A mid-size manufacturer with 15 production facilities may be managing RCRA small or large quantity generator status at each site, Title V or minor source air permits at process-intensive facilities, NPDES industrial stormwater general permits and associated SWPPP inspection records, EPCRA Tier II reporting for chemical storage, TRI reporting at facilities above threshold quantities, OSHA 300 logs at every establishment, and an enterprise-level GHG inventory that now needs to satisfy CSRD or SEC climate disclosure requirements. Each of these programs generates data and that data needs to be current, validated, and defensible before any regulatory agency or auditor asks for it.
The risk of managing this fragmentation through spreadsheets and disconnected point solutions is well understood. What is less well understood is the cost of the workarounds: staff time building manual reports, duplicated data entry across systems, version control failures during regulatory inspections, and the delay between a compliance event and its documentation.
