Increasing fines for unsafe practices. Publicity about improper training and instructions. Potentially dangerous business practices. How do you make sure this doesn't happen to your company?

You are looking for accuracy, visibility, and completeness around information on accidents and injuries, so you can understand the causes and focus on appropriate remedies. Once identified, those resolutions need to be integrated into the day-to-day operations of your company – bringing incident numbers and costs down.

With software and services from SAP, you can better comply with occupational health, industrial hygiene and safety, incident management, and hazardous substance management regulations. SAP's health and safety capabilities can help you properly document and comply with corporate policies and people, health, and safety regulations. Furthermore, the following work processes that support those compliance efforts can be fully integrated with your everyday business activities:

• Occupational health – Track employee healthcare treatments and examinations, and monitor the results.
• Industrial hygiene and safety – Pinpoint and minimize risks to employees' health to comply with safety laws and regulations.
• Incident management – Enable immediate triggering of safety measures, incident documentation and reporting, and recording of HR data.

SAP Solutions and Services for People, Health, and Safety

The SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management application provides the tools you need to manage all of today's sophisticated health and safety processes, in all areas of your company and for all your enterprise resource planning (ERP) activities.

It can be easily adapted to meet your organization's specific needs – as well as the requirements of various laws and regulations worldwide. What's more, it can be integrated with non-SAP and SAP solutions.

With SAP, you can improve the management of health and safety business processes by:

• Improving employee safety by tracking incidents and analyzing root causes.
• Identifying, justifying, and tracking focused corrective actions
• Ensuring efficient compliance by tracking all events, associated materials, and corrective actions and producing relevant national and international reports forms and electronic submissions
• Improving operating efficiencies by integrating incident tracking, safety processes, medical surveillance, and worker exposure into the same computer-based system

People interested in sustainability often find additional value in the following areas:

• Ensure asset safety and compliance to achieve greater operational flexibility and meet quality requirements