Organizations are making a shift to create a future where environment, health, and safety (EHS) professions are prioritized. They stand to uphold environment, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards.Public opinion is increasingly interested in environmental and social issues, and businesses have taken interest in ESG as well. Smaller changes are going to be the … [Read more...] about 5 Ways EHS Professionals Can Support ESG Initiatives
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Towards a Circular Economy
The circular economy is emerging as a new way for organizations to approach sustainability and environmental protection. In contrast to production models focused on receiving, making, and discarding, circularity emphasizes reusing or curtailing raw materials like energy and water. The International Organization for Standardization is developing circularity-specific standards … [Read more...] about Towards a Circular Economy
A Pragmatic Approach to Sustainability
For many companies, sustainability can still seem like an add-on instead of a core business priority. Although sustainability requires significant changes in processes, strategies, technologies, and culture, companies can still adopt a more pragmatic model of sustainability based on data. Practical sustainability is also a strategic differentiator today. This article covers … [Read more...] about A Pragmatic Approach to Sustainability
External Materiality and ESG: What You Should Be Looking For
As a business leader thinking about operational risk, do you consider internal risks first? For example, when considering operational risk, are regulatory compliance, talent retention or catastrophic asset failures resulting in production shutdowns top of mind? When you consider external risks, do you land on those that are most obvious, such as shifts in regulatory burdens, … [Read more...] about External Materiality and ESG: What You Should Be Looking For
ISO Standard on Sharing Economy
The sharing economy creates a more sustainable world. In November 2021, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published ISO 42500:2021, an international standard on Sharing economy – General principles. This standard is intended to be used by all types and size of the organizations including commercial enterprises, government agencies, not-for-profit … [Read more...] about ISO Standard on Sharing Economy
Instilling lifecycle costs into modular product development for improved remanufacturing-product service system enterprise
HighlightsPairwise assessment of modules enables an efficient modular product development.Modular product design enhances PSS-Remanufacturing business initiative.Integrating lifecycle costs into product development improves PSS-Remanufacturing.Analytic-based guidance enhances decision making about product architecture.Multi-objective analysis enhances decision making in product … [Read more...] about Instilling lifecycle costs into modular product development for improved remanufacturing-product service system enterprise
How ESG is changing talent needs
As more companies take note of the ESG trend, I’ve been fielding client questions about how ESG is changing talent needsIn my view, ESG is having an impact in three key ways: It’s changing how we talk about the role of business in social and environmental issues, it’s catalyzing big new investments and it’s creating a demand for talent that the market is not yet ready to … [Read more...] about How ESG is changing talent needs