Overseas Companies Looking for Health & Safety Solutions

July 5th, 2007

I’m back in Asia, having meetings during the past week with customers and potential customers in the Philippines. I have found that companies that are not ready to tackle environmental problems are quite interested in health and safety solutions, especially software that is integrated with emergency management modules. Most executives had no idea that EH&S solutions existed that were part of a single platform devoted to Prevention, Mitigation, and Performance, appearing on their portals as unified data. The emergency management piece, which is part of our Mitigation offering, drew particular attention.

One of the most pressing issues around emergency management is the coordination of communications, and we were told repeatedly about needs in this area. I’m glad we’ve got something good to offer.

This is a long way from compliance, which is where we started building our software. We are now into the larger areas of operational risk, as part of governance, risk and compliance. When I look back, I have seen that our horizon has been expanding over the past ten or twelve years.

We are just following the lead of our customers who have begun to see their needs from a more strategic perspective. This week I learned from an article in the New York Times that many large corporations are now including a CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer) in the executive suite. The compliance officer reports to the CSO. I predict that this move from Compliance to Sustainability will be a fast-growing trend.

Tags: asia emergency management environmental problems health and safety

Entry Filed under: Corporate Governance, Crisis Management, Workplace Safety