Organisations which may potentially pollute the environment are accountable for their environmental impact through strict rules and regulations set by governing bodies.  These rules and regulations consist of various requirements and conditions including:

• Identification of areas to be monitored, the frequency of these measurements, and what parameters are required.
• Compliance limits are applied to monitored areas, ranging from fixed levels to calculated limits.
• Resulting reports of monitoring data, with differing frequencies and formats.

As a result, companies are responsible for collecting, managing, interpreting, and reporting environmental data to minimise their environmental impacts and ensure environmental compliance.

Environmental data collection requirements vary depending on local governmental requirements, and result in several different factors to measure, including:

• Surface water, groundwater, air, and soil quality.
• Impacts on flora and fauna.
• Social implications through noise levels and visual appearance.

This data often needs to be combined with additional supplementary data, including:

• Production data.
• Weather conditions.
• Other metadata.

This environmental data will occupy large datasets which may originate from multiple sites at several different locations.  This presents significant problems for ensuring that environmental data is managed effectively within a company as large volumes of data will come from many sources including field data, loggers/sensors, laboratories, and different departments which can result in data being mismanaged, misplaced, or becoming unorganised.  This collected data will also likely have different layouts and formats that need to be consolidated for analysis, which is often done manually in spreadsheets and significantly increases the risk of data errors and missed reporting deadlines.

MonitorPro provides an environmental data monitoring system in one secure, centralised location which can help collect, interpret, and generate reports automatically.

• It enables checking the completion of monitoring, whether data has been uploaded from all sources, and whether any compliance breaches have occurred without the need for an employee to manually check data, saving time and removing human error.
• Interpretation and analysis tools enable further investigation of environmental data by generating maps, contour plots, tables, graphs, and reports.

As well as reducing human error it also saves a significant amount of time and provides report outputs which can easily be shared within the company or be sent to government regulators.

As well as ensuring environmental regulations and permits are met.  MonitorPro can alert identified users if a breach of compliance has been detected, meaning the problem can be highlighted and resolved quickly helping a company to minimise any environmental impacts.

It also enables the user to identify whether other breaches have occurred previously at the same location, a process which would be very time consuming if completed manually with spreadsheets.

By collecting and reporting environmental data effectively with MonitorPro your company can:

• Become more environmentally friendly.
• Please stakeholders.
• Improve your reputation.
• Reduce the risk of being fined through regulatory breaches or late reports.

For more information on how MonitorPro can help your company meet its environmental requirements and successfully manage its environmental data check out our features of MonitorPro, benefits of MonitorPro, and why choose MonitorPro pages, or contact us at enquiries@ehsdata.com.