How MonitorPro Solves the Environmental Data Management Problem

Environmental permits and regulations are legal requirements that place conditions upon a site’s operation and ensure environmental impacts are managed. In addition to these permits, other environmental legislation may be in place from other governmental regulations set at the local, regional, or country levels.  For example:

• Australian National Pollutant Inventory (NPI).
• Canadian National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI).
• The UK Pollution Inventory (PI).
• The United States Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).
• The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR).

With the increased focus upon climate change and sustainability, the number of permit requirements and legislation will continue to grow, and policies such as ‘cap and trade’ schemes will increase the need for extensive and accurate reporting.

Permits and other legislation require collecting vast amounts of environmental data and report submission at specified intervals. If this data is not collected and report deadlines are missed, a site can be at risk of fines or even closure.  From a national government perspective, it can have implications for specified targets. While governmental regulation generally drives the requirements for accurate and efficient data management, a company’s internal policies around improved business performance and corporate social responsibility also contribute to the need for sound environmental data performance through:

• Improving environmental performance to reduce costs through the reduction of energy consumption and waste production.
• Improved compliance and removal of resulting fines.
• Reduction of time spent on routine reporting and tasks.
• Public perception of the company.

The amount of data collection can be vast, and the resulting data can be in different formats, collected at various frequencies, come from different sources, and can potentially be at different operating locations if multiple sites are involved. This can make the resulting reporting difficult if suitable environmental data management is not utilised, and gives rise to several key issues:
 

• How do sites know they are meeting all their monitoring and data collection requirements?
• How can data be shared easily between different users and site locations?
• How can reports be created for different external bodies or for internal reporting requirements at required intervals?
• How can compliance be easily monitored?
• How can data be validated and errors be identified and rectified?

MonitorPro has been specifically designed for effective environmental data management and has been successfully used by over 200 clients for over 25 years, and through the use of MonitorPro a site can achieve all the following from a single centralised system:

• Manage all environmental monitoring data from one centralised system.
• Automatic environmental data imports.
• Collect environmental data in the field, with automatic alerts if data has not been collected.
• Flexible and comprehensive compliance system.
• Set targets for any variable or KPI calculated in the system.
• Create internal warning levels to help prevent breaches.
• Automatic validation of data to rule out unlikely or impossible data.
• Automatic Email notification for issues or breaches.
• Alerts if compliance data is missing.
• Automatic compliance report generation.
• Extensive range of interpretation tools to analyse data and create visual outputs.
• Easily manage and analyse large volumes of varied data.
• Integration with other systems including SAP or PI for further analysis.

In addition to this several other key features are available with MonitorPro:
 

• Continued system updates consisting of software improvements and bug fixes. These will be completed automatically when released by EHS Data if hosted.
• Software and training support with a dedicated and experienced account manager.
• A secure system with unique user access and the ability to enable user roles with different access permissions and a complete audit trail of changes made to the database.
• EHS Data is both Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001 Certified.
• MonitorPro is MCERTS accredited so you can be sure that quality control is first and foremost.

For more information on MonitorPro, check out our benefits of MonitorPro, features of MonitorPro, and why choose MonitorPro pages, or contact us at enquiries@ehsdata.com.