Teck Resources: Environmental Compliance & EHS Software

Client

Teck Resources

Industry

Mining

Technologies

ASP, SQL Server, Access

Overview

Project highlights

Tag In/OutPersonnel designate and empower alternates when they're away.
Tasks that escalateOverdue tasks are prioritized and escalated.
Training by roleRequirements tied to each role's competencies.
A training time machineShift all timed activities forward or backward to practice realistic scenarios.

Before

The challenge

Teck Resources, a global mining company based in Canada, needed an Environmental Management Information System (EMIS) to manage compliance and prioritize critical workflow.

The system had to assign environmental compliance and EHS responsibilities across primary and alternate roles, track training and competency, centralize legal requirements, and manage complex, prioritized task assignments, all within a busy operation where roles and responsibilities shift.

After

What we built

J Street built SiteLine, a role-based environmental, health and safety (EHS) management system. It generates environmental worksheets and compliance matrices, prioritizes and escalates overdue tasks, tracks completion at every level, and integrates with ISO 14001 document control such as QualTrax or SharePoint.

Supervisors and other personnel use My SiteLine for day-to-day EHS management and reporting. The Task component handles compliance and task management at every level of the organization, the Corrective Action Program covers environmental, health, and safety incidents along with corrective and preventive action plans, and the Audit Command Center manages resolution of audit findings.

Every person must have or share a primary role, and the SiteLine Command Center assigns roles and controls access to each part of the system. An Access-based Administration Tool lets selected personnel configure virtually every aspect of SiteLine.

Inside the system

A closer look

My SiteLine

SiteLine is a comprehensive environmental, health and safety (EHS) management system. Supervisors and other personnel who have routine access to computers are provided access to My SiteLine for active day-to-day EHS management activities and reporting.

Tag In/Out

The Tag In/Out feature was designed to handle the shifting of environmental roles and responsibilities within a busy operation. Even for facilities that do not operate in shifts or where roles do not frequently change, the application allows operations personnel to designate and empower their alternates when away on weekends, business trips or vacations.

Compliance and task management

The Task component of SiteLine provides a powerful data-driven compliance and task management tool that operates at all levels within an organization.

Task Command Center

The Task Command Center provides a robust database administration tool to input, manage, and maintain compliance and task data for use by SiteLine.

Reporting incidents

The Corrective Action Program component includes the ability to report environmental incidents, as well as health and safety incidents.

Corrective Action Program Command Center

The Corrective Action Program Command Center provides a tool to manage incidents, corrective action plans, preventive action plans, and allows the user to generate reports for current and historical events.

Audit Command Center

The Audit Command Center provides a tool to manage resolution of compliance and EHS non-conformance audit findings.

Training by role

The Training component of SiteLine provides the ability to enter and track training requirements for personnel at all levels within an organization based on individual role competencies and their related training modules.

Training Command Center

The Training Command Center is a robust application that provides the ability to manage and maintain training requirements from a single location.

SiteLine Command Center

The SiteLine Command Center is an administrative tool to manage and maintain critical functions of SiteLine. It provides the ability to assign personnel one or more roles within the application and it controls access to the various components of SiteLine. The function of SiteLine is highly dependent upon the accurate assignment of roles to personnel within the organization. Roles are defined as Primary or alternate. All personnel are required to have or share a primary role.

Administration Tool

The SiteLine Administration Tool is an Access client-server database application to manage and maintain many system values, lookup tables and status codes for SiteLine. It provides the ability for selected personnel to maintain and configure virtually every aspect of SiteLine.

Training Tool time machine

The SiteLine Training Tool is a database application to manage complex scenarios for training users in the proper usage of SiteLine. Since so much of SiteLine is time and date sensitive, the Training Tool provides a time machine ability to shift all timed activities forward or backward relative to the current system date.

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The outcome

How it turned out

The system organized massive amounts of environmental data so Teck's impact could be tracked and limited.
It was designed with future use in certifying and approving new mining operations in mind.
Compliance and EHS responsibilities are assigned across primary and alternate roles.
Incidents, corrective actions, audits, and training are managed in one system.
It integrates with ISO 14001 document control such as QualTrax or SharePoint.

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