It’s official: customers prefer sustainable companies.

Environment-friendly office practices offer a host of benefits. They help reduce the environment footprint of your office and create a healthier and more productive workplace. Besides, by incorporating such practices, you can also see a positive impact on the financial bottom line of your company over a period of time.

Among the few silver lining to the current coronavirus pandemic: our interaction with the planet. Animals around the world have cities all to themselves and they’re loving it. Humans are staying home and leaving the streets untouched.

Sustainability pays off for businesses, but that doesn’t mean it comes without any challenges.

Quality, Health, Safety, Environment (QHSE) software is a management system that incorporates common elements of ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 1401 standards. It’s often used in the oil and gas industries, but the best QHSE software is flexibly structured to adapt to any industry.

In the day and age of increasing ecological and safety awareness, corporate sustainability has become a major buzzword.

Just one gallon of oil can taint a million gallons of water, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There are inherent risks in oil exploration, extraction, transport, and storage; spills can have serious adverse and potentially long-term effects on the environment, drinking water, human and wildlife populations. Prevention is key, and preparation is part of that.

Did you know that NAEM’s EHS & Sustainability Management Forum is almost here?

A lot of companies are starting to embrace the push for sustainability. Organizations often list “environmental stewardship” or something similar as a core value. This doesn’t appear to be a phase that we as a society are going through. Respect for the environment is quickly becoming a standard trait that is expected of all successful businesses - big and small.

As of January 3, 2018, the EPA employed 14,162 workers. That number is down from about 15,000 from just two years prior. If all employees who are eligible for retirement choose to do so by the year 2021, the EPA workforce should shrink by nearly half.