Create Your Own Apps on our Sustainability and EHS Compliance Software Platform
We engineered Locus Platform to empower users to conceive and create their own apps on our EHS Compliance Software Platform.
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AI and EHS Compliance Software: A New Era of Automation and Efficiency
Find out why AI EHS compliance software only works properly in a technical environment architected for artificial intelligence models.
Make it your own: the coolest aspect of Locus EHS compliance software
Locus enables power users to tweak the software to make it their own without writing a line of code or talking to a single person.
How to Select the EHS Management Software
Selecting the best EHS management software requires a strategic approach that balances functionality, integration, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. This article outlines the strategy for you.
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EHS Compliance Management Software
Learn how EHS compliance management software organizes permit requirements, calendars, tasks and workflow.
Locus EHS Platform
Looking for one powerful place to manage everything? Locus’ EHS platform is the single source of truth for analytical and compliance data.
Environmental Health and Safety Software (EHS)
Get a quick introduction to the basics of environmental health and safety software and how it mitigates risk for organizations.
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APTIM chooses Locus EHS software to transform a $2.4 million/year waste disposal program for a large national retailer.
APTIM is a top ten environmental management firm tackling sustainability and resilience challenges for energy, waste, water, and other resources. The company provides integrated services and solutions to government agencies, commercial, industrial, and energy customers with complex and ambitious environmental objectives. By pairing its consultants with industry-leading technologies, APTIM delivers customized, cutting-edge solutions to each of its clients. Case in point: a national retail chain experienced recurring challenges with its waste program and engaged APTIM to identify and resolve the root causes.
Challenge
The environmental, health, and safety (EHS) department for a large, national retail chain had been self-managing the logistics, tracking, and reporting related to waste disposal for 850 stores in the US. The in-house team managed the relationships with waste haulers, scheduled and verified pickups, and responded to unforeseen waste overages at different stores. The retailer’s processes could not scale to the quantity of locations and variables, nor did their system provide reliable insights to respond to issues or optimize operations.
- Dispersed stakeholders and disconnected data sources: The retailer’s waste program spans 850 locations and involves input from store managers, waste haulers, TSDF vendors, and EHS staff at the home office. There was no central database to manage the program or to store the quantitative and qualitative information collected…
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“Locus went above and beyond our expectations. Not only does Locus software do exactly what we asked, it has enabled us to deliver value to our client in ways we hadn’t expected.”
GPC streamlines Clean Air Act Title V record keeping using Locus Platform
Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), a leading U.S. manufacturer of corn-based products, needed a smarter, more efficient tool to capture, track, notify, and report daily Clean Air Act Title V compliance parameters for numerous emission sources and points at their various production facilities.
GPC was using SharePoint to enter over 20 daily logs at two facilities and had to address several questions per log and per shift, throughout a two-shift day. Their system had no reporting or notifications, and there was no consistency between the forms in the system. The EHS manager would spend weeks searching through information to obtain the data needed for GPC’s annual Title V certification report and other reporting needs.
Solution
In order to simplify and standardize data collection and reporting, GPC selected Locus’ configurable Platform software solution. Locus Platform was selected based on its ability to be quickly configured to match existing business processes across operating facilities and easily implement the changes in permit recordkeeping requirements over time.
A dedicated project team at Locus and GPC identified improvements that could be made in Locus Platform from GPC’s existing internal “home-built” system that was not designed to meet the needs of demanding, ever-changing environmental compliance reporting. The collaborative team developed a comprehensive set of requirements that helped fast-track the project to a timely deployment that met or exceeded the GPC user community’s expectations.
Within six months, the new system was in daily use, and adoption by the remaining facility locations followed soon after.
Results
GPC was able to create a uniform business process across its Midwest facilities by using Locus Platform’s configurable data entry screens and flexible reporting dashboards. The focused reporting capabilities of the software made it easy for GPC to generate consistent, easy-to-read reports, so their EHS manager could now more quickly and reliably report compliance data.
The Locus Platform allowed iterative, streamlined configuration of data entry forms with built-in validation to match GPC’s specific business needs and nomenclature. By tailoring the forms and reports to the business, the GPC user community (comprised of users with very different needs and job responsibilities) found it easy to adopt the software and were able to provide actionable feedback during the configuration process.
The flexibility and ease of configuration, including standardized rules and validations, allowed GPC to streamline a previously cumbersome and error-prone process and gain user acceptance in record time.
Locus and GPC presented the following at the NAEM 2017 EHS&S and Sustainability Software Conference:
Demonstrating Reliable Compliance Data Management and Reporting for Title V Permit Using Locus Technologies’ Flexible Platform
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One of the smartest decisions I made during my time at I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the outstanding support Kent Corp/GPC has received from the Locus team assigned to our environmental compliance log project. The Locus Project team has been extremely patient and tolerant throughout the entire project. This team navigated their way through a multitude of decisions, changes to decisions, and even more requested changes from GPC with patience that must have been challenging at times.
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EHS Compliance Calendar Best Practices
Wondering how best to track compliance requirements? Need to learn how to create an EHS calendar?
EHS compliance is a continuous challenge. Often, there are thousands of obligations spanning many years with varying frequencies. Many customers come to Locus to replace Excel spreadsheets, which are difficult to manage, and are equally difficult to track in email calendars. We have put together a working list of best practices and features to use when moving from email calendars/Excel to a more robust compliance solution.
How to extend your EHS software with integrated systems
It’s important to consider whether your EHS software will work with your other software. Find out why software integrations matter more than you think.
Integration with other systems, whether on-premises or in the cloud, has become a key wish list item for many EHS software buyers. It allows you to take advantage of other tools used by your organization (or available from third parties) to simplify processes, access information, and enhance communication, both internally and externally.
Locus software was designed with the native capability to integrate with other systems. To date, we have implemented many successful projects with these integrations. This white paper will cover some real-life examples of how we have successfully made seamless integrations simple and effective for EHS professionals.