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EHS Audits & Gap Analysis: Your Questions, Expert Answers

Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT

How do you know if your EHS program is covering all the bases? Or if it’s going far enough to mitigate exposures?

EHS auditing and gap analysis enables you to take stock of your current safety management systems and processes to expose and correct weaknesses that can jeopardize workers.

This webinar, led by one of DEKRA’s expert EHS consultants, covers the key principles and best practices in EHS audits and analysis. Then we open up the floor for an interactive Q&A session to address your specific questions and concerns.

Key Learnings

Critical components of an effective EHS audit
How to identify and address gaps in your safety programs
Expert advice tailored to your specific EHS challenges

Join us for this chance to talk shop with an EHS expert for information and advice, plus hear and learn from others responsible for EHS programs.

**We encourage you to submit questions in advance to ensure we cover the topics that matter most to you.**

Who Should Attend

All levels of EHS, operations, and safety are welcome. This session is especially relevant for:

EHS Managers and Directors seeking to improve audit processes
Safety Professionals looking for best practices in gap analysis
Operations and Facility Managers focused on compliance and risk management.
Compliance Officers ensuring regulatory adherence
Corporate Risk and Safety Teams managing enterprise-wide safety
HR Professionals with safety roles
EHS Consultants and Auditors wanting to stay updated on industry trends.

Your Presenter:
Nathan McMullin, CSP, CHMM, Senior Health and Safety Consultant - DEKRA

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EPA’s Methylene Chloride Ban: What It Means & How to Stay Compliant

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT

The rules have changed— are you ready?

Methylene chloride has long been used in adhesives, sealants, automotive products, and more. But with the EPA’s new TSCA Rule, its manufacture, import, processing, and distribution are now banned for consumer use and most industrial applications.

This sweeping regulation impacts multiple industries and presents serious compliance challenges. What does this mean for you?

Join us for a fast-paced, expert-led discussion featuring IH expert Jace Butterworth, who will break down:

The key compliance requirements & deadlines
How to transition to safer alternatives
What businesses must do NOW to stay compliant
The risks & penalties of noncompliance

Got questions? Bring them! Our expert will answer them in real time.

Who Should Attend? If you manufacture, process, use, or dispose of methylene chloride, this regulation affects you.

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How can you improve safety performance, while increasing productivity and driving employee engagement? Explore our resources below to discover how!

Engaging Supervisors and Middle Managers in the Safety Process

In this session one of DEKRA's Senior Consultants, Corey Hopkins will discuss the critical role supervisors and middle managers play in the safety performance of any organization. Do you feel like your supervisor level employees need to be more engaged in the safety process? We will address the following:
• What are the attributes of a strong safety culture?
• What does effective safety leadership look like?
• What are the barriers supervisory level employees face on a daily basis?

We will outline some strategies to further empower your supervisors and middle managers to be more engaged in the safety process.
• Training and Competency
• Hazard ID, Risk Assessment, and the Hierarchy of Controls
• Incident Reporting – A systems approach
• Putting Policy to Practice – Conversation Based Safety

WEBINAR: Assessing Safety Culture

During this webinar, our presenter, DEKRA SMS's, Director of Consulting Services, dissects the purpose behind a robust cultural assessment and diagnosis. he covers the benefits and tools used to measure and pinpoint outliers to forecast the framework of a cultural improvement plan. Listen in as we highlight common themes found in our recent assessments and database trends for guiding a potential improvement plan. We also discuss the cultural ripple effects of the assessment, along with the strength of communication and recommendation remediation.

Auditing with Insight Via™

During this training session attendees will learn how to use Insight Via™ three different ways to perform audits and track audit compliance, the different types of 3rd party audits we offer, as well as internal audit ideas for your facility.

The presenter will review the following features of the tool:

• How to conduct an audit in our system
• How to close out Corrective Actions from audit findings
• Review Audit reports
• Internal Audit ideas
• Mobile App’s

Stagnant BBS Programs: What Causes Them and How to Revamp

During this webinar, DEKRA Management System’s Director of Consulting Services, Joe Melton, discusses the downfall of stagnant BBS programs and the importance of revamping. The webinar will cover what a stagnant BBS program looks like, what causes this stagnation and tips to increase communication, engage both employees and leadership and bring the excitement of making a difference back into your program.

BBS: Why It Works

During this session DEKRA Management System's Director of Consulting Services, Joe Melton, reviews the foundation of a solid Behavior Based Safety program while analyzing key factors identified in successful programs. The webinar will display specific case studies showing multiple models of a BBS programs and the results yielded on:

• Lagging indicators, such as reduction in recordable incidents, restricted duty and lost time severity.

• Soft returns such as morale, engagement, empowerment, communication, trust, integrity and leadership.

• Indirect aspects of a business such as production, efficiencies, customer service, public image, waste/mistake reduction and quality improvements.

This session is beneficial for organizations researching options for custom built BBS programs and results others have seen from these models, as well as information on ROI of a BBS program and the impact it has the non-measurable aspects of an organization.

Adaptive BBS™: The 10 Second Observation

During this webinar, Tim Boyer, Managing Director of DEKRA Management Systems, discusses and demos the Adaptive BBS™ Software platform and its mobile capabilities. This behavior-based safety management system is designed to foster multiple feedback channels that improve effective and efficient safety conversations and risk removal.

Insight Via™ Application Training: Audit Management

During this training session attendees will learn how to document and track audit activities within their organization using the Audit Application in Insight Via. The presenter will review the application side of the tool to teach the attendees how to track and complete audits.

Insight Via™ Application Training: Behavior Based Safety

During this training session, attendees will learn how to add and track observations using the Behavior Based Safety application in Insight Via. The presenter will review the application side of the tool to teach the attendees how to add observations using the online feature, scan forms and the mobile tool.

Upcoming Webinars

EHS Audits & Gap Analysis: Your Questions, Expert Answers

EPA’s Methylene Chloride Ban: What It Means & How to Stay Compliant

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