Most managers agree that protecting people and the environment is all about prevention. But with today's tight budgets and cutbacks, the environmental and safety professions must choose wisely where to invest in prevention programs that will yield the best results. Knowing the details about your organization's incident history is one key component to improving and maintaining low incident rates and their associated injuries, illnesses, and environmental releases. By regulation, most of us have to report our incidents in accordance with our region's regulatory processes, and the Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) management systems do that very nicely. However, positive gains in efficiency and lower costs are gained by going beyond compliance to a point where you are anticipating and intervening with any negative trends that a proactive modern EHS management system can help identify. Beyond environmental incidents and accidents, the term "incident management" implies that any observations about hazards or unsafe behaviors are reported and addressed before they become a costly incident.
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