SAP® GRC For Dummies®

Part III. Going Green

You'll find out about the various issues your company needs to consider before taking the leap into the wild green yonder, from the benefits you stand to reap from voluntarily deepening your shade of green to the harm you risk by insisting that the color you are now — whatever it may be — is just fine and dandy. You'll explore the three components in your company's overall green routine: your people, processes, and products.

You'll find out about watching over people, as OSHA requires, to optimize your work areas, assess risks, develop the best standard operating procedures, manage and report incidents, inspect your various job sites, and, of course, educate employees about health and safety matters. You'll then turn to processes — the array of practices your company must engage in to successfully account for the effect its operations have on the environment, consumer health, and employee safety. And finally you'll look at products, where you'll find out about how keeping your product-handling green will prepare you to comply with existing and upcoming environmental legislation.