COVID-19 EHS&S Resources
Benchmark your EHS management best practices during the new normal and learn new tools for continuous improvement-
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.
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.
Extending The Digital EHS&S Platform for Covid-19 Response & Risk Mitigation – Practical Perspectives
The Gensuite Covid-19/Pandemic Module developed rapidly in March 2020 by leveraging the Gensuite incident management module, has now been deployed by over 60 subscribers enabling these organizations to respond, record, and manage possible or confirmed Covid-19 events in the workplace, with the capability to manage status, testing, contact tracing, off-work/quarantine periods and return to work target dates. Launched as a standard configuration upgrade included with the Gensuite service subscription, companies that have deployed the module have already tracked over 4,000 events, providing risk mitigation benefits to the workforce and immediate value to the enterprise. With the ability to track and report data in compliance with HIPPA and GDPR requirements, the module further enables health and safety professionals to use data visualizations to understand Covid-19 risks in their facilities. A number of Gensuite subscribers who have implemented the module have transitioned manual tracking through spreadsheets to the Gensuite solution, with impactful results.
Rob Somers, Director of EHS, Perrigo Company, a leading subscriber architect of the new module shared with other Gensuite subscribers in a workgroup call that, “When employees call off work, our HR Partners have a way to track symptoms, testing dates, and return-to-work dates. As their situation changes, our team can quickly update the number of days in quarantine, as well as criteria for returning to work in one single place. They can then pull reports to track data and share with leadership to make informed decisions for health and safety.”
In other successful and timely extensions of the Gensuite EHS&S platform, the new PPE Manager enables setup and tracking of inventory of Covid-19 critical PPE, with reporting insights for individual sites and across the enterprise; the integrated Survey solution enables open-access, QR-code enabled, contactless employee and visitor screening questionnaires to minimize Covid-19 risk exposures in workplaces; the new Ergo Evaluator enables safety leaders to provide remote workers with self-service ergonomics evaluation tools; and U Connect, a new peer-to-peer, in-app video collaboration tool will soon offer users in the field the option to connect directly with remote experts for enhanced audits, inspections, incident investigations, thus eliminating Covid-19 risks from travel. The strategic pivot in new functionality driven by subscribers of the Gensuite, recognizes that our pandemic-constrained world requires fundamental adjustments that can be well-served by the digital EHS&S platform.
Working Together to Chart the Path Forward
The Covid-19 Executive Collaboration LinkedIn Workgroup of EHS&S leaders and professionals facilitated by Gensuite has offered another valuable dimension for idea and experience sharing. The workgroup which met first in late March 2020, has now welcomed speakers from all industries and experts in topics from EHS&S to biosafety, with over 1,200 attendees over the past two months contributing to the dialogue. The workgroup has disseminated many helpful best practices and workplace solutions for managing and mitigating the pandemic and reopening business operations; is scheduled to meet weekly on Fridays through end of June (currently); and is open for sign-up on LinkedIn. Gensuite is committed to sharing the solutions developed on the platform to help the EHS&S community successfully manage the workplace risks and impacts of the Covid-19 (and any future) pandemic in the workplace. We welcome you to access our Covid-19 resources to help your efforts and to contact us directly.
About the Author
Under Mukund’s leadership, Benchmark Gensuite (Formerly Gensuite) has built a leading digital EHS and ESG management platform, and expanded its solutions to help organizations meet global reporting standards and requirements related to climate and sustainability.
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