Compliance means understanding company performance compared to
internal or external targets. These could have a bearing on
corporate reputation, relationship with regulators and other
stakeholders and health and safety of employees.
Limits and targets could derive from for example:
- Environmental permits to operate
- National standards, (e.g. drinking and groundwater standards,
red list, ANZECC)
- Internal processes for continuous improvement
- Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
processes
- Health and safety data levels (e.g. heavy metal blood
concentrations related to heavy metal contamination of airbourne
dust.)
MP-5 Users can set compliance limits and targets for:
- Any monitoring dataset (e.g. concentrations for any variable in
groundwater).
- Any variable calculated in the system (e.g. metal loading to
receiving water course calculated from concentration and flow)
- Any KPI in a sustainability process (e.g. CO2 produced per
tonne of product expressed per site, business unit or corporately.
These data automatically calculated from data on electricity use
(Kwh), diesel used (litre) for example
- Warning levels (e.g. 80% of target) to forewarn and breeches
are being approached
- Targets created based on previous performance to show
improvement (e.g. average plus 2 standard deviations over last
three years for any historically managed data set)
- User-defined warnings can also include statistically unusual
'outlier' data (e.g. 'average + 3 std. deviations' or 'max +
25%')
- Breaches are notified to users via e-mail following automated
import, or or on-screen if manual data entry.
- Notifications can be configured so that only relevant people
are alerted to relevant alert types
- Regular compliance summary reports can be automatically
generated and sent as pdf attachments to email distribution
lists.
- Graphs, tables and multilingual reports generated subsequently
can display this information.
Limits and targets can change over time. Audit trails and
historical data integrity is retained.
