While Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is a critical focus for many organizations, for manufacturers within high-risk type industries—chemicals, oil and gas, metals, mining, etc.—the stakes get even higher and the challenges perhaps even harder when it comes to EHS. In fact, necessity has made these companies within high-risk, asset-intensive industries early pioneers in EHS management systems and supporting technologies given the hazards inherent in their line of work and the potentially grave consequences of not getting things right. Still, more work lies ahead.
在他最新的研究报告中，LNS研究的主要分析师Peter Bussey看着高风险的行业如何面临独特的EHS挑战以及它们的新机遇。
“我们的研究表明，虽然高风险行业在EHS管理的某些方面提出，但他们还具有重要机会，利用新的方法，最佳实践和技术来提高性能，”Bussey说。“这些行业有真正的机会利用正在进行的产业转型（IX）倡议推动EHS和业务绩效改进。”
根据布赛,高风险的工业业务ns share some common characteristics that impact the scope and intensity of their EHS compliance obligations and operational risk profile—things like managing hazardous materials, heavy regulation, distributed workforces, intense scrutiny of sustainability risks, and potentially major consequences from management system failures, among others.
“这并不是说其他[工业]行业没有明显的EHS要求，风险和必须用于运营卓越的挑战，”Bussey解释说。“然而，由于其运营的性质，高风险行业往往具有更广泛的危险和更强烈的风险形象。”
高风险工业公司的景观继续增加这些挑战，特别是在大流行中。虽然许多不同行业的供应链中断和日益增长的劳动力短缺等挑战，但这只会增加更多强度对EHS的影响。此外，Covid-19进一步照明了对工作场所安全的需求，并增加了对法规要求的关注。
那么如何在高风险中，资产密集型产业如何处理这些越来越大的挑战，并确保满足最佳EHS目标？LNS Research已经确定了这些公司利用IX趋势的许多重要机会，以提高EHS能力成熟，以提高性能。
Among the recommendations Bussey has for manufacturers in high-risk industries when it comes to EHS opportunities is standardizing business processes. “Our research shows that high-risk industrials reported 21% less enterprise standardization of core EHS business processes compared to the EHS leader group,” he said.
Bussey进一步表明，制造商应建立一个EHS记录系统，汇聚EHS和运营，利用数据分析进行预测风险管理，也许最重要的是，“将人们放在中心”，并将有连接的前线劳动力。
