover the hidden costs.

Business Value

Support Business Growth

Smart Sourcing - Many companies review worker safety performance before determining which vendors to commission for outsourced tasks.
Policy Compliance - Organizations have policies which prevent vendors with high Experience Modification Rates from being selected.
Productivity - Companies with excellent worker safety performance have a competitive advantage.

Strengthen Risk Management

Operational Risk – Use hazard assessment techniques to understand health and safety risks within your organization and focus resources to reducing the risks with the highest impact.
Strategic Risk - Greater health and safety information transparency and insight enables your decision makers to select or reject improvement investments based on risk impact and probability relative to potential recurrence.
Compliance Risk - Improve your reputation with investors, community and employees by investing in prevention and regulatory compliance.
Financial Risk - Mitigate your risk of lost revenue by returning to full operations quickly in the event a disruption occurs.

Achieve Cost Reductions

Employee injuries and time away from work attending to the accident;
Revenue lost due to operations interruption caused by the accident;
Repair or replace damaged equipment, hire or to retrain replacements;
Continuing compensation to injured employees;
Low morale among employees and future hires;
Mitigate the risk of rising workers' compensation rates - Experience Modification Rate; and
Administrative Costs associated with processing and filing regulatory paperwork

Information Challenges

	Challenges	Solution Capabilities
	Cost control associated with employee workers' compensation and filing and processing claim and regulatory paperwork.	Track costs of worker compensation claims to assist in negotiating and maintaining reasonable annual premiums. Eliminate redundant data entry with user-defined, customizable data forms.
	Accurately tracking recordable injury data and maintaining employee records regarding time lost due to injury or illness.	Highlighted record fields make it easier to enter necessary data when an incident is reported and return to complete as needed, instead of waiting to enter records in batch.
	Maintaining easily accessible material hazard information for all employees regardless of location or function.	Web-enabled database of material information can be maintained online, so that anyone with a computer or mobile device connection can access safety data on chemicals as they need it.
	Mitigating hazards and developing safety programs that are preventative rather than reactionary.	Automating job hazard analysis process makes regular tracking of hazardous conditions and locations easier, thereby making changes to environments and safety plans easier.

Solution Packages

ESS offers these suggested solution packages to meet the needs of evolving health and safety programs. Our solution team will address your specific needs to develop a suggested set of software, content and services to quickly help deliver on improvement goals or eliminate critical business issues. Because we believe each customer is unique, ESS solution packages are designed to be tailored to individual needs. For information about the ESS Health & Safety Solution, contact us at 800.289.6116 or email us.

	Solution Package	Package Options Quick Review
	Health and Safety Compliance The Health and Safety Compliance Solution is designed to provide capabilities needed to meet health and safety regulatory compliance.	Injury and Illness Tracking Flexible Incident Type Data Collection and Reporting Corrective Action Tracking Email Alerts and Warnings Injury and Illness Metrics Communications Hazardous Materials Communications Emergency Planning Materials (MSDS) Content Regulatory List of List Content Regulatory Reporting Content Industrial Hygiene Sampling Languages Training Services Implementation and Configuration Services Multiple Application Delivery Options
	Health and Safety Management System The ESS Health and Safety Management Systems Solution builds on the foundation of the Heath and Safety Compliance Solution. This solution adds capabilities to support a management systems approach to risk management.	All options from Health and Safety Compliance plus: Policy and Procedure Management Risk Assessment and Risk Ranking Job Hazard Assessments Behavior Based Safety Assessments Compliance Auditing Training Tracking Health and Safety Performance Metrics Liability Claims and Case Management Languages Training Services Implementation and Configuration Services Multiple Application Delivery Options