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Power BI’s powerful trend analysis features allow EHS teams to track key metrics over time, including quantitative data such as injury/incident rates (DART, TRIR, LWDC, etc.) and qualitative results from compliance audits, as well as spatial data. Visualizing trends from this collected data makes it easier to identify patterns and shifts in safety. This comprehensive trend analysis helps companies proactively identify potential hazards before they escalate into serious incidents, aiding in the prevention of accidents, or costly regulatory violations. Additionally, integrating data from multiple sources enhances the accuracy and depth of insights gained. This empowers decision-makers to implement targeted and effective interventions and EHS Management Programs.

Benefits of Power BI Dashboards for EHS Data Analysis: 

1. Proactive Risk Management

With Power BI dashboards, EHS professionals can shift from a reactive to a proactive approach in managing both environmental and safety risks. By analyzing trends in real-time, organizations can identify rising risks—such as increased spikes in workplace injuries, or gaps in compliance—before they lead to more severe consequences. For example, if Power BI shows a pattern of workplace accidents during certain shifts, safety managers can introduce preventive measures to reduce the danger and increase safety.

2. Improved Efficiency and Data Comprehension

At Antea Group, our Business Intelligence team works directly with organizations to visualize large amounts of complex EHS data in an easily digestible format. Traditional reporting methods often involve sifting through spreadsheets or static reports, which can be time-consuming and difficult to interpret.

With Power BI dashboards, key metrics are summarized visually, making it faster and easier for EHS teams to identify and address issues. By streamlining data analysis, Power BI significantly boosts efficiency in tracking safety. For instance, rather than poring over complex spreadsheets, EHS teams can quickly view visual summaries of accident rates or audit results, saving time and enabling quicker responses to any issues that arise.

3. Data-Driven Decision Making

Power BI dashboards provide EHS professionals with the data they need to make informed decisions. Real-time insights into safety incidents, environmental audits, and compliance statuses help organizations allocate resources effectively. For example, if a dashboard reveals that a particular department is consistently falling short in waste management practices, management can take immediate action to address the issue.

4. Regulatory Compliance and Risk Mitigation

Compliance with environmental regulations (e.g., EPA standards, OSHA guidelines) is a critical part of EHS management. Power BI dashboards help organizations stay on top of compliance by providing a clear overview of audit results, regulatory violations, and corrective actions. These dashboards offer an at-a-glance view of compliance metrics, ensuring that safety and environmental protocols are consistently followed.

By continuously monitoring compliance status, organizations can avoid costly fines, penalties, or legal issues. For example, if the dashboard highlights repeated failures in meeting EPA standards, management can take immediate corrective actions to prevent potential fines or penalties.

Conclusion 

Power BI dashboards offer EHS professionals a dynamic and interactive way to monitor and analyze trends in safety performance. By providing real-time data visualization, trend analysis tools, and interactive dashboards, Power BI allows organizations to track key metrics like incident rates, compliance audit results, and any other metric vital to your business.

For organizations looking to enhance their EHS audits, Antea Group can provide comprehensive dashboards so you can fully understand your data.

If you are interested in exploring EHS Data Analytics, reach out to our Business Intelligence team for more information.

Previously published by Forbes

Every April, Earth Day arrives in full color – parks buzzing with volunteers, corporate campuses dotted with tree-planting events, and social feeds flooded with stunning shots of mountains, oceans, and forests. It’s a powerful annual reminder of our planet’s beauty and our responsibility to protect it.

I strongly believe sustainability can’t be a once-a-year priority. Fortunately, most of the customers, partner and colleagues I talk to believe the same – sustainability is becoming a business imperative with environmental factors impacting their day-to-day operations.

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Cummins

The word “archive” is often associated with past, dead things. The preservation of endless stacks of paper files with unintelligible words and video footage wrapped around old projector wheels whose technology is long lost to history. Collections of slides in mislabeled bags and boxes — that seem to dissolve in our very hands — full of trinkets, tchotchkes, and the miscellaneous parts to those trinkets and tchotchkes. Obscure labels, unfamiliar names and irrelevant places that, to the untrained eye, mean little. And all these, we imagine, are being dusted off and sorted by their keeper, the archivist, who is buried below the mountains of past, dead things.

