EHS & sustainability industry analyst at LNS Research focused on how technology, process, and people factors improve EHS performance and operational excellence.
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2024 New Year Resolutions for Manufacturing to Future-Proof Operations
The workforce shortage has been the burning platform for many manufacturing CEOs. The latest data shows that if every unemployed worker accepted an open role, three million jobs would still remain unfilled. Manufacturing quit rates prove the competition for talent will be a critical factor in sustaining operations. Declining tenure, an aging workforce, and early retirements can be seen as a challenge or an opportunity for the future of industry.
Survey Snippets #5: Three Tips To Successfully Scale Your Transformation Business Case
Building business cases is often the first of many challenges today’s industrial companies have to face as part of their Industrial Transformation (IX) programs. The ideal business case should help companies identify and prioritize the correct problems and provide a clear roadmap for the solution. However, many companies struggle to effectively do this.
Survey Snippets #4: How Mature is Your Industrial Analytics Program, Really?
Recently, I noticed an interesting data point from our Analytics That Matter research survey: 58% of surveyed companies claimed to be implementing or piloting an analytics program, but only 11% are seeing dramatic business impacts. The reason? I believe that while these programs are often led by the right vision, most of them aren’t necessarily supported by the required execution.
The Future of Sustainability and Industrial Work: 7 Predictions for 2022
As 2022 kicks off, most significant industrial organizations are well into their Industrial Transformation (IX) journeys and have been for at least several years. Those that aren’t are scrambling to catch up if they intend to remain viable. Even as IX advances as the strategic framework for competitive differentiation, industrials must deal with two rapidly emerging secular trends: the rise of Sustainability and the challenges posed by the Future of Industrial Work.
Connected Frontline Workforce Applications: Pushing the Frontiers of Industrial Transformation
It’s been nearly three years since LNS Research initiated coverage of the digitally connected industrial worker space with the publication of our seminal research, “The Connected Worker: Mobilize and Empower People to Reduce Risk and Improve Safety”. Since then, we’ve continued to conduct research and develop our point of view on the topic while working closely with a variety of industrial organizations and technology vendors on their connected worker initiatives and solutions.
2024 Research Goals: Breaking Through the Productivity Plateau
As the first half of 2023 is behind us, the LNS Research Team is finalizing our 2024 research agenda. Typical of the beginning of each year, the analyst team produced annual predictions with an assessment of the previous year's predictions. While I would never have predicted a move into research advisory after over 20 years in manufacturing, here I sit after just over a year since taking the significant pivot to becoming an industry analyst.
EHS Technology in 2019: 5 Trends Driving Change and 5 Predictions
By Peter Bussey, for LNS Research Jan 14, 2019 EHS faces continued pressure to evolve as an integral part of the business that creates and delivers value. Compliance, risk, and sustainability initiatives are only a means to an end. EHS leaders have aligned with organizational transformation initiatives to improve operational excellence, business continuity, and ultimately profitable growth.
Why EHS Business Leaders Should Leverage Digital Transformation for Predictive Risk Management
More so than ever, the environment, health, and safety (EHS) business function is expected to contribute to sustainable, profitable growth of the enterprise. This is part of the natural evolution of the goals for EHS management over recent decades. Leading companies have shifted their focus away from mere compliance to proactive risk mitigation, Operational Excellence, and shareholder value. Click here to speak to Peter Bussey.
Blog: 7 Reasons your EHS technology project won’t happen
Digital innovations are fundamentally changing industry business models and operations. This presents Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Operations business leaders with an unprecedented opportunity to leverage technology to improve safety and environmental performance while adding value to the business. There’s just one small sticking point: getting approval and funding. This requires the development and communication of a convincing, compelling business case for the initiative.
De-Regulation Under Trump Will Not Create a Windfall for Manufacturers [MondayMusings]
The #MondayMusings, Digital Transformation blog series provides insight and analysis for executives from the previous week’s briefings, events, and publications @LNSResearch. Click here to see image in full-size Click here to speak to Peter Bussey A central tenet of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign platform was reducing the regulatory burden on business, with the desired effect of facilitating business expansion, job creation, and economic growth.
5 Top Questions from Yesterday's Operationalizing EHS Management Webcast
On Wednesday, October 26, LNS Research hosted the webcast, “Operationalize EHS Management: Bridge the Gap from Strategy to Execution.” This presentation discussed what’s at stake with EHS performance, which EHS opportunities have the greatest impact, and ways to engage business leaders for long-term EHS excellence.
