COVID-19 EHS&S Resources
Benchmark your EHS management best practices during the new normal and learn new tools for continuous improvementNAEM offers free COVID-19 management resources for EHS & Sustainability leaders, as well as confidential benchmarking materials for corporate members.
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Benchmarking Corporate Sustainability Priorities
ReportTake a look behind the scenes at the effects of unprecedented challenges — a deep economic recession, COVID-19’s long-term impacts and social unrest — on corporate sustainability. -
How COVID-19 Is Impacting the EHS Function: The First Industry Benchmark
ReportLearn how other companies have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted their EHS operations, based on a quantitative benchmarking survey, interviews, and facilitated group discussions.
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Mitigating Disease Spread in the Workplace: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
WebinarDo your workplace safety plans include mitigation strategies for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases? This webinar will examine disease-causing microbes and discuss the key elements to consider in your return-to-work plans, including effective prevention and mitigation practices. -
Virtual Audits: Planning is Key
WebinarAt a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has grounded most corporate EHS auditors, there has been a press of activity to quickly execute virtual audits. The planning phase is key to realizing meaningful results in undertaking virtual audits. This one-hour webinar will enable EHS audit managers to initiate an agile planning process driven by continuous improvement to achieve better performance even while launching virtual audits. -
A First Look at the Impact of COVID-19 on EHS Functions
WebinarJoin EHS leaders to discuss COVID-19's impact on EHS functions. You'll gain insights on how COVID-19 is reshaping EHS budgets, staffing, program goals and operations, as well as benchmark how you’re coping as compared to the results in NAEM’s report. -
Tips to Getting Your Business Ready to Re-Open In Person and Keeping Those Already Working In-Person Safe
WebinarThis webinar will help anyone who plans to have employees working in-person with safety measures. It’ll cover a number of digital solutions, such as facial recognition, thermal scanning, and movement models to create resilient safety measures and optimize worker flow. -
Leveraging Technology to Complete EHS Tasks Remotely
WebinarWhat remote technologies can be most effectively leveraged to accomplish EHS tasks, particularly during extreme situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic? Learn about a range of applications for these technologies, along with what's needed to implement them, and get a practical demonstration of their capabilities.
Arcadis: COVID-19 has led many organizations to redefine resiliency and brought into focus how difficult it is to prepare for an uncertain and unpredictable future. Arcadis has gathered advice from our experts around the globe on how
organizations can leverage the pandemic to enhance their resilience. Click here for more information.
Intelex: Bringing employees back safely and returning to full operations while maintaining compliance and minimizing your risk exposure is top of mind right now. Let Intelex help you reimagine your business and protect your employees from harm. Click here to learn more.
KPA Online: KPA is committed to helping organizations like yours minimize COVID-19 workplace risks. Protect the health of your employees and customers with KPA's COVID-19 Safety Program. KPA’s program includes health assessments, policy templates, handbooks, training, expert consulting services and more.
Trinity Consultants: Trinity assists clients with safe and effective pandemic operations including identification of site-specific hazards and risk assessment for pandemic control measures and development of Pandemic Response Plans that can be effectively implemented.
VelocityEHS: VelocityEHS provides safety information to those who need it most. During the global coronavirus, we prepared resources to help protect and prevent your workers from exposure to the virus. Covid-19 prevention etiquette posters, micro training courses, access to safety data sheets, and work-from-home resources are just a few items you'll find in the VelocityEHS COVID-19 Resource Site.
Leadership in Uncertain Times
Alex Pollock
March 18, 2020
In all of this uncertainty, as we yearn for assurances, what do we know for sure? Well, as history tells us, it's in time like these that true leaders emerge. Typically, they demonstrate compassion, stability, trust, hope and inspiration for the days ahead. They are our lights in a dark place. Studies of the lives of men and women who shaped history, as documented in "Profiles in Leadership" (Alan Axelrod, 2003), revealed some leadership lessons that are valid in this trying time and will be just as applicable in the future.
Timeless Leadership Lessons
- Optimism does not mean fostering delusions. Present all difficulties frankly and fully.
- Face the truth and speak the truth. Honesty is the best policy.
- Build a team of the best available advisors.
- Know when to ask for help.
- Empower others.
- Act decisively. Often a good solution now is better than a great solution later.
- Keep plans flexible. Be open to new data.
- When a problem surfaces, fix it. Don't cast blame.
- Never give up.
- Facing difficult realities does not require pessimism.
- It's never a bad leadership choice to advocate for what's right and just.
— Donald H. McGannon (1920 – 1984), broadcasting industry executive
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Alex Pollock
Alex Pollock has been studying leadership effectiveness for more than 30 years. A former leader in environment, health and safety, and public affairs at The Dow Chemical Co., he learned that we all have leadership roles to play. He enjoys discussing new ideas and sharing practical ways we can all become better leaders.
Return-to-Work Playbooks
Some of the largest companies in the world have shared playbooks and resources for preparing your company for re-opening and operating more safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. NAEM has listed some of these public resources below not as endorsements but as guidance for your review.- Dow Chemical Company: Finding a Way: Return to Workplace Playbook
- Ford: Return to Work Manufacturing Playbook
- General Motors: Returning to the Workplace With Confidence
- GM has also made its COVID-19 safety software offerings publicly available for software developers' use: github.com/generalmotors
- IBM: Return to Workplace Playbook
- Kaiser Permanente: Planning for the next normal at work: Keeping your workforce safe and healthy
- Lear: Safe Work Playbook
- Target: Safe Retail: Considerations for Retail Operations Post COVID-19
- Tesla: Return to Work Playbook
- Toyota: Safe at Work Manufacturing Playbook
Quick Polls
A benefit for NAEM corporate members, Quick Polls allow fast, confidential benchmarking within the NAEM corporate member network. Quick Polls related to the COVID-19 response include:
- Safety Performance
- Returning to Work After Vacation
- Returning to Work
- Driving for Business Travel
- Warm-Weather Face Masks
- Relaxing COVID-19 Preventive Measures
- COVID-19 and Contractor Safety
- Telecommuting Protocols
- Temperature Screening
- Coronavirus and Future Sustainability Goals
- Coronavirus Protocols
- Disinfecting Workplaces
- Testing and Green Cleaning Products
- Coronavirus Travel Restrictions
- Coronavirus Screening
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