But not Lori.

Cummins Heritage Center’s lead archivist, Lori Ann Lindberg, paints an entirely different picture.

“We are not keepers of dead things,” she informs. “We keep living documents that were created by living human beings that carry information that’s filled with life.”
Lori Ann Lindberg

Archivists, Lori argues, have a way of looking into the future by using objects from the past — something important and timely for a company like Cummins, which continues to push the industry forward with first-of-its-kind technologies and products. Every day, Lori discovers new stories about Cummins’ 106-year history. Many of these reaffirm the values, innovations and aspirations the company continues to uphold and practice today.

One item that has stood out to Lori during her time as Cummins’ archivist is a letter written by J. Irwin Miller, a former president and chairman of Cummins for over 40 years.

Miller was a staunch supporter of civil rights. While serving as the 1963 President of the National Council of Churches, he and the Council co-sponsored Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington. At the time, a potential investor wrote to Miller, expressing displeasure over Cummins’ hiring of people of color and other marginalized groups. In response, Miller firmly stated that he would not stop hiring these individuals — all types of people worked at Cummins, and that was the way it would remain. He emphasized that this diversity contributed to Cummins’ success. Miller concluded his letter by suggesting that the investor should consider placing their money elsewhere.

“That letter resonated with me, and I just got so emotional reading it because it’s at least 70 years old now. It shows that this is Cummins, this is the way Cummins is and the way it’s going to stay,” Lori says. “And it’s one of the things that I love about this company, and the fact that I can keep that evidence is just a point of pride to me.”

If you’ve ever had the privilege of visiting Lori and the Cummins Heritage Center, you know that Lori has a special way of taking you along with her into Cummins’ past. She knows nearly all there is to know about Cummins, though she would refute such a statement and argue that there’s much more she has left to uncover.

The Center is surrounded by — sturdy — boxes of Cummins magazines, training manuals, letters, photos and plaques, with nearly every wall covered in vintage Cummins advertisements, posters and banners. There are tables with old engine schematics and components renderings, and cabinets full of global gifts, pins and paperweights. Just when you think you’ve seen all there is to see, a row of engines, from Cummins’ first to nearly every decade after, leads you toward the restoration side of the Center. It’s here where Cummins’ litany of Indianapolis 500 race cars, a 1938 Cadillac, and a 1935 Auburn, receive their fine-tuning.

But the question remains: how does one become an archivist, much less for a global company?

Lori’s path to becoming an archivist began in music. Lori graduated from Indiana University’s School of Music, now Jacobs School of Music, studying opera theater. Growing up in Indiana, Lori sprang at the opportunity to explore the states and headed to Southern California. After several years in Los Angeles, Lori eventually found her home in San Francisco. It was here that she began working for a record store chain and soon developed a passion for organizing while sorting through crates of music records.

Lori characterizes her career as an archivist as a second birth. “I became a totally different person. And I found that passion,” she says. “I just, you know, I love it.”

That passion led to Lori receiving her Master of Library and Information Science, and for many years, Lori worked at various big corporations as their archivist while teaching scholars the art of archiving. Her work teaching led her to create the first master’s program in the country for Archives and Records Administration.

Eventually, Lori moved back to Indiana and, in 2020, applied for an archivist position at an undisclosed company. She had a feeling, though, that the company was Cummins, as it had just celebrated its centennial anniversary. Lori was right, and the rest was, well, history. Lori began as a contractor before officially joining Cummins full-time in 2023.

“You know everybody when you grow up in Indianapolis, you know — and you know Cummins,” Lori laughs. “My dad was a supervisor for Chrysler at the electrical plant. You didn’t grow up in the automotive industry and not know about Cummins.”

Lori says she can still remember how her dad’s face lit up when the Dodge Ram came out with the Cