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ENSR and Citation Technologies Launch New International EHS Audit Protocol Platform
Field-Tested Global EHS Regulatory Knowledge Now Available Online
| Source: Citation Technologies
WESTFORD, MA--(Marketwire - September 16, 2008) - ENSR's International Audit Protocol Consortium
(IAPC®) has joined forces with Citation Technologies to create a powerful
compliance assurance and regulatory research tool -- "IAPC® Interactive."
ENSR, part of AECOM, is a leading global environmental management firm that
manages the IAPC, a group of 80 multinational companies with world-class
environmental, health and safety (EHS) audit programs.
Using Citation Technology's web-based knowledge platform, IAPC®
Interactive provides on-demand access to regulatory overviews and detailed
questionnaires that focus on country-specific EHS requirements. The
platform provides user-friendly tools to identify, review, and document
sections of the protocols that apply to specific facilities. This system
simplifies and improves the evaluation of a facility's regulatory
compliance, while reducing research costs.
Through the IAPC®, ENSR develops EHS audit protocols for 35 jurisdictions
worldwide. IAPC® protocols are recognized as best-in-class, vetted by
hundreds of audit practitioners over 12 years of use in the field. "The
IAPC® protocols... provide our audit team members with an accurate,
consistent means of interpreting sometimes complex international regulatory
requirements," said Chris Milici, Manager, Environment, Health & Safety for
Textron, Inc.
"We are pleased to be able to offer the vast resources of IAPC's global
regulatory knowledge base in an easy-to-use, powerful solution," said
Halley Moriyama, Director of IAPC®. "The world-class platform provided
by Citation allows us to offer our customers a unique solution for issues
commonly encountered when auditing regulatory compliance across
multinational enterprises."
The new service delivers the entirety of IAPC's EHS audit protocols in a
collaborative portal, which enables teams to efficiently build and share
institutional knowledge at far lower cost than available alternatives.
Existing systems can use the structured content via export or integration.
"Auditing is a lengthy, complicated process, so we are more than happy to
offer a solution to help simplify it," says John Vitale, Vice President,
Citation Technologies. "The depth and breadth of the IAPC protocol content
is more accessible and useable via the Internet, rather than hard copy
binders and PDF documents. The incorporation of our technology enables
audit team members to reduce the time and effort to analyze the protocols
and ensure that all team members have the same understanding of the
requirements."
For more information, visit http://iapcinteractive.com.
About ENSR
ENSR, part of AECOM, is a leading worldwide environmental management firm
serving industrial clients and government agencies with 2,600 employees
from 90 global offices. ENSR provides comprehensive consulting,
engineering, remediation, and environmental health and safety (EHS)
management solutions and has completed thousands of compliance audits
around the world. ENSR is the recipient of numerous industry, client EHS,
business achievement and organizational innovation awards. For more
information, please visit: www.ensr.aecom.com
About Citation Technologies
Citation Technologies Inc. is a software technology and services company
that helps businesses collect, organize, and distribute information in the
form of structured documents. Citation develops and markets a knowledge
base platform in the form of a software-as-a-service (SaaS). The company
uses this platform to develop and market subscription-based
application-specific knowledge bases. The first application-specific
knowledge base, CyberRegs, now sets the standard for Internet libraries of
state, federal, and international regulations, laws, and supporting
information serving the environmental and health and safety compliance
community. More information on Citation Technologies can be found at
www.citationtechnologies.com