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Utilities and Environment
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance at the Lowest Price
Environmental facilities are required to report any incident that could have toxic consequences. The offending entity must analyze potential impact, report on it, and take all possible measures to restore the environment to its natural condition.
When a hazardous accident occurs, industry can expect environmental agencies and government to investigate the cause and effect of the accident.
Often times, these result in expensive actions taken against the company in the form of fines and law suits, not to mention bad public relations. To combat these actions, companies need to take corrective action and document their efforts in resolving the unfortunate accident. They should be able to give evidence that they had undertaken preventive action prior to the accident, and that after the incidents everything has been done in order to prevent any major impact. They should have a corporate policy to characterize and capture risks, deploy standardized business process and incidents tracking, as well as an ability to audit and improve to prevent future occurrence. Ennov is the one solution that can help achieve all these objectives.
Ennov as the Cornerstone for Litigation Preparedness and Action Planning
Ennov helps you achieve legal and regulatory compliance through a two fold approach.
Setting up an EDMS
The Ennov electronic document management system streamlines centralization and distribution of updated and validated documents to people concerned, according to their profile:
- Operating documents for normal conditions and in case of trouble-shooting
- Maintenance documentation
- Quality documentation, including operating procedures, certificates, record templates, MSDS, OSHA, ISO, etc?
- For each department, day-to-day documents to follow-up on suppliers, governmental agencies, customers?
- Reference documentation (expert keynotes, recommendations,?)
"...the operator is not required to pay for all the restorative measures if he can prove no mistake or no negligence has been committed and that he ... either respected the authorizations about the source of the damage or demonstrated the negative effects of his hazardous activity on the environment were unforeseeable..."
About the European directive 2004/35/CE of April 21rst 2004 on environmental liability presented at the senate in April 5th 2007.
A rigorous tracking of incidents
The Ennov solution allows an extensive follow up for incidents requiring corrective and preventive actions (CAPA). Within a few weeks of acquisition, key processes for documenting and managing CAPA can be formalized and automated. At the operational level, staffs are able to record incidents that will be stored and transmitted to the right people for action. On an interactive basis, an exhaustive audit trail keeps track of the way each incident is handled. This provides vital information for analysis in determining and controlling the level of risk.
Setting up a facility: Ennov5 to manage technical dossiers
When designing and building a new facility, a project manager must end the project by delivering complete documentation package about the engineered structure. Ennov can manage all versions of documents produced throughout the building process. The result is a dossier for final acceptance by assembling and organizing these various documents into a unique master document.
Ennov5 helps in many ways:
- Documents are being validated and an audit trail is created capturing each and every time a document is interacted with.
- Before the acceptance dossier is generated all documents have been updated, validated and made available.
- A drag and drop interface allows very simple integration of all documents to the dossier backbone.
- Global validation for the acceptance dossier may be done electronically.
- Acceptance dossier is published in a paper and an electronic format ? which is more and more frequently required.
Payback is immediate as Ennov5 eliminates delays on delivery due to incomplete documentation and associated financial penalties.
Environment and Utilities Clients who deployed Ennov5 for their quality management include CEA Marcoule (French Atomic Energy Commission), SIAAP (Parisian Region Water Sanitization Syndicate), Veolia Water.