Brian Long's stance: Any business model that includes a Site EHS Lead is OUTDATED

My stance for EHS Excellence: Any business model that includes a Site EHS Lead is OUTDATED.

Yes Sir, Yes Ma'am, I'll hold my ground on this.

Here it is rephrased: A Site EHS Lead as the foundation of a program? That model is clearly outdated.

EHS excellence has no single point of failure. It is an EHS-driven culture, coached by a dedicated team rather than a chain of site and corporate EHS roles.

I really like that prior sentence. It calls into question the value derived from site and corporate EHS roles. Bring it on!

I’ve seen sites fail too many times. Are there exceptions? Sure, maybe here or there. But after years of working with hundreds or even thousands of companies through our NJ area, it is a minority.

On the flip side, I’ve also seen firsthand the success that a dedicated EHS team provides, and all these successes have no single point of failure. There’s no account manager, no project lead.

For instance, I know one outsourced EHS solution that uses an all-inclusive subscription model. They use a team-based approach, and it’s flexible and adaptable. This one that I know also uses a Scrum-based framework. Who could it be?

If you Google ‘Team-based EHS in NJ’ you’ll find that company, just below the sponsored results...

Cheers!

Brian