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To all clients, family, and friends affected by the Hurricane in South Texas: please make your safety your number one priority. Our thoughts are with you. We are ready to help when you need us.

Posted on Fri, Sep 01, 2017

Many of ERA's clients have been affected by Hurricane Harvey. During this difficult time please make keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe your top priority.

 

Please support the relief efforts in South Texas affected by Hurricane Harvey.

 

Here is a link to the Red Cross to donate funds to help support relief efforts: https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-harvey

 

ERA-EMS Software and Regulatory Updates for July 2017

Posted on Thu, Aug 24, 2017

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Software Updates for July 2017

ERA Environmental is committed to providing your business with EH&S software that lasts a lifetime. Our team of researchers and scientists work every day to roll out upgrades, new reports, and improvements. Every month we'll publish a summary of these new features here for you. Have any questions about these updates? Let us know at info@era-ehs.com

Product Specs

  • Added a function to add a Raw Material from its CAS number, and pull in data for the Summary Specs page.

Waste

  • Added a "Transporter" datatype and BL Object in Dynamic Forms.

CERTIS-Labels

  • Creation of a new label report to match WHMIS Requirements (Canada) - bilingual with transportation pictogram.

CERTIS-Transportation

  • Addition of Transportation Pictograms to the system and to 3 label reports (L061, L05520LC, L0554LC).

Document Management

  • The security settings for document privacy based on groups and user have been added. 

Dynamic Reports

  • Added the ability to select columns, merge columns of the same type, and add unique aliases.

BPM

  • The user can now select the columns they desire to have visible in their grid, and then setup said grid as a template and deploy it to selected users.

Vendor

  • Ability to modify product ID and save the original as an internal ID.

HR

  • The system can now detect when an employees' ID has changed.

Regulatory Updates for July 2017

Canadian Domestic Substance List (DSL)

The Domestic Substance List has been amended by adding the following chemicals:

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Non Domestic Substance List (NDSL)

The Non Domestic Substance List has been amended by adding the following chemicals:

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Your ERA-EMS and reporting functions have already been updated to reflect these changes.

ERA-EMS Software and Regulatory Updates for June 2017

Posted on Thu, Jul 06, 2017

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Software Updates for June 2017

ERA Environmental is committed to providing your business with EH&S software that lasts a lifetime. Our team of researchers and scientists work every day to roll out upgrades, new reports, and improvements. Every month we'll publish a summary of these new features here for you. Have any questions about these updates? Let us know at info@era-ehs.com

Incidents / Near Misses
  • The Module has been updated to allow automatic insurance claim submissions to GB.
KPI / Executive Dashboard
  • Automatically assign a new user group to all standard KPIs. Ensures that users have access to default KPIS. .
Sustainability
  • Addition of BL Objects for combustion and miscellaneous sources.
Training
  • Added a mass Create button for training.
  • Users can now automatically assign training based off a training Matrix.

TRI

  • Improved TRI Processing page so the users can now find the facility for which they want to process a TRI easier.
  • Ability to create an emission unit that contributes to emissions but is not included in TRI throughput calculations. This is mainly useful for cases where the user has on-site recycling processes where the recycled material needs to be counted for emission calculations but not in TRI throughput calculations.

Dynamic Reports

  • Users can now link more than  one template together for reporting. 

Regulatory Updates for June 2017

REACH: Substances of Very High Concern

Under the EU REACH regulation, substances that are one of the following can be regarded as substances for very high concern (SVHC).

  • Carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction (CMRs)
  • Persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBTs)
  • Very persistent and bio-accumulative (vPvBs)
  • Seriously and /or irreversibly damaging the environment or human health

Currently, there are 173 substances on the SVHC Candidate List. The Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern was last updated on the 12th February 2017.

The chemicals below have been added to the REACH SVHC regulation in the Master Chemical List following the update.

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Your ERA-EMS and reporting functions have already been updated to reflect these changes.

