Cindy Chiles, President of convergence consulting LLC, tells Brinda Sen, Senior Director of Advisory Services for Sustainability Roundtable, Inc., when recently interviewed on environmental health and safety software (e.g. task management, workflow, compliance management, compliance knowledgebase, etc.): “When advising a client on EHS compliance tools these are the features convergence has found are the keys to a powerful and useful EHS software." Simplicity. We use the two click test to determine if software is simple. Can you get to the place you want in the system in two clicks? Intuitive. For us “intuitive” means no more than 15 minutes to train someone to use the main functions of the system. Flexibility. The system must be easy to change rather than requiring programming for customized changes. For example choosing a different label for a data field, or changing the color coding for a severity rating, or changing icon images, ought to be a simple configuration change versus an expensive program change. Relevant data. The system should be loaded with EHS data that is specifically relevant to your operations; you do not want to sort through unnecessary information. convergence, together with the Optial team of software engineers and their powerful web platform, used these key principles as its mantra when configuring EHS Smart Start system loaded with the CoreTM tools – country legal registers and audit checklists - and all tailored specifically for office and retail operations.
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