◉    What is EHS assessment?

EHS is the abbreviation of environment, health and safety, and it is a management system introduced from European and American enterprises, and it is also called HSE at abroad.

The compliance evaluation of EHS regulations meets the requirements of laws, regulations and qualification in ISO14001 and ISO45001 management system certification, and a prevention management mechanism is established through systematic evaluation. It is the management method to improve enterprise safety, environment and health performance by completely eliminating all kinds of accidents, environmental and occupational hazards, so that the accidents, environmental pollution and occupational diseases can be reduced to the greatest extent.

◉    EHS risk cases

Environment—Taihu Lake water pollution incident

Because of the large number of chemical plants built around Taihu Lake, the water quality of Taihu Lake is seriously polluted, which leads to the residents can not drink normally and serious consequences.

Health—the personnel working at height do not wear safety belt; Improper operation causes the platform tilted. Three slingers fell to the ground while moving equipment on the 10m high hoisting platform, causing two deaths and one injury.

Safety— extraordinarily serious explosion accident in Tianjin Port

In the fire and explosion accident of dangerous goods warehouse in Tianjin Port, 165 people were dead, 8 people were missing, 798 people were injured and hospitalized, 304 buildings, 12428 commercial vehicles and 7533 containers were damaged. As of December 10, 2015, the accident caused direct economic loss of RMB 6.866 billion yuan.

◉    Background of EHS compliance evaluation

According to the statistics of relevant parties, there would be one production safety accident every 0.5 minutes, and one person died in 4 minutes in 2002. There would be one production safety accident every 8 minutes, and one person died in 12 minutes in 2016. With the shocking data and scenes of accidents, that how to avoid EHS risk and reduce economic losses has become very urgent for enterprises.

At present, many multinational enterprises take sustainable development as their long-term development strategy, and are committed to improving the economy, environment and society in order to achieve multi-party balance. Therefore, environmental protection, occupational health and safety production are taken as the basic conditions for selecting qualified suppliers.

In order to ensure the compliance of EHS regulations and effectively control and manage the risk, the organization needs to identify and master the relevant applicable laws and regulations on EHS, and formulate and implement the strategic plan in line with the development and performance of the organization.

◉    Content of EHS compliance evaluation service

CTI International Certification (hereinafter referred to as "CTI Certification") is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centre Testing International Group Co., Ltd. Established in 1993, CTI Certification is the professional certification authority with independent third-party fair status as approved by China National Certification and Accreditation Administration (CNCA) and China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS).

As early as 1997, CTI Certification has been qualified as the environmental management system certification authority. It was qualified as the occupational health and safety management system certification authority in 2002. It has provided auditing services for thousands of enterprises and accumulated a wealth of experience. Based on the accumulated experience of management system certification for many years, combined with the powerful regulatory database, CTI Certification has designed one set of compliance evaluation checklist for the organization with EHS compliance requirements in recent years to conduct a comprehensive EHS compliance evaluation and issue the authoritative report. To meet the organization's own risk management while enhancing the organization's competitive advantage.

◉    Service provided by EHS

• To help enterprises identify the compliance and compliance risks of EHS laws and regulations. Risk assessment will be carried out on the important EHS systems, operation guidelines, facilities, management and corresponding implementation involved in the cycle of storage, processing, transportation of materials and pre-treatment, storage, transportation and disposal of wastes generated in the process of processing, and on the important safety production, environmental protection and occupational health management systems and implementation. In addition, whether they meet the relevant regulations and mandatory standards will be checked to ultimately help enterprises identify risks;
• Implement comprehensive factory inspection, and conduct comprehensive compliance evaluation from the organization's management system, environmental management system, occupational health and safety system, safety production system, national and local laws and regulations compliance, as well as industry regulations and standards compliance;
• Identify applicable laws and regulations against organization management and production activities, and specify findings in auditing in detail;
• Make the evaluation conclusions and improvement suggestions to the evaluation factor to finally achieve the purpose that the organization can identify potential risks, effectively prevent risks, and improve the efficiency of environmental, occupational health and safety compliance management.

◉    Advantages of CTI EHS certification service

Authority: more than 100,000 regulations, 5,000 industry standards and powerful web pages and mobile software are integrated worldwide;

Experience: more than 20 years of third-party certification and auditing experience for more than 10,000 enterprises of different scale and natures, with rich experience in environment, occupational health and safety production;

Brand: taking the brand advantages of the CTI group, CTI Certification has reached cooperation with many domestic and foreign branded companies and provide long-term EHS compliance evaluation to its suppliers in Chinese mainland.