ERA-EMS Software and Regulatory Updates for May 2017

Posted on Tue, Jun 06, 2017

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Software Updates for May 2017

ERA Environmental is committed to providing your business with EH&S software that lasts a lifetime. Our team of researchers and scientists work every day to roll out upgrades, new reports, and improvements. Every month we'll publish a summary of these new features here for you. Have any questions about these updates? Let us know at info@era-ehs.com

Incidents / Near Misses
  • Upgrading Reports:The S5 report has been upgraded to display the datatype tree structure coming from dynamic forms. 
  • Upgrading UI: There has been an addition of an extra column to certain client account, in order to see division assigned to a facility, based on incident date.
  • Upgrading UI: An enhancement has been made to the BPM alert, dispatching an email after a client has recieved confirmation from insurance. 
  •  "Supervisor" has been removed as a mandatory field.
KPI / Executive Dashboard
  • Upgrading UI: Users can now customize colors in bar chart KPIs.
CERTIS / SDS Authoring
  • Reports: Produced reports are now capable of accomodating subcategories for phrases. The UI will display the parent the phrase falls under. 
  • Upgrading UI: An improvement has been made to the sections tab, on the template and SDS level, enabing the creation and viewing of a subcategory for phrases. The UI displays the parent the phrase falls under. 
Training
  • Viewing Training by Employee Number: Users are now able to view the any training documents associated and attached to a particular training number. 
CERTIS Labels / Transportation
  • New Label report: A label report can now be created to match CLP requirements (Europe). 
  • Translation Automation: The UI has been updated to accomodate additional languages, allowing for the entering of data for transportation in French for example, but linking it to English automation.
  • Addition of HazChem and HIN: A minor UI change has been made allowing the viewing of HazChem and HIN infomation in relation to selected transportation information. 

Tier II

  • Tier II Details: Users can now add storage container types to the pre-defined list. 

Inspection

  • Adding Tasks: Users can now add storage container types to the pre-defined list. 

Compliance

  • Users can now add tasks on the fly.

Dynamic Reports

  • Ability to add formulas to Custom Report sources for Dynamic Reports: When developing a Dynamic Report using a custom report source, users can now develop formulas to obtain or convert data in the dynamic report. This functionality was previously available for Dynamic Reports using dynamic forms, and has now been implemented for custom report sources. 

Regulatory Updates for May 2017

Canada - Federal Domestic Substances List (DSL)

The Domestic Substance List has been amended by adding the following chemicals:

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Your ERA-EMS and reporting functions have already been updated to reflect these changes.

ERA-EMS Software and Regulatory Updates for April 2017

Posted on Wed, May 03, 2017

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Software Updates for April 2017

ERA Environmental is committed to providing your business with EH&S software that lasts a lifetime. Our team of researchers and scientists work every day to roll out upgrades, new reports, and improvements. Every month we'll publish a summary of these new features here for you. Have any questions about these updates? Let us know at info@era-ehs.com

User Settings / Preferences

  • Improvements regarding Password Settings: Users now have the ability to reset their passwords using two methods, either using the feature in Admin > User Settings > Preferences, or through using the "Forgot Your Password?" link on the ERA-EHS login page.

Incidents / Near Misses

  • Upgrading Reports: Report S4 has been upgraded to display the address information of the employee, even if this is not the default setting. 
  • Upgrading UI: A new graphical panel has been added to Dynamic Forms, which will help users better view the process flow. 
  • Upgrading UI: A new copy value has been added to facilitate connectivity between "facility" and "job". 
  • Upgrading UI: Employee "Add on the Fly" options has been upgraded, with the user being provided with a new filtering option for the supervisor. 

Chemical Coating

  • Improvement to the Product Upload: The product upload UI has been improved, now enabling the user to match the missing supplier IDs on the Product Upload, to the existing Supplier List in the ERA system. This feature will be useful in cases where the same supplier company has different naming conventions, with differing variants. 

NPRI

  • Report UI: The selected processes for processing an NPRI report is now saved at the project level. This enables the user to re-process the report if need be without having to go through the source selection step again. 

Tier II

  • Improvement to Tier II Processing: When processing Tier II by usage, the sources selected are now retained in the project if the user ever needs to review or reprocess. 

Application Administration

  • Display Change: In the "Alerts and Notifications" settings, a tab has been re-titled from "Column" to "Questions". 
  • Option to Exclude Users: In the "Alerts and Notifications" settings, users and groups can now be selected to receive notifications and alerts. However, once a group is selected, there was an issue of not being able to exempt certain people other than individually searching for them and removing them. Now, an exemption box has been installed. 
  • Addition of email HTML options: If email type is HTML, the user is now able to text format the subject and body of the email, thus allowing emails to be customized (bold text, highlighting, etc).

