2016: How to Purchase Environmental, Health & Safety Solutions

Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) continues to grow as a significant concern in organization around the world. Because of the reach and impact of EH&S initiatives, the decision to purchase solutions can quickly evolves into an extensive process with complicated and diverse requirements. Further, we are seeing a growing trend in which EH&S is a critical component to Enterprise GRC strategies and is a significant consideration in selection of an Enterprise GRC platform. EH&S professionals often find themselves bewildered by the variety of technology solutions available to manage EH&S. Some are broad enterprise platforms, while other solutions focus on specific needs of EH&S.

Recent RFP and inquiry trends that GRC 20/20 is involved with show a growing demand for EH&S management solutions. There are over one-hundred solutions available in EH&S management with varying capabilities and approaches.  Organizations need to clearly understand the breadth and depth of their requirements, map these into EH&S solution capabilities, and understand that there is no one size fits all solution for EH&S management no matter what solution providers may say. It has become a complex segment of the GRC market to navigate, understand, and find the solution(s) that are the perfect fit for your organization.

In this Research Briefing GRC 20/20 provides a framework for organizations evaluating or considering EH&S management platforms and more focused solutions. Specifically, GRC 20/20 will break out types of solutions in the market and what capabilities can be found in basic, common, and advanced solutions.