Biopharma EHS Podcast Episode No. 20

BioPharma EH&S Podcast Episode No. 20

Hello everybody and welcome back to another Episode of the BioPharma EH&S Podcast, my name is Dean Calhoun of Affygility Solutions and this is the podcast dedicated to discussing critical environmental, health and safety issues facing the biopharma industry, helping you take your environmental, health and safety programs to the next level.

 Well, it’s Sunday, July 14^th, 2013 and it’s great to be here today. We have great show in store for you today and a lot of things to talk about, so let’s go ahead and get started.

 As always, I’d like to first mention what we are going to discuss in today’s podcast.  That way you can decide if it’s something that interests you, or should you just come back for our next episode.  In today’s podcast, we’re going to talk about the following topics. 

First, I’ll briefly cover what we talked about last time in episode number 19 

Then I will cover our main topic for today, which is EH&S Software – The Challenge of User Adoption

And finally, we’ll discuss upcoming events and happenings of importance to environmental, health and safety professionals in the BioPharma Industry.

So, let’s go ahead get started.  Last time in Episode number 19 we discussed the topic of “The Future of Potent Compound Safety – the next 100 years.”  In that Podcast, I presented four emerging trends that will shape the future of the pharmaceutical industry. Those trends included first, the development of medicines in space; second, the trend called “the Internet of Things;” third, the Maker Movement; and forth and finally, the Use of Big Data Tools.  If that’s something that may interest you, I would suggest that you go back and listen to Episode 19.

Alright, let’s now move on to our main topic for today which is EHS software – the challenge of user adoption. So without further delay, here we go.

 A little over a year ago, I created a post on EHS Compliance Management Software - Increasuing User Adoption and Engagement. In that post, I provide a few suggestions for encouraging user adoption of EHS software within an organization. The suggestions i provided by then included:

- Measure usage;

- Ensure data quality;

- Engage users during meetings;

- Tie individual compensation to usage; and

- Use peer pressure.

In addition to those five suggestions listed above, I would like to provide some additional suggestions. These additional suggestions include:

- Ensure executive leadership involvement;

- Identify and reward super users;

- Perform floor-walking;

- Ensure that the EHS software system is used by taking the approach, "If it isn't in the EHS software system, it didn't happen;"

- Mandate both timeliness and data quality.

O.k., that does it for our main topic, let’s now talk about some upcoming events.

Alright that does it for our main topic this week. One additional item that I would like to remind everyone of is oelfastrac.com, which is a convenient and affordable way to obtain high-quality occupational exposure limit monographs for common APIs. To learn more, please go to oelfastrac.com.

 O.k.  That does it for this week’s show.  Remember to submit your questions to our podcast email at [email protected].  You can also follow us on twitter at twitter.com/Affygility, on Facebook at facebook.com/affygilitysolutions and giving us a “Like”, and finally on LinkedIn by searching for Affygility Solutions.

That does it for this week’s show.  We look forward to having you listen in next time.

Have a great rest of the day.