SAP Solution Brief
SAP ERP Corporate Services
SAP Environment, Health, and
Safety Management
With the SAP® Environment,
Health, and Safety Manage-
ment (SAP EHS Manage-
ment) application, you can
implement a single inte-
grated solution to manage
regulatory compliance and
operational risk for EHS
and support sustainability
initiatives across global
business processes.
MANAGING ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH,
AND SAFETY
REDUCE OPERATIONAL RISK WHILE
SUPPORTING SUSTAINABILITY
Traditionally, the effectiveness of an
organization has been measured solely
on the basis of financial results. This
is no longer the case. Along with
profitability, company stakeholders have
increased concerns about protecting
corporate reputation and brand value,
reducing operational risk, and improving
sustainability performance. They now
demand that organizations meet
guidelines for corporate responsibility
while minimizing the cost of managing
compliance.
Global companies face a growing
number of national and international
rules and regulations that are becoming
more and more complex, resulting in
higher compliance costs and greater
business risks. Manual approaches to
compliance, for example, simply cannot
keep pace with the sheer volume of
global and local regulations. And where
compliance solutions exist, they are
often designed to address specific
regulations at the plant or local level –
without integration into business opera-
tions and without the ability to meet
the larger needs of the organization
at the enterprise level. Overall, a
persistent lack of IT integration and
poor visibility into business operations
make the cost of achieving safety and
compliance prohibitive.
The SAP® Environment, Health, and
Safety Management (SAP EHS
Management) application can provide
an answer. It is a comprehensive inte-
grated application that helps companies
implement their EHS strategies to
govern and execute their EHS compli-
ance and risk management initiatives
on a local and global level. With its
broad range of functionalities and global
scalability, SAP EHS Management helps
companies overcome the challenges
of disconnected systems, regions,
and departments. Because SAP EHS
Management offers an integrated set
of functions – rather than disconnected
IT tool sets – customers can surmount
the limitations inherent in silo-based
EHS software deployments. The appli-
cation provides support for executives
to handle regulatory compliance, take
an integrated approach to operational
risk management, and address the
needs of their corporate sustainability
initiatives.
Integration: The Key to Corporate
Sustainability
SAP EHS Management works with
your existing SAP software landscape,
integrating your compliance needs
into the way you do business. Unlike
applications that focus narrowly on
specific regulations, SAP EHS Manage-
ment supports an end-to-end EHS
compliance management process.
Because it is an integrated part of
the SAP ERP application, it supports
operational transparency. And as
part of SAP BusinessObjects™ gover-
nance, risk, and compliance solutions,
it helps you monitor and promote
ethical business conduct. This can
help you establish a strong reputation
for corporate accountability and
responsibility.
As shown in Figure 1, the application
provides comprehensive support for
you to perform processes across
the three fundamental pillars of EHS
compliance management: health and
safety, environmental performance,
and product safety and stewardship.
Product Safety
Environmental
and
Stewardship
Performance
SAP® EHS
Management
Health and Safety
Figure 1: Three Pillars of SAP Environment,
Health, and Safety Management
Health and Safety
Your people are your most valuable
resource, and ensuring their health and
safety is both a business imperative
and a moral obligation. SAP EHS
Management not only helps your busi-
ness comply with the health and safety
regulations that affect your workers,
but it also helps ensure your workers’
safety and performance on the job.
SAP EHS Management helps you
streamline EHS operations across your
company and supporting processes for
risk assessment, incident management,
and health surveillance. For example,
drawing on information supplied by the
asset life-cycle management functions
in SAP ERP, you can arrange, follow
up, and assess plant maintenance
tasks. And tight integration with human
resources (HR) and other business pro-
cesses allows SAP EHS Management
to track the healthcare of employees
and monitor results and diagnoses.
Ultimately, SAP EHS Management
helps you reduce costs and save time
by keeping your occupational health
information up-to-date, and by auto-
mating medically and legally mandated
reporting. It also enables you to stream-
line collaboration among the key partici-
pants involved in worker health and
safety, including industrial health and
safety professionals, HR professionals,
medical personnel, and external
authorities.
Environmental Performance
SAP EHS Management is a compre-
hensive offering that helps you run
operations, factories, and plants in an
environmentally responsible manner
and comply with regulations affecting
air, water, and land. You can monitor
facility emissions and simultaneously
maintain emissions accounting so that
your business can leverage maximum
benefits in the carbon trading and tax
arenas. The software also supports full
permit management of air, water, and
waste emissions, helping you to fulfill
regulatory obligations – whether local,
national, or international.
The application further augments your
environmental compliance functionality
by automatically generating product
safety documentation, bills of material,
and safety data sheets, to save you
significant time and resources. In addi-
tion, it allows you to fully integrate your
waste management processes with
your other business software to better
track activities related to materials,
compliance, manifests, transportation,
and disposal.
Because SAP EHS Management also
integrates with key applications such as
plant maintenance and manufacturing
execution systems, it supports you in
making compliance-related business
