Join Our Discussion on Governance, Risk & Compliance Issues

February 12th, 2007

Welcome to the Governance, Risk and Compliance blog. We will be providing periodic posts to encourage perspectives on a wide range of issues related to corporate ethics and how it relates to emissions, environmental footprints and effects on global warming. We’ll also talk about other operational issues that impact public and private organizations. We hope you will also offer us your news items and commentary, and share your perspectives on the issues that impact organization heads, corporate directors, production managers, IT managers, compliance managers, corporate security managers and governmental incident commanders.

For those of you who are becoming acquainted with ESS for the first time, we are the leading global provider of innovative software solutions, training and services that help companies meet corporate governance goals through managing environmental compliance; health and safety compliance; corporate security support; and managing emergency response to natural and man-made disasters. We have been the industry leader for more than a decade, and our client portfolio includes more than 17,000 clients, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than half of the Fortune 500.

You can obtain more information about ESS on our Web site, www.ess-home.com.

This blog represents our effort to launch a high-level conversation designed to help organizations meet their goals for sustainability, and reduce various forms of operational risk. By offering this forum, we will provide perspectives that demonstrate how savvy organizations find ways to reduce costs and balance concerns that lead to a healthy triple bottom line for people, planet and profit.

As with any discussion, we will manage conduct on this site based on a few simple guidelines:

• We will respect proprietary information and confidentiality.
• We will be respectful when disagreeing with others’ opinions.

Thanks for joining our discussion.

Tags: health and safety operational risk management osha health safety compliance safety management

Entry Filed under: Sustainability