EHS Regulatory Compliance and Permitting Support
Overview
Understanding EHS regulations and standards, and defining clear protocols to implement their requirements are key to the functioning of conscientious organisations. At a time when there’s relentless pressure on business leaders to meet ever-more-challenging operational and financial targets, the rapid rise and evolution of EHS legal requirements to encompass newer aspects makes compliance a significant challenge.
This service leverages our expert knowledge of these regulations (and the upcoming policies/ regulations), to design a robust ESG compliance strategy for you – both at the organisational and facility level. We help you understand and assess these protocols, map your current practices against the specific requirements of your industry, and develop a clear and actionable way forward.
The ESGPace difference: What we believe in
- Values of honesty, dignity and grace
- Our resolve to ensure favourable outcomes for you
- On-ground expertise, spanning over 2 decades
- Team of diverse, interdisciplinary experts
- Tailored solutions for your organisational needs
- Data-driven & tech-enabled solutions
- Economic advantage of competitive pricing
EHS Regulatory Compliance and Permitting Support: Our offerings
EHS regulation identification
Understand the current EHS regulations as they apply to your organisation, know more about any upcoming legislation, and find out how any regulatory amendments will impact the way your facilities operate. With the right support from our team of experts, you can rest assured that you stay ahead of them all.
We provide not just traditional EHS legal registers but also digitally enabled platforms for compliance tracking and management across multiple facilities in different jurisdictions.
Site- and operation-specific legal registers and compliance calendars
Develop updated EHS legal registers that contain information not just on national and state regulations but also on conditions contained in the facility’s permits and licences. Our regulatory compliance services support you in running a compliance management program that allows for optimal results, minimising non-value added effort, so your EHS team can focus on what truly matters.
Regulatory update tracking and analysis
Ensure proactive tracking of all regulatory updates and National Green Tribunal (NGT) rulings that may impact your industry and organisation. We help you analyse these changes to assess their implications on your business, so you can chart out a suitable plan of action.
Each year, we also issue reports on trends discernible from the government’s policies, regulations, and enforcement actions, to keep you informed as you plan for the future.
Support for EHS permits and licences
Ensure you have all the environmental, health and safety permits, licences, and authorisations as mandated under the environmental and safety laws. With our permit management support, we not only ensure you stay informed about the licences you need but also help you follow the necessary steps to obtain these permits and keep them current.
Statutory returns and submission support
Benefit from the technical support provided by our teams to manage the statutory returns and statements you need to file annually. In an era of stricter scrutiny, and data-based evidence, we allow you to prepare robust returns that showcase your EHS performance appropriately.
2nd and 3rd party compliance assessments
Our auditing services provide you not just a list of problems, but also data-driven analysis and insights into barriers and enablers for improved performance. Our collaborative, risk-focused style of audits has been found useful by clients in deepening the understanding of their EHS team members.
Corrective and preventive action plans
Uphold and reinforce a culture of continual improvement across your organisation by working proactively to plug gaps in your EHS management systems and programs in a time-bound manner, and prevent recurrence by instituting appropriate preventive actions.
Our Corrective and Preventive Action Plans are built on the premise of promoting lateral deployment of learnings across the organisation to reduce recurrence and where possible identify and resolve contributory factors before they lead to systems/ compliance failures.
Tailored regulatory requirement training
Make sure all leaders, managers, decision makers and other relevant stakeholders are kept aware of the regulatory compliance requirements you are mandated to follow. Our customised training programs guide them on industry-specific and facility-specific competencies they need to develop in order to keep you organisationally compliant.
Issue-specific troubleshooting
Take corrective action based on specific incidents and issues that may have arisen. Our EHS specialists enable you to:
- assess the issue and identify root causes;
- identify various alternatives for resolving the issue;
- choose the best available techniques not entailing excessive costs (BATNEEC); and
- Implement effective and sustainable remedial measures in a time-bound fashion.
- Effectively communicate long- and short-term changes, if any, to the relevant team members and other stakeholders.
Supply chain audits
We also run effective third party audits for vendors and suppliers based on regulatory requirements and relevant supply chain performance standards such as those of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) for electrical and electronics industry; Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative, aka PSCI (for pharmaceutical industry); and the Responsible Care initiative (for chemicals sector). Our approach to audits blends on-field capacity building of suppliers, with a clear-eyed and objective assessment of current status and associated risks to the clients.
Supplier training and workshops
Actively support your suppliers and partners in upgrading their ESG systems and processes, so they can uphold the same high standards of EHS and social responsibility as your organisation, thus reducing your exposure to risk. We conduct interactive, hands-on trainings that use accelerated learning techniques to allow your suppliers to understand and effectively retain information and ideas.
Data analysis dashboards
Analyse and visualise EHS data across multiple sites and facilities within your organisation. Our comprehensive dashboards give you a detailed view of your current EHS standards, policies and procedures, helping you identify issues, identify trends, compare performance data across geographies and time, to correctly predict potential failures and incidents, take preventive action and assure continued compliance.
Regulatory notice and direction management
Respond to notices or directions from enforcing authorities in the most appropriate way, with technical support from our team. We advise you on managing your data, responding accurately, reducing exposure to legal liabilities, and navigating these investigations while ensuring appropriate and ethical business conduct.