processes that are aligned, auditable,
and transparent. This helps provide
you with automated reporting, early
identification of deviations, and com-
prehensive site-data reporting for enter-
prise planning and risk management.
The software also supports standard-
ized best practices to reduce your
workload and make compliance easier
and more efficient.
Product Safety and Stewardship
Adopting regional and global standards
for product and chemical handling and
disposal poses significant compliance
and safety challenges. To remain com-
petitive, companies need responsible
product design and manufacturing
processes, as well as a transparent
supply chain to ensure safe and compli-
ant sales and distribution.
SAP EHS Management takes a uniform
and integrated approach to complying
with the mandates that regulate the
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation
and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).
By enabling collaboration among your
supply chain partners, the software
allows you to track and document sub-
stances used in your products. You can
quickly classify reportable and non-
reportable substances; automate prereg-
istration and registration processes for
the European Chemicals Agency; and
provide comprehensive substance
inventory support, usage and exposure
management, and volume tracking.
The application supports companies in
meeting regulatory mandates such as
the restriction of hazardous substances
directive (RoHS) or the waste in electri-
cal and electronic equipment directive
(WEEE). It helps your business ensure
safe handling and disposal of electronic
waste, for example, and simplifies your
compliance efforts by integrating new
and existing local and global product
regulations. The ability to manage regu-
latory content with an application fully
integrated across your supply chain
helps you streamline the collection,
organization, and dissemination of data.
It also helps you automate processes
to support compliance activities across
your supply chain.
SAP EHS Management helps you meet
global, federal, and regional standards
for product safety and hazardous
substance management with functions
such as automatic composition calcula-
tion and safety data sheet authoring,
management, and shipping. It also
helps you manage the logistics related
to such materials with global label man-
agement and generation of inventory
reports for hazardous substances – such
as the labeling and reports required
to comply with the U.S. Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act
(SARA). In addition, it supports the
purchasing process for hazardous
materials while helping you meet the
mandates posed by global and local
regulations such as section 12(b) of
the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Compliance and Sustainability to
Yield Real Business Value
SAP EHS Management can support
you in conducting efficient comprehen-
sive EHS risk management across
global business processes. It can help
you streamline compliance processes
toward reducing the costs of managing
EHS risks. SAP EHS Management
allows companies to centralize collec-
tion of EHS information and report
successfully on the positive impact of
global EHS strategies. That ability helps
companies to demonstrate leadership
in EHS responsibility and sustainability,
and enhance their corporate image and
brand value. Ultimately, the application
supports you in achieving key benefits
in these areas:
• Lower risk by staying current with
ever-changing regulations to track,
validate, and prepare the required
documentation and reports
• Manage EHS compliance and cor-
porate responsibility effectively and
efficiently by deploying best busi-
ness practices and controlling EHS
processes globally. You can reduce
costs with integrated, automated,
auditable compliance processes
throughout the company – even
within a changing organizational
structure and extended supply chain.
• Support management and EHS
experts with a comprehensive
scalable solution that addresses
EHS experts’ tasks related to health
and safety, product safety and
stewardship, and environmental
performance in a sustainable manner
Find Out More
To learn more about SAP EHS
Management, contact your SAP
representative today or visit us
online at www.sap.com/ehs.
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Summary
The SAP® Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management)
application can help you achieve comprehensive and sustainable regulatory compliance
in the areas of health, safety, and the environment as well as in chemical and product
stewardship. By leveraging your existing SAP software environment, it helps you
integrate compliance and safety activities with current business processes and improve
sustainability performance.

Business Challenges
• Manage risk and comply with EHS regulations around the world
• Reduce the costs of managing environment, health, and safety risks
• Address the increasing importance of corporate responsibility and sustainability

Key Features
• Health and safety – Help ensure safety in the workplace and comply with health and
safety regulations that affect workers
• Environmental performance – Run operations, factories, and plants in a sustainable way
and comply with regulations affecting air, water, and land
• Product safety and stewardship – Support the safe handling and disposal of regulated
products and full compliance with regulations; meet local, national, and global regulations
regarding chemical substances

Business Benefits
• Enhance sustainability initiatives by supporting the integration of corporate policies and
EHS compliance activities into related business processes
• Improve risk mitigation by identifying and addressing business risks that derive from
EHS failure and noncompliance
• Improve EHS performance and reduce compliance and operating costs with integrated
EHS processes applied across the enterprise
• Get transparent EHS performance through a reliable foundation for auditing, documenting,
and communicating relevant EHS information
• Achieve compliant operations for most business processes and regions
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