VelocityEHS

Waste management.

Comments: Environmental, social, and governance resource management is a priority for employee empowerment and the health of our patients.
Velocity EHS provides features that allow us to identify and analyze patterns to develop safer work practices and prevent accidents.
It is a great source of information where we can track employee training progress and avoid penalties or fines for poor practices.
It has helped us implement our waste management system and classify waste types.

Pros:

It is easy to use to perform risk analysis, identify potential hazards, and establish better prevention and control measures. It helps avoid non-compliance and fines, and keeps track of each clinic's environmental performance.

Cons:

We had some initial issues with the reporting, but the support team was quick to respond and answer our questions.

Pros to chemical management

Comments: I brought Velocity to my current employer from my previous and have recommended them to others on multiple occasions. Great product serves a purpose and is within a reasonable price point.

Pros:

In many workplaces chemical management is overlooked, it can be cumbersome task that takes many man hours and often times the amount of materials does not justify the lost hours spent monitoring the program. After the initial start up costs its just more feasible to have Velocity manage the chemicals.

Cons:

Ease of use, accessibility to information and costing

Almost there!

Comments: Velocity EHS had a great user interface, but the inability to make changes to the list data and lost time was a bridge too far. The list data was always changing and the costs kept escalating along with the lost time waiting for Velocity EHS to make the changes was a killer.

Pros:

The process flow through the program was intuitive and easy to follow.

Cons:

Administrators were unable to make changes to list data which resulted in additional costs and lost time wating for the vendor to make the requested changes.

Alternatives Considered: Dakota ProActivity EHS Software, Intelex EHS Software and Cority

Reasons for Switching to VelocityEHS: It was a corporate decision. I was agaaist the purchase.

Velocity EHS in Corrections

Comments: The department has used MSDS Online, now Velocity EHS since 2009. Could not be more satisfied.

Pros:

MSDS/SDS management is most critical for the Department. We have 22 correctional facilities, plus headquarters and parole. All of these areas have access to the Department ebinder, as well as their own facility/office ebinders. Having access to this helps all areas keep their MSDS/SDS and chemical control in line by having the ability to know what chemicals/products are approved for use in the department.

Cons:

Reports used to be easier to use. They used to be able to be exported in .pdf or .rtf which were formatted in a printable way. Now with export to excel spreadsheets, the reports have to be extensively edited to be able to get all of the information we use onto a printable page. We use product summary reports for our allowable chemical lists in our chemical inventory books, so a format that will print them in an 8 1/2 or 11x14 size would be great.

Working with RiskView

Comments: My overall experience has been enlightening. I am used to having to manage risk registers in excel then use Microsoft Visio to create the bowtie then enter all of that into a corporate reporting system, so much duplication. Now I can enter into RiskView once, then select view as a bowtie or view as a risk register, saves a heap of time and provides a range of reporting options.

Pros:

The best feature is that this is an all in one system, no need to manage risk registers in excel then create a bowtie separately. Enter the information once view individual risk scenarios as a bowtie or view the complete risk register in table format even export to excel. The program has an easy to use interface and navigation is simple. The construction of bowtie risk assessments is easy to follow.

Cons:

Wish we had taken the time to set the software up properly at the beginning. The information you get out is only as good as the information you put in. Only now are we starting to realise the potential of RiskView as we take the time to set the program up properly.