One of today’s buzz phrases is “global enterprise.†While the phrase describes companies with international operations, it also often refers to U.S. companies with no foreign facilities that maintain multiple locations around the country. Whichever description fits your situation, if your company operates in more than one geographic location, you should be concerned with running your environmental health and safety (EHS) operations from a “global†perspective.
A critical issue in global EHS is simply managing the enterprise risk of your hazardous chemical inventories. This means keeping all your people safe from potentially dangerous substances, no matter where they work.