Tanks

  • Warning Message: Users can now implement a general warning message for Tanks and consolidate them in one place. 

BPM

  • New Process Flow Chart: This new feature is found every time a new process is added or opened. The chart will show the steps of the process the user is assigned to, and it displays three different colors, blue, green and brown. The blue indicates the current step, brown is pending, and green is completed. When hovering the cursor over the arrow of each stop, all forms in that step will be visible. Clicking on the text of each step will go to that step. 

NEI

  • New CSB for KDHE: Creation of a new CSV to be submitted electronically. 
  • Creating one report for NC: Consolidation of six reports into just one report. 

Dynamic Reports 

  • Report Date Display: The report date display is now functional in dynamic forms. The reports will display the dates according to user preferences. 
  • Formula Improvements: Formulas can now be applied to Custom Reports when building Dynamic Reports. 
  • New Data Type: The float data type was added in the formula field to better display significant figures / decimal values in reports.

Finishing 

  • Error Trapping: Better error trapping messages have been included in KPI graphs. 
  • Cost Center improvements: New functionality has been added to match application system groups to the cost center. 
  • Application System: User specific functions have been made to edit the application system for the Batch function. 

KPIs

  • Graph Colors: Users now have control over which colors to include in KPI charts. 

Regulatory Updates for April 2017

Canada - Federal

Domestic Substances List (DSL)

The Domestic Substance List has been amended by adding the following chemicals:

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Non-Domestic Substances List (NDSL)

The Non Domestic Substance List has been amended by removing the following chemicals:

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Your ERA-EMS and reporting functions have already been updated to reflect these changes.

New ERA-EHS Password Requirements - Announcement

Posted on Wed, Apr 26, 2017

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As part of our continuous effort to ensure data confidentiality and integrity, ERA is implementing a new password protocol for our clients. 

ERA is implementing new minimum requirements for passwords for all user accounts. These requirements will take effect on Monday, 15 May 2017. If your password does not meet the new capability you will be prompted to change your password.

New secure passwords must contain:

  • A minimum of eight characters.
  • At least one uppercase letter and one lowercase letter.
  • At least one number.
  • At least one of the following symbols: @ $ ! % * ? # &

If your existing password already meets the above standards, you will not need to do anything.

If your current password does not meet the above security standard, you will need to create a new password using the simple password reset process. Follow the instructions below to create a new secure password.

There are two ways in which you can reset your password. These are outlined below.

Method 1

         1. Log into the ERA application with your current username and password.

step 0.jpg          2. Once logged in, click the ‘Admin’ button at the top of the screen. Then select User Settings from the drop-down menu, and click Preferences on the subsequent drop-down menu.
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       4. Enter your old password, plus your new password.

       5. Click Save to complete the process. 

Method 2

  1. On the ERA application login page, click on the Forgot Your Password? link.password-requirements-image-1.jpg
  2. Type in the ERA username and email address associated with your user account. Click Reset. Note: If you cannot remember your username or associated email address, contact tech_support@era-ehs.com for further assistance.password-requirements-image-2.jpg
  3. You will receive an email to the email address you provided. Click the link in that email. Note: If you do not receive an email within one hour, please first check your junk email folders. If you still cannot find the email, contact tech_support@era-ehs.com for further assistancepassword-requirements-image-3.jpg
  4. The link will open the ERA application. Type in your new secure password into the two password fields. Ensure both passwords are identical. You can choose to create your own password, or click on Password Suggestion to have a secure password created.password-requirements-image-4.jpg
  5. Click Save New Password. After you save your new password, you can follow the link to the Login page to log into the application with your new password.

ERA greatly values our clients’ user experience. If you encounter any difficulty in resetting your password, please do not hesitate to contact us at tech_support@era-ehs.com.

We are confident that this new policy will result in a more robust and better overall experience for our users.

