Development of the EHS management system as SaaS for small and medium manufacturing firms

Manufacturing firms are facing potential environment, health and safety (EHS) issues of major accidents to cause casualties or a financial loss and increasing social responsibility. Therefore they have to voluntarily accomplish the EHS management system rather than passively with regard to the EHS regulation. In this study, we develop the cloud computing service based EHS management system as SaaS for small and medium manufacturing firms to materialize self-regulation EHS process of manufacturing workplace and to standardize and visualize the EHS business process. The proposed system also provides risk analysis, education/control and continuous improvement for EHS tasks and users can easily access the system on the web at a low price through cloud computing service. Eventually, the proposed cloud computing service based EHS management system as SaaS contributes to the managerial improvement by minimizing economic and physical loss caused by EHS accidents and can be easily integrated into legacy systems such as ERP.