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.
Key Policies, Practices and Preparations for Employee Re-Entry
To ensure employees already on-site and those re-entering are protected, there are many decisions and execution plans to put in place about the employee working environment, reorganizing the physical layout of facilities and offices, and monitoring complex regulatory mandates.
To make this happen, EHS leaders are working their teams and collaborating with many other business areas to ensure a wide range of systems are in place. “COVID-19 has elevated the profile, need and value proposition of EHS and risk management” says Mike Miller, Vice President, Risk, EHS & Sustainability at Advance Auto Parts Inc. “Now EHS is key for the operation and survival of the business.”
Based on benchmark research and conversations with members, the following checklist represents the key issues that NAEM members felt belonged on any EHS leader’s re-entry agenda.
- Perform a critical staffing analysis to determine essential and non-essential staff
- Assess risk tolerance for reintegrating employees and customers
- Monitor local, state, national, and international mandates for social distancing and PPE
- Develop employee screening policies and procedures
- Establish company-wide minimum requirements for social distancing, PPE and physical barrier requirements for specific distancing conditions
- Create cleaning or sanitizing practices of shared and/or high traffic spaces
- Design layout and markup with diagrams to visualize appropriate social distancing in shared spaces
- Restroom and locker room policies to limit contact
- Consider upgrades to internal facility HVAC and other systems to limit the spread of the contagion
- Design and post easy-to-understand flow maps to guide employee movement
EHS leaders are utilizing their knowledge and competencies to ensure safe and healthy workplaces and add value to their respective organizations.
We invite you to join this conversation and hear Mike speak more about Advanced Auto Parts’ response to COVID-19 at NAEM’s first virtual conferencenext Thursday, May 21.
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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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