ERA-EMS Regulatory Updates Alert for July 2016

Posted on Fri, Aug 05, 2016

Badge_v2ERA Environmental's regulatory research team ensures that your ERA-EMS is always up to date with with regulatory changes. Every month we'll publish any updates here. It's part of our commitment to excellent customer service, environmental reporting expertise, and protecting your business. Have any questions about these updates? Let us know at info@era-ehs.com.

July Updates

Canadian Domestic Substances List (DSL)

The Domestic Substance List has been amended by adding the following chemicals:

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Canadian Non Domestic Substance List (NDSL)

The Non Domestic Substance List has been amended by removing the following chemicals:

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Canadian Non Domestic Substance List (NDSL) 

The Non Domestic Substance List has been amended by adding the following chemicals:

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Your ERA-EMS and reporting functions have already been updated to reflect these changes.

 

ERA-EMS Regulatory Updates Alert for June 2016

Posted on Wed, Jul 13, 2016

Badge_v2ERA Environmental's regulatory research team ensures that your ERA-EMS is always up to date with with regulatory changes. Every month we'll publish any updates here. It's part of our commitment to excellent customer service, environmental reporting expertise, and protecting your business. Have any questions about these updates? Let us know at info@era-ehs.com.

June Updates

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)

CAS# 107-06-2, 1,2-Dichloroethane was added to the ERA VOC list, based on its high vapor pressure and the kOH value of 2.5 E-13 cm3/mol-sec which is more than the kOH value for ethane (2.4E-13 cm3/mol-sec).

Canadian Domestic Substances List (DSL)

The Domestic Substance List has been amended by adding the following chemicals:

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Canadian Non Domestic Substance List (NDSL)

The Non Domestic Substance List has been amended by removing the following chemicals:

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Your ERA-EMS and reporting functions have already been updated to reflect these changes.

 

ERA Environmental Management Solutions Partakes in Prominent G7 Summit in Washington DC

Posted on Wed, Jun 01, 2016

ERA has been recognized as a leading provider of Environmental Management Solutions (EMS) at the G7 Summit. ERA’s solutions were highly commended as key initiatives supporting the circular economy.

Montreal, May 25. ERA Environmental Management Solutions was personally invited by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to participate in the recently held G7 Alliance on Resources Efficiency Summit hosted by the United States in Washington, DC on March 22nd-23rd. The G7 is a collaborative consortium represented by the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and Japan.

This workshop on the Use of Life Cycle Concepts in Supply Chain Management to Achieve Resource Efficiency served as a forum for participants from across the globe to explore how to use life cycle concepts to advance resource efficiency and focus on significant upstream impacts in supply chains, specifically those of the auto sector. This sector is a global economic driver with supply chains spanning across the world. Additionally, automobile manufacturers and their suppliers are innovatively using life cycle concepts to identify and address significant impacts and resource use.

“We are very honored to have been personally invited by the EPA to the attend the summit”, said Gary Vegh, Co-founder and President of ERA Environmental Management Solutions. “It is a testament of the stellar reputation we have garnered as a provider of environmental management solutions over the past 20 years serving companies with operations in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, UK, US, Canada, and Mexico.

ERA has gained an enviable status as a technology company that is synthesizing an environmental mission with business growth – developing disruptive EH&S Solutions that are creating the new age of sustainable business. ERA offers the industry’s most comprehensive suite of software, content and technology for end-to-end management of sustainability performance. It provides multi-tenant SaaS solutions for Environmental and Health & Safety Management. ERA solutions are used by enterprises to drive both compliance and reporting excellence as well as intelligence-based business performance; characterized by a ‘perfectly designed’ intuitive interface which is easy to use and to configure, resulting in accelerated user adoption & employee productivity.

The G7 Summit provided us with the ideal audience to share our environmental expertise and promote our vision of shared value across the entire supply chain accentuating how both our environmental and health & safety solutions drive the circular economy through re-manufacturing and zero-landfill initiatives”, proclaimed Sarah Sajedi Founder and CEO of ERA. “Moreover, our vision was applauded by none other than Gina McCarthy the US Government appointed Administrator of the EPA”; Sarah Sajedi continued to say, “A combination of domain experience, a deep partner network, ease of use seamless inter-operability with client enterprise applications have helped ERA become a leader in the EHS and sustainability space. In addition, our continued investment in new product features and functionality, as well as enabling users achieve a sustainable ROI, have been the cornerstone of ERA’s success.

