How EHS Provides Safety for People

Based in Buffalo, Keith W. Pillich has dedicated a considerable part of his life to workplace safety. Presently, Keith W. (Walter) Pillich is an EHS Industrial Hygiene Specialist.

EHS stands for Environment, Health, and Safety, a system to ensure that workers are safe from harm. EHS provides safety in the workplace by enforcing laws. In the United States the Occupational Safety and Health Act contains stipulations for safety in the workplace, and EHS departments ensure that companies enforce these laws.

Different companies have different EHS policies. An EHS policy is a set of standardized environmental, health, and safety rules developed by an organization for itself. Note that these rules are specific to companies and are based on the generally accepted EHS laws. EHS policies are even more advantageous to workplace safety because they are based on the specifics of a company. For instance, the EHS that applies to a software development company does not apply verbatim to a smartwatch-producing company.