Empower EHS stakeholders with regulatory insights

Safety affects everybody in a global business, and that means a wide range of professionals need to be aware of the changes in EHS regulations. However, each stakeholder can have very different needs regarding the data they consume. In our recent webinar, Prepare your EHS strategy for what’s ahead, our EHS expert, Elaine Ye, discussed the key personas who need to be kept in the loop on changing EHS regulations:

• Corporate EHS professionals managing EHS compliance across the organization
• Site-level EHS specialists with responsibility for facilities and operations
• Functional teams like legal, HR, and risk management

Drawing on nearly a decade of experience providing EHS intelligence and insight to industry-leading brands, Elaine discusses their various requirements for EHS data, specific to roles across the business, and demonstrates how Regulatory Forecaster can help support them.

The strategic insights corporate EHS teams need to thrive

“Corporate teams often wear multiple hats and collaborate with different functions within organizations. They need a reliable source of information on regulatory changes and how they could impact the business.”

Corporate EHS teams are often responsible for overseeing compliance across multiple jurisdictions, each with its own complex regulatory framework. Regulations are constantly changing, and it can be hard to keep up. Regulatory Forecaster streamlines this task by empowering EHS professionals to track emerging regulations in more than 400 jurisdictions.

Our content takes the many and varied formats across the globe and standardizes it by applying expert analysis, common formatting, plain language explanations, and a structured categorization schema and taxonomy across all our EHS solutions.

Regulatory Forecaster provides details not just of expected changes but also of potential business impacts. This approach makes monitoring EHS regulations over even a large number of jurisdictions much more straightforward, empowering corporate EHS teams to do more with less and reducing the chance of missing key details. We’ll discuss this approach further in our April 2025 webinar, Leveling up your EHS data.

This combination of clear, actionable data for forward-looking and newly emerging regulatory trends empowers more effective risk mitigation, planning, and decision-making. EHS teams can use data from the proposal, amendment, and discussion phases of key legislation that Regulatory Forecaster provides to:

• Anticipate risks well ahead of time, giving the business more time to respond
• Plan ahead, confident they have the information they need about upcoming changes
• Make informed, future-proof strategic decisions on topics such as Capex, resource allocation, or operational strategy

Regulatory Forecaster replaces countless web portals and publications, often in very different formats, with one standardized format that makes comparing trends and requirements across jurisdictions simple. This aids planning, drives efficiencies, and informs strategic decision-making.

For example, in response to increasing restrictions on air emissions restrictions, an EHS team might advocate for investments such as phasing out high-polluting machinery.

Regulatory Forecaster also helps EHS teams keep other stakeholders in the loop. EHS teams work closely with legal, compliance, facilities, HR, and more. They need to be able to update these other teams on key regulatory developments, assess the impacts on their stakeholders and employees, and align strategies accordingly. The plain-language standardized content in Regulatory Forecaster gives different stakeholders clear, actionable steps around which to collaborate.

The clarity site-level teams need to operate

“As the eyes and ears of corporate teams, the site can also use the regulatory forecaster tool to assess the level of impacts of each regulatory change to prioritize actions based on the site’s risk profile and the resources available.”

Site-level teams specifically focus on EHS regulations in the local jurisdictions in which they operate. They are responsible for ensuring that the day-to-day operations at their site comply with evolving legal requirements. Their needs are, therefore, quite different from corporate EHS experts.

Site-level teams need a customized view that’s tailored to their specific area of focus. Regulatory Forecaster enables this with custom filters that allow users to see just the information they need to see and notifications that alert them to what’s changed. These personalized views also help individual sites to keep track of relevant legal obligations and maintain an up-to-date legal register to fulfill ISO certification needs. 

Site-level teams are often the ‘eyes and ears’ of EHS teams, providing local insights on global regulatory challenges. Regulatory Forecaster facilitates this with powerful collaboration tools that enable sharing and commenting on content. Teams can customize the risk and impact to the level that suits their business. Collaborating, communicating, and discussing learnings about regulatory data that impacts the business promotes knowledge-sharing across the organization and helps ensure alignment between site- and corporate-level teams.

The specific details functional teams need to act

“Uniform formats and taxonomy help cross-functional teams to speak the same language on EHS matters, work together to identify overlapping responsibilities across different disciplines, and drill down further as needed.”

Functional teams, such as HR, legal, or risk management, may also need to know about upcoming EHS developments. However, they also have a different set of needs. Functional team members often lack the deep expertise of an EHS specialist but still need a way to understand the impact of developments that affect their function. Regulatory Forecaster facilitates this with clear, actionable summaries of regulatory developments — highlighting both what’s changing and what the business impacts are likely to be.

Regulatory Forecaster also offers a high degree of flexibility over how organizations want to keep functional teams in the loop about developing EHS regulations. Sharing and collaboration features make it easy for corporate EHS teams to share information with stakeholders who need it.

Many businesses will prefer a self-serve model, which offers additional flexibility, allowing users to update themselves on their own schedule rather than waiting on the EHS team to supply them with details. Regulatory Forecaster enables this too, with enterprise access and customizable views that make it easy for users to find exactly the information they need.

Tailored updates and alerts are also an effective way for functional teams to stay on top of relevant updates and ensure key details aren’t missed. Finally, legal teams will benefit from citations directly to the regulatory text so they can assess risk and provide the appropriate guidance.

A strategic advantage for your entire organization

In short, Regulatory Forecaster provides stakeholders across your organization with the information they need on emerging EHS regulations — in an easy-to-use format that’s accessible even to non-technical users who nevertheless need information about upcoming EHS requirements and the impact they will have on the business. This allows all stakeholders to:

• Act and plan with confidence
• Reduce silos across your organization
• Enable more strategic decision-making

If you’d like to learn more about Regulatory Forecaster, we’d love to talk. Just get in touch with us using the button below to arrange your free consultation and demo.