About ERA Environmental Management Solutions - Creating the New Age of Sustainable Business

The pressure of sustainable business compliance is the most powerful agent of corporate accountability. ERA is a new breed of EHS solutions provider empowering enterprises to connect compliance and sustainability into your core business strategy allowing you to achieve EHS excellence and become more agile, cost efficient, predictive and profitable in the emerging circular economy.

We are environmental, regulatory, and compliance experts with over 20 years of experience in providing the right solution at the right time at the right price. Unlike most of the competition, ERA offers a true powerhouse data-driven, cloud managed, SaaS-based multi-tenant system design. Our solution goes beyond the boundaries of traditional enterprise-wide EHS and provides in-depth business intelligence synthesis, reporting and analytics, fully empowering you outmaneuver and outdistance your competition.

ERA provides consultancy and project management expertise through assigning your enterprise a team of dedicated Environmental Scientists and Toxicologists. Our ultimate mission is to implement economies of scale across your enterprise while achieving repeatable profits relative to strengthen your industry leadership, safeguard jobs, and boost environmental performance.


 

Elite EPA Policy Makers and Environmental Thought Leaders Take Centre Stage at EHS Ingenuity at Work Conference

Posted on Wed, May 25, 2016

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ERA Environmental Management Solutions, the leading world-class provider of global environment, health and safety software solutions celebrated its 20th business anniversary by hosting the EHS Ingenuity at Work Conference on May 2nd to May 4th in Charlotte, NC. The EH&S Compliance Ingenuity at Work Conference was designed as the meeting place for Environmental Health & Safety professionals.  This 3-day conference brought together the best minds and environmental leaders in the manufacturing industry to discuss best practices, proactively address emerging challenges, and discover new Environmental Health & Safety solutions.

Expectations from both attendees as well as sponsor/exhibitors were high; the conference did not disappoint, delivering to deepen understanding of emerging environmental regulations.  The conference included keynote presentations by EPA policy makers and regulators, client presentations as well as a plethora of live training, workshops peer-to-peer breakout and networking sessions on process and product related experiences with the ERA EHS solution.

“We took attendees on an intensive deep dive into the very latest tactics to expand your understanding of emerging EH&S regulations and improve their current environmental as well as business management practices, said Sarah Sajedi - Co-Founder & CTO of ERA Environmental Management Solutions.  “The conference provided attendees with the opportunity to focus on role-specific training with their peers within the ERA community.  Attendees learned collaborative skills to help their organizations decrease costs, increase productivity, drive revenue and enhance health and safety practices.”

The event’s sponsor and attendee profile included some of today’s leading manufactures automotive petrochemical & coatings, and other manufacturing sectors.  “This conference proved to be a great way for us to connect face-to-face with our clients,” explained, Michel Brown - Director of Sales and Marketing.  “Moreover, our product stewardship sessions also helped bridge the knowledge gap between people, process and technology to help our customers become more proactive and agile, effectively streamlining overall cost, increasing product roll out velocity, while meeting regulatory compliance and reporting requirements.

About ERA Environmental Management Solutions - Creating the New Age of Sustainable Business

The pressure of sustainable business compliance is the most powerful agent of corporate accountability. ERA is a new breed of EHS solutions provider empowering enterprises to connect compliance and sustainability into your core business strategy allowing you to achieve EHS excellence and become more agile, cost efficient, predictive and profitable in the emerging circular economy. We are environmental, regulatory, and compliance experts with over 20 years of experience in providing the right solution at the right time at the right price. Unlike most of the competition, ERA offers a true powerhouse data-driven, cloud managed, SaaS-based multi-tenant system design. Our solution goes beyond the boundaries of traditional enterprise-wide EHS and provides in-depth business intelligence synthesis, reporting and analytics, fully empowering you outmaneuver and outdistance your competition. ERA provides consultancy and project management expertise through assigning your enterprise a team of dedicated Environmental Scientists and Toxicologists. Our ultimate mission is to implement economies of scale across your enterprise while achieving repeatable profits relative to strengthen your industry leadership, safeguard jobs, and boost environmental performance.

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