Despite the ready availability of a wide range of technology-based tools, many environmental, health and safety managers are still buried in stacks of paper. Computer applications have flooded the marketplace with mechanisms to manage a diverse set of information management issues, yet personnel at every rung of the EH&S management ladder continue to spend too much time and effort manually conducting marginal work.
Marginal work — characterized by routine, repetition and necessity — can include functions such as comparing, calculating, cross-referencing, storing and reporting information. Focusing on these routine, yet necessary, marginal tasks yields marginal returns and reduces the quality and quantity of those results that have direct impact on your mission to enhance the safety and health of the workforce.