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Six Sigma and Lean in EHS / HSSE (Health, Safety, Security & Environmental)

Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) costs and impact are often considered to be burdens that have to be carried by international businesses, but sometimes very little is done to understand them and control them worldwide.
Six Sigma / Lean deployments identify key drivers for the business, and for most business these include Cost, Revenue Growth, Safety and Working Capital. HSSE impacts all these areas and represent great opportunity in a global deployment, yet are at best glossed over, which can be problematic internationally when considering how health, safety and environmental regulations change from country to country.

Consider the following HSSE impacts on the four drivers:

SBTI's HSSE Offerings

SBTI and it's global strategic partner Inogen have developed a systematic approach to revitalizing the HSSE function in your multi-national company.
The tiered approach of Perform, Optimize, Transform can take an under-resourced, under-skilled, underperforming HSSE group, perceived as a mere cost to a business, to one that brings true value to the future growth of the company.

Inogen provides an international resource pool of skilled HSSE individuals. By transitioning HSSE activities to Inogen's resources, the client HSSE organization frees up it's valuable internal HSSE resources to work on the right things (including Optimize and Transform). This ensures valuable client HSSE resources are not poorly utilized on mundane activities best done by the right-priced Inogen resource.
Inogen's global HSSE resource pool gains economies of scale only possible for a large HSSE network and typically unavailable to most clients. By outsourcing HSSE activities, the costs are pay-as-you-go versus the overhead of extensive internal HSSE resources. Thus client costs are reduced, whilst increasing the quality of work undertaken.

Inogen's HSSE expertise, coupled with SBTI's Lean and Six Sigma process improvement methodologies drive down the waste and cost in the HSSE processes in your business.
Lean processes are nimble and responsive with minimal non-value added activities. Process lead times are reduced, with less resource needed and lower costs.
Six Sigma ensures each process is bullet-proof, running right the first time and every time. In an environment where defects can mean death or serious injury, what better than a methodology that can drive incidents down to near-zero level?

The majority of HSSE costs are not in the HSSE function, but hidden in the Operations of the business. Inogen's HSSE expertise, coupled with SBTI's Six Sigma process improvement methodology drive down the impact of HSSE related issues on the larger company infrastructure. The Six Sigma approach of identifying, minimizing and controlling the root-cause of problems works to lower the company environmental reserve, lower costs, reduce safety related issues and create potential for future growth previously impossible due to HSSE related issues.

For more information regarding HSSE, please contact HSSEinfo or call 1-888-752-7070.