The 3 Essential Capabilities Needed for Operational Risk Management
Operational Risk Management (ORM) centers on Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) risks that can cause accidents or incidents anywhere work takes place, whether it's a manufacturing plant, an off-shore drilling platform, a mine, a marine terminal, and so forth. This post will discuss why and how operational risks need to be managed effectively, the three essential ORM process capabilities, and considerations for implementation.
[Infographic] Operationalize Your EHS Management System in 6 Steps
EHS and operations business leaders face tough new challenges in ensuring processes are safe, reliable, and sustainable. Compliance obligations are becoming more complicated. Increasingly complex business networks and dynamic operating environments expose organizations to new risks. Stakeholder expectations for transparency and accuracy in disclosing risks and performance are more intense than ever. The need to have strong EHS management systems has never been greater.
Blog: What EHS managers need to know about digital transformation
Is Digital Transformation for real? In short, yes, driven by the availability of inexpensive computing power, sensor technology, and pervasive internet connectivity. Digital technologies are accelerating the pace of change in organizations and operations. With change comes risk, and the need for rigorous systems to manage it effectively. The EHS function plays a vital role in operational risk assessment and control, and management of change.
What EHS Managers Need to Know About Digital Transformation
As an Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) manager or professional, you’re well-aware of the critical role EHS plays in Operational Excellence. There is no doubt that your company has one (or more) continuous improvement initiatives aimed towards operational efficiency and effectiveness; perhaps it’s based on a Lean approach or Six Sigma. A strong EHS component is necessary for such initiatives to produce desired results.
Managing EHS Risks in Operations: 3 Sources, and 3 Key Capabilities
Operational risks are defined by their ability to lead to adverse events anywhere in an organization’s sphere of operations. In this context, the scope of Operational Risk Management (ORM) encompasses Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) risks that can cause accidents or incidents anywhere work takes place, whether it's a manufacturing plant, an off-shore drilling platform, a mine, a marine terminal, and so forth.
Harness Big Data & Predictive Analytics to Improve EHS Performance
Driving continuous Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) performance improvement depends on operationalizing EHS management: aligning people, process, and technology capabilities for consistent execution of the management system in daily operations. A key aspect of achieving this is effective performance management. Click here to speak to Peter Outcome-based indicators of safety performance, such as incident and injury rates, have long been the go-to metrics used to measure safety performance.
Consolidation in the EHS Software Market: There’s Always a Bigger Fish
The marketplace for environment, health and safety (EHS) software managed to fly under the radar for a couple of decades. Now that’s all changing as players in the space scramble for market share in a growing market. EHS applications are used mostly in asset-intensive, high-risk industries such as chemical production, oil and gas, utilities, mining, manufacturing, and transportation.
Operationalizing EHS Management: Get Past Performance Plateaus
A common problem faced by Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and operations leaders is getting past performance plateaus. It’s a familiar scenario: after a good run of continuous improvement, results seem to stall and drift sideways, or even decline. When this happens, how can business leaders help take their organizations to new levels of operational performance while coping with tougher resource constraints?
Enablon Sustainable Performance Forum 2016: The Push for Operational Excellence
Similar to the U.S. Postal Service, neither rain nor floods could keep people away from their appointed rounds to attend the Sustainable Performance Forum (SPF) hosted by Enablon on April 21 in Houston. Despite heavy rains and flooding around that time, and tough business conditions in the local Energy sector, the conference had a strong turnout, with over 200 attendees. The Houston SPF is one of a series of annual customer conferences Enablon holds around the world.
How to Drive Towards a Zero Incident EHS Management System
Many companies have the goal of achieving “Zero Incidents” or “Zero Harm” to people and the environment as a result of their operations. This can mean zero injuries, zero property damage, and zero environmental impact depending on how the organization defines it. It can even mean no near- misses and no unsafe behaviors. In this post, we’ll discuss how management systems can be used to drive towards this goal, and a powerful case study.
How to Get a 30-day Employee to a 30-year Performance Level
Today's manufacturing workforce looks radically different compared to 2019. Gone are the 30-year veterans with average tenure down to only three years in 2023. To make matters worse, 50% of new employees leave manufacturing roles within the first 90 days. Traditional approaches to achieving a trained and competent workforce are failing. New generations demand step-change improvements across safety, health, and sustainability performance.
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