HSE (Health, Safety and Environment)

Adopting HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) Management Using Innovative and
Proactive Strategies to Support Employee Health and Safety, and Sustainability

The Fundamental Responsibilty of Each Company and Employee is to Minimize the

Environmental Impact Where we Operate and Focus on HSE and Well-being in the
Workplace
What is HSE?
HSE stands for Health, Safety, and Environment. HSE encompasses a range of
practices, policies, and regulations to minimize hazards, prevent accidents and
injuries, and promote sustainable practices. HSE is vital for safeguarding the health
and safety of individuals, protecting the environment, and maintaining sustainable
operations across different sectors.

The need for HSE management arose from the dangerous working conditions of
earlier eras, particularly in the manufacturing industry, where employees lacked
adequate protection from the machinery and equipment they worked with. This led to
a high rate of accidents resulting in injuries and even death.

Over time, workers demanded better safety measures, prompting governments to

introduce legislation requiring employers to ensure workplace health and safety, pay
for medical insurance, and provide compensation for work-related injuries, illness,
and death. The primary goal of HSE management is to create a culture of safety by
continuously assessing risks, implementing controls, and improving HSE
performance to prevent harm to people and the environment.

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Why is HSE needed?

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), over 2.3 million workers die
every year due to occupational accidents or work-related diseases. The ILO
estimates that preventing illnesses and accidents caused by work should be a top
priority for everyone at work, given that the annual cost to the global economy from
these incidents alone is $3 trillion

Providing Health, safety and environment training or information helps to:

• Ensure workers are not injured or affected by the work they do

• Implement a positive health & safety culture that fosters health, safety and wellness
• Manage workplace health and safety in a better way
• Ensures well-being through advanced technology and professional development

How to Address Enterprise Safety Challenges

Which are the Best Practices for HSE?

• Health, safety and environment:

Are considered a top priority due to their significance in safeguarding human
lives and properties, especially in high-risk industrial sectors. These industries
are afflicted by workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities because of unsafe
work environments. It is important to establish and execute an effective
workplace health and safety management system to avoid the risks of
irreversible accidents.
• Safety culture:
The safety culture of an organization refers to the set of organizational practices
relating specifically to the values and beliefs concerning HSE safety shaped by
employees working together in social relationships and organizational
structures in the workplace. The significant impact of strong HSE safety culture
is improved safety performance, reduced incidents, conducted a successful
near-miss investigation and incident reporting in an organization.
• Safety performance measurement:
The primary aim of measuring safety performance in a work environment is an
attempt to mitigate unsafe behaviors and conditions that can lead to accidents.
Usually, performance measurements can either be reactive or active
monitoring. Reactive monitoring defines identifying and reporting incidents and
learning from mistakes while active monitoring provides feedback on
performance before an incident occurs.
A safety performance indicator refers to measuring the changes over time at
the level of safety as the result of actions taken by providing information on
organizational performance, motivating people to work on HSE safety, and
increasing the organizational potential for HSE safety. There are two safety
performance indicators, leading and lagging indicators. In leading indicators,
the response is proactive in nature with the intent of making changes in the
safety process to avoid injuries, while in the lagging indicators, the response is
reactive because injuries have already occurred and the response is initiated to
try to prevent the occurrence of further injuries.
• Safety management by recognizing the hazard:
The initial step to prevent accidents is the identification of hazards. The HSE
safety performance improvement requires the implementation of proactive
worker hazard identification and prevention programs. The risk associated with
hazardous conditions or situations in a work environment can only be analyzed
for accident prevention if the related hazards can be properly recognized or
identified. To proactively identify hazardous situations and conditions, details
from HSE safety incident data can be analyzed to identify predictor variables of
future incidents in manufacturing environments.
• Safety data collection, analysis, and sharing:
Safety data collection, analysis, and sharing will assist the industry to find out
the root causes of an event, explore existing and potential hazards, and
improve existing HSE safety programs. In the United States, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigates the workplace to ensure
compliance with minimum safety standards. If OSHA compliance agents detect
any infringement on a site, they may issue a penalty or a citation. In case of any
serious accident or incident at the workplace, OSHA must be notified to inspect
the accident.
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Why ComplianceQuest for HSE?

Workplace health and safety will reduce the avoidable illness and injury cost, improve
your HSE culture, and enhance health and safety-related decision making for an
efficient and effective operation. Human resource is a very essential asset of every
workplace that needs to be safeguarded by implementing a robust health & safety
program.

ComplianceQuest’s Health & Safety management solution enables seamless

management of your organization’s complete H&S program through a range of
intuitively integrated tools and applications and by collecting, collating and trending
health and safety data related to any risk to the health and wellbeing of staff, clients,
contractors or the community.

Outstanding execution and solution coverage

We implemented this software where I work and have been overall happy with the
outcome. After taking a day or two workings to learn the software, you’ll never want
to go back to your old ways! There’s also a huge library of training videos provided
with the subscription, and an easy to use ticket portal. Moving to CQ HSE was worth
the effort and will pay for itself within the year, but what really matters is that we have
a fully functional HSE software that can grow and evolve with the business. The
mobile features and real-time data capture provides great accessibility to the HSE
program for all levels of staff.

Andre Perrault,
Manager, Health Safety & Environment

CQ Approaches for HSE

ComplianceQuest’s Health, safety and environment management solution boosts
your HSE Safety culture and enhances performance through accessible reporting
and effective management, communication and analysis of all health and safety
information.

Safety Event Reporting

An organization can promote its safety culture by empowering workers to

report injuries, accidents, or near misses that could affect safety on the
worksite.
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CAPA

Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) investigates and addresses

unwanted events, hazards and facilitates change management by
assigning to the right people, monitoring the workflow and providing full
visibility as the process moves through verification of effectiveness.
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Worksite Inspections

An organization should define the schedule, checklists, and assess the

type and level of safety activity for all or specific locations by keeping
inspections seamless, consistent, timely and allowing managers to assign
actions to unwanted findings.
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Safety Observations

Organizations should engage their employees in the safety culture and

report positive or negative observations. Safety managers can use the
trending data or assign investigations and actions depending on what is
required.
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Stakeholder Management

ComplianceQuest’s Health, Safety and Environment management

solution not only allows an organization to manage all their stakeholders
but also ensures that their participation and involvement in identifying H&S
risks and the root cause for any incident are a part of the H&S solution.
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 Risk Management

Through ComplianceQuest’s risk management module , an organization can:

▪ Maintain a consolidated document related to all hazards & risks.

▪ Categorize risks through risk rating methodology.
▪ Classify risks based on the function, process or activity.
▪ Follow the hierarchy of controls while determining control measures.
▪ Assign risk owners and frequency of review.
▪ Alter the risk level based on the effectiveness of the control measure.

Enhance your safety culture and HSE (Health,

Safety, and Environment) performance by effectively
managing, communicating, and analyzing all health
and safety information with the CQ HSE
Management solution
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Frequently Asked Questions

• What are the objectives of HSE?

There are two objectives HSE is generally responsible for:

o prevention of all incidents and accidents that can result from peculiar operating
conditions
o reduction of harmful effects that may result from normal operating conditions

As an example, dealing with fire, explosions, and harmful substances in the work
environment is a type of the first objective while reducing a company’s carbon
footprint and its impact on the environment is a type of the second objective. In both
objectives, incorporating regulatory requirements inside a company’s written policies
plays an essential role in developing measures that serve the company’s needs while
conforming to state and federal regulations.

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