“Ten years ago, you could ask nearly anyone if they had a management system and they would point to a set of binders on a shelf in their office,” said Trey Shaffer, senior partner at Environmental Resources Management.”

In this GreenBiz Eco-Leadership article by Anna Clark on June 30, 2015, it is clear that there is still a lot of education taking place about regulatory compliance among industrial, commercial, institutional and government facilities. Many companies today, especially smaller ones, are facing an increasing need to better manage their regulatory compliance obligations.

It’s the sole reason why we developed our compliance management system – to help companies – especially smaller businesses – mitigate the risk of penalties and fines from ever-expanding government regulations for the environment, health, safety, and security.

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“Regulatory compliance can be a dry topic – that is, until an oil spill spurs a state of emergency, as it did in Santa Barbara County in May. When a ruptured 24-inch pipeline spilled some 105,000 gallons of crude, blackening the pristine waters of the Refugio State Beach and inciting a class-action lawsuit, the economic consequences of environmental catastrophes came to the fore once again.

The leak that caused the oil slick was from corroded infrastructure owned by Plains All American Pipeline, which has incurred 175 federal safety and maintenance violations since 2006 and property damages totaling at least $23 million to date. Plains is hardly alone. Following its 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill in Michigan, Enbridge must spend at least $62 million to resolve natural resource damages caused by failures in pipeline integrity as well as the inadequate facility response and training of personnel.

The high price of environmental consequences of compliance and safety failures highlight the value of improving environmental, health and safety (EHS) performance. If mitigating risk in an era of increasing complexity is a challenge, then exploring new technologies to achieve operational excellence is the next frontier.” –more–

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To sum it up, this article demonstrates the consequences felt by several companies who ignored regulatory compliance. No matter what size the company, the risk is still eminent.

ProComplianceWare (PCW) is ideal for any company or facility that is regulated by Federal and state agencies – from marinas to airports, or automobile dealerships to chemical distributors and scrap yards to private schools.

The regulatory compliance software tracks compliance requirements and manages documents in one secure online location, improving record keeping and adherence to EPA, Federal or state regulated permits. PCW is one of these new technologies designed to “achieve operational excellence.”

The PCW system internally tracks compliance with tasks delegated to staff or consultants. Users can review stored documents by accessing the “View Completed Documents” function in each module, which displays whether assigned tasks are being performed and who is performing them.

The most cost-effective EHSS system of its kind, PCW:

• Organizes compliance certification requirements.
• Slashes the risk of penalties and fines.
• Can be easily set up by in-house staff, compliance consultants, engineers, or ProEnvironmentWare, Inc.’s team.
• Provides links to all needed compliance assessment templates and report forms.
• Electronically tracks compliance deadlines for all required inspection reports, training and sampling.
• Sends an email to assigned staff when compliance audit deadlines approach.
• Enables uploading compliance documents for archival storage.
• Records the date and user making any change or uploading a document.
• Allows access to compliance reports.
• Operates in an encrypted, secure (SSL) environment.
• Provides different levels of administrator and staff access.

Peace of mind for your company is priced at only $250 per month, and PCW can be easily set up by in-house staff, compliance consultants, environmental engineers, or ProEnvironmentWare’s, team.

For more information or for a brief demo of ProComplianceWare, please email sales@ProComplianceWare.com or fill out this form on our website.