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THE ROLE OF EHS IN ACHIEVING NET ZERO
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* Chris Michie
* September 28, 2022
Organizations that are working to cut carbon emissions can look to their EHS
Department for help.
The United Nations has put it best: “The science shows clearly,” the UN reports,
“that in order to avert the worst impacts of climate change and preserve the
livable planet, global temperature increase needs to be limited to 1.5°C above
pre-industrial levels.” To get there, greenhouse gas emissions from human
activities—mainly, carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of fossil fuels—must be
reduced quickly and drastically, and slashed to “net zero” by 2050.
Net zero, the UN explains, is the point where emissions are either entirely
eliminated or balanced through re-absorption from the atmosphere. “Transitioning
to a net-zero-world,” it adds, “is one of the greatest challenges society has
faced”, but it’s also eminently achievable if governments, companies, and
organizations of all kinds commit to emissions reductions and take action now.
The question then, for those who are reading this, is what taking action should
look like. If you’re with a company that’s made a net-zero pledge, how should
you plan to achieve your goals?
The good news is that many organizations already have resources in place to
help them get to net-zero. They’re working in their environmental, health and
safety (EHS) department.
THE EHS-ESG CONNECTION
When it comes to the fight against climate change, consumers, investors, and
business partners increasingly all want to see the same thing: clear, objective
and quantifiable environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics and
reporting that shows you’re making progress toward better sustainability.
For many companies, disclosures and reporting are already required by
environmental, occupational health, and employee safety regulations. The good
news is, EHS professionals—the people responsible for coaching, advising, and
informing senior leadership on how to run effective programs that ensure an
organization is compliant in these areas—can leverage the same tools and metrics
they’re already familiar with to track and report on ESG initiatives as well.
Using EHS software, for example, they can capture and analyze data related to
environmental performance and sustainability by connecting systems and sites
across the organization. They can identify those aspects of the business that
have the biggest environmental impacts, and they can track data on mitigation
efforts to ensure they’re effective and running efficiently. Newer enhancements
also allow organizations to create models and simulate the impact of mitigation
efforts, ensuring resources are applied to the most effective controls,
maximizing performance and ROI. And to easily create weekly or quarterly
progress reports, both for internal purposes and for sharing with stakeholders:
They can build their company’s CO2-reduction targets into the program so
analyses can be conducted automatically.
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Here’s a look at other key metrics that every EHS professional should keep in
mind if they’re called on to start reporting for ESG.
ENVIRONMENTAL METRICS
Air emissions, waste production and disposal, water effluents, chemical
releases—they’re all part and parcel to the “E” of EHS, but they’re also
critical to ESG, and to the overall sustainability picture. How an organization
interacts with the environment——is the primary focus of climate-related ESG
reporting criteria. While the metrics involved in this area vary, here are a few
common examples.
* Carbon emissions: tracking total emissions (Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3) and
emission-reduction goals
* Energy consumption: energy usage; energy-efficiency improvements
* Water usage: amount of water used; water conserved through efficiency gains
* Waste and pollution: amount of hazardous waste generated; quantity of toxic
chemicals released; number of notices of violations; number of inspections;
amount or percent of materials recycled; amount or percent of materials
discarded; permit parameters
* Waste reduction initiatives across the organization and in the supply chain
HEALTH AND SAFETY METRICS
While health and safety do not directly impact the environmental factors
associated with climate change and reaching net-zero target, they do play a
role, and signal how sustainable a company is operating. Sustainability doesn’t
only apply to limiting the effects on climate but includes how enterprises
reduce the effect of their operations on their communities and the workforce.
Identifying and mitigating risks associated with company processes, tasks,
activities and outputs, to reduce the risk of harm to employees is a critical
factor in meeting the requirements under the “social” pillar of ESG.
While metrics and programs within the health & safety sphere will differ
depending on the organization, we offer a few of the more common ones tracked by
organizations, including:
* Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR)Lost workday incidence rate
* Days away from work or Days of restricted work (DART rate)
* Number and amount of regulatory citations and fines
* Chemical exposures
* Control of hazardous substances (per Control of Substances Hazardous to
Health—COSHH—regulations): identifying hazards, assessing risks, and managing
actions to control exposures to hazardous substances from a single location,
reducing the chances of legal noncompliance and lowering the risk of
hazardous events.
* Air quality, ventilation, filters: including fuming and off-gassing
procedures from facilities like refineries, crematoriums, manufacturing
plants, and large-scale bakeries, for example.
* Chemical/substance run-off
A TIME FOR CHANGE
The goal for the EHS professionals, in the context of getting their organization
to net zero, is to look at the metrics for environment, health, and safety in
the same light as that for ESG. Because the pillars of each overlap and in some
of their details are exactly the same, moving from one to the other should come
relatively easily.
For many organizations, reducing emissions isn’t easy at all. To do so on the
accelerated timeline the UN has made clear is necessary, processes may need to
be changed, new people may need to be hired, new suppliers may have to be
brought in, and new equipment will likely need to be purchased. To achieve net
zero, at least some organizations will have to rethink and redefine their
mission.
Those companies that turn to EHS to help guide them through the difficult work
ahead? While they too should be ready for change, they should also feel
confident they’re positioned for success.
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CHRIS MICHIE
Chris Michie is a Product Marketing Manager with Cority and specializes in
Environmental and Sustainability solutions. Chris has over 13 years of
Environmental and Sustainability experience and holds bachelor’s degrees in
Marketing and Graphic Design from the University of Maryland. Prior to his role
at Cority, Chris was the Director of Sustainability for a large agricultural
company and worked in Public and Environmental Health with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and in the U.S. Army respectively.
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