Exposure Assessment System by CGI
CGI-AMS offers a web-enabled industrial health management system along with a full range of systems integration, consulting, and hosting services called EAS. EAS will allow industrial hygienists to manage and centrally record workplace exposure/health risks using an on-going process developed for changing operating conditions.
Following is information about EAS from CGI:
Managing and cost-effectively mitigating corporate risk in today’s highly competitive and heavily regulated global business environment has never been more challenging. At the same time, an organization’s health and safety posture has historically been an undervalued component in the formulation of corporate risk mitigation strategies.
Yet health and safety regulations and the management of health and safety processes and systems directly influence the cost and risk associated with almost every aspect of an organization’s operations.
Leading organizations are looking to health and safety management as a key component of their overall corporate risk management framework, and are focusing significant resources on standardizing health and safety issues in alignment with other corporate risk mitigation strategies. A well-founded and properly implemented health risk management system—from the business policy to the enabling technology—isolates risk, identifies inefficiencies, develops mitigation strategies and enables the reduction of corporate financial and regulatory exposure.
A proven solution built for health risk management
CGI-AMS has a track record of partnering with its clients to commercialize environmental, health and safety business applications. And now with the Exposure Assessment System (EAS) solution, built by ExxonMobil and available exclusively from CGI-AMS, companies have access to a proven health exposure risk management tool—a tool reviewed and endorsed by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) for its close alignment with the exposure assessment methodology. This methodology and the enabling EAS technology allow an organization to:
- Establish an exposure assessment strategy
- Collect basic characterization information (workplace, workforce and agents)
- Assess exposures to the workforce
- Prioritize health risks
- Implement monitoring and control strategies for unacceptable exposures
- Schedule and perform periodic reassessments as necessary
- Document and communicate health risk exposures
Delivering business value
EAS provides a comprehensive approach to risk assessment and management of workplace health hazards. To accomplish this, EAS uses a corporate risk matrix to assess potential health risks from factors such as chemical, physical and biological agents. The objective of EAS is to enhance and standardize health risk assessment and management in the workplace using an ongoing process performed by industrial hygienists that centrally records the potential health risks for changing operating conditions. EAS’s health risk identification, prioritization and management approach is fundamentally different from other tools designed to track sampling results or document employee medical records.
EAS provides the data capture, workforce management and risk framework necessary to automate an exposure assessment strategy across the enterprise. Short- and longterm benefits include the ability to:
- Quickly and easily implement the AIHA methodology in a single solution
- Identify and prioritize health risks at sites and across global operations
- Allocate resources efficiently and consistently without complexity and risk
- Focus on monitoring programs and medical surveillance
- Respond to exposure-related inquiries/concerns
- Communicate health risks to employees and managers
- Demonstrate regulatory compliance/OEL alignment
Corporations worldwide can now subscribe to a commercially available management system to comprehensively manage their employee health risk exposures. With immediate access to CGI-AMS’s proven EAS solution, organizations can promote a philosophy of continuous improvement that aligns with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approach to mitigating risks and with the AIHA exposure assessment methodology.