SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety

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6 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety?

SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety is software that helps to simplify incident handling, identify hazards, and mitigate risks for a safer, more efficient and compliant workplace.

Categories & Use Cases

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Anuj Sant View profile

Senior buyer in Manufacturing at GVA Lighting, Inc. (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety is a handy tool that we use as we cater a regulated high risk industry which involves work at height, heavy moving objects, working with high pressure and temperature devices. SAP S/4HANA tool help us managing our safety training events compliance and points , environmental /carbon footprint into our system. which help us maintaining our ISO standards and several other accreditations which are monitored and required by government bodies and some of our customers. It is helping us in risk and job hazard classification putting approval mechanism in place as and when needed.

Pros

health and Safety near miss, misses and other events recording
logistics costing and routes data
overall energy expense & compliance recording and monitoring

Cons

more detailing on safety with further customization

Return on Investment

Positive impact is we have a all EHS Data compiled at one place
helping us in better data governance and monitoring

Usability

Alternatives Considered

EHS Insight

Other Software Used

SAP S/4HANA for product compliance

Shaun Hilton

SAP Manager in Information Technology at FreportLNG (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety because it Helps us mitigate EHS risks.

Pros

Chemical management
Incident management

Cons

System complexity
Mobility

Return on Investment

The impact SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety has on our overall business objectives is Boosting safety awareness through data visibility

Usability

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used to manage our workplace safety incidents with an Excel based system. Needless to say that this was far from optimal. Now, with SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety incident management is finlay as it should be! We also manage our chemicals with SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety and we track operational risks occupational health. As an added bonus we it also helps us with our change management.

Pros

Operational Risk Assessment is one of the points where SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety does particularly well.
The Chemical Management Process is another of the SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety strong points
Incident management is one point where SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety really excels!

Cons

Training the users and getting them ready to work with the system does take quite some time.
Master data e.g. for chemicals, maintenance it quite time consuming.
Reporting incidents is a bit demanding for simple workers.

Return on Investment

SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety is not a cheap solution, so ROI will take a while
Not everything is about a quick ROI. Bringing order to chaos is also a much needed change.
Above all the most important thing is that defining clear policies and have a system in place for workplace safety helps keep the employees safe thus minimizing company risks!

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VelocityEHS and SafetyCulture

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

as a manufacturing ERP solution. We work across the globe with various machineries that have different set of procedures and guidelines for ensuring workplace safety. SAP workplace. Safety helps in collating and persisting data in structured fashion for various organisations that use our product across the globe for different kinds of machineries and technicians that operate with these machineries in different different ways. On top of specifying the guidelines it also helps us to track how the mitigation measures have been imposed.

Pros

Integration with learning management systems like SAP SuccessFactors that ensure necessary training is given as well as their completion is tracked with ease
It helps us to create automated workflows that can ensure whether necessary guidelines have been met or if they are not met, then what is the necessary plan of action that is supposed to be required.

Cons

Ease of integration with SAP cloud products like SuccessFactors, but no API or SDK based integration that is easy enough to integrate with text tax like Java or Golang
The use of AI is restricted to Joules copilot engine however, more sophisticated integration is with MCP tools and AI agents possible and will make user experience a lot better

Return on Investment

Because of increased automation for ensuring workplace safety standards are met Chances of human errors. Get reduced a lot.
Because of ease of integration with SuccessFactors for Tracking learning management progress related to workplace safety. Better visibility is present across an organisation which can be very helpful if number of Employees are pretty large.

SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety

What is SAP S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety?

Categories & Use Cases