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Welcome to our blog, find out more about what's happening at EDMS ConsultantsAddressing the Primary Challenge of Email Management: Information Sprawl
No single thing probably drove the early growth of the internet as much as email did. In that way, it’s considered a driver application for internet tech, like cryptocurrency sparked interest in developing blockchain tech. Email gave us an inexpensive (sometimes free)...
Do You Really Need an HSE Legal Register?
There are a surprising number of companies operating without any real idea of their worker health & safety and/or environmental regulatory obligations. This is particularly true in developing countries, where there are undoubtedly many reasons for this lack...
The Framework to Manage HSE Aspects
A HSE Management System is an integrated approach where all the 3 HSE factors are effectively managed to reduce risks in the workplace and environment. The objective of a HSE Management System is to provide a structured management approach to control health, safety...
How to Outmaneuver Shadow IT with Intelligent Information Management
Shadow IT is when employees use unapproved software, apps, and devices to do their jobs. Typically, employees have good intentions and may turn to various ad-hoc services to get their work done because they don’t believe their employer provides them with a good...
The Wrong Way and the Right Way to Deploy a Remote Workforce
In an era where more people are working remotely than at literally any point up until now, it’s safe to say that business leaders all over are suddenly forcing themselves to learn a lot about how to manage these new remote workforces that they find...
Building Resilience: Adapting to Remote Work, Improving Health & Safety, and More with Your CMMS
Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, it is no longer business-as-usual, and most businesses are having to adapt and learn new ways of operating. For some, this means implementing advanced infection control measures in an effort to maintain status-quo production...
Facts and Figures: Which Nations Were (and Weren’t) Prepared for a Remote Workforce?
The world has been forced into remote work. Each country has instituted its own brand of lockdown in an attempt to flatten the curve and a recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article presented data on which nations were and weren’t prepared to deploy a remote...
How Maintenance Teams Can Make the Most of A Manufacturing Slowdown
It can be unsettling if production at your facility is slower than usual. You might even find yourself missing things you never thought you’d miss. The noise. The hustle and bustle. The routine. But you can also find opportunity. With more time in your schedule,...
The Importance of Demonstration Of Safe Operation (DOSO)
Demonstration Of Safe Operation (DOSO) assessment is for non-major hazard installation as stipulated in Occupational Safety and Health (Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards) Regulations 1996 or CIMAH regulations. DOSO is applied to an industry activity where...
We Need Consultants Now More than Ever: How the “New Normal” Offers Consulting Firms New Opportunities to Win and Retain Business
The pandemic has unsettled the world, leaving us all to navigate the uncertainty. I don’t need to elaborate. We all know and feel the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our economy, workplaces, and personal well-being. However, at the time of writing this,...
When it Comes to Digital Transformation and Remote Work Enablement: Adapt or Perish
The following is a guest post from one of M-Files partner Iron Mountain Europe, authored by Andrie Neocleous. As we try to assess the impact of the pandemic, our thinking inevitably revolves around how this epidemiological crisis will affect the work of each of us,...
The Self-Regulation of Environmental Equipment
Did you know? Under the Environmental Quality (Clean Air) Regulations 2014, an owner or occupier of premises shall not , without giving prior written notification to the DOE Director-General.:- Carry out any change in operation of his premises;Carry out any work on...
How COVID-19 is Changing the Way Maintenance Teams Work
Like the rest of the world, most of the maintenance industry has been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. We talked to several maintenance professionals to find out what challenges they’re facing, how they’re meeting them head-on, and how they’re showing...
3 Ways Professional Services Firms Can Reap Dividends as we Move Beyond Digital Transformation
At its core, digital transformation is exactly what it sounds like: “The process of integrating newer and more sophisticated examples of digital technology across all areas of your business, thus fundamentally changing how things operate for the better along the way.”...
Helping Your Team Get Started with a Mobile CMMS App
So you bought a CMMS. Maybe you’ve been using the system for a while now, or maybe you only just stood it up — either way, you’re not taking full advantage of the system if your team isn’t using the mobile maintenance app that comes with most modern cloud...
The Importance of Framework to Manage HSE Aspects
A HSE Management System is an integrated approach where all the 3 HSE factors are effectively managed to reduce risks in the workplace and environment. The objective of a HSE Management System is to provide a structured management approach to control health, safety...
The Importance of LOPA in Risk Management
Layer of Protection Analysis also known as LOPA is a risk management technique commonly used in the chemical process industry that can provide a more detailed, semi-quantitative assessment of the risks and layers of protection associated with hazard scenarios. LOPA is...
Safety of the Plant, Surrounding People, and the Environment – QRA
Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) is to evaluate risks in ensuring that major risks of facilities are understood and managed within ALARP. QRA makes sure that: The hazards and the associated risks inherent in the design and operations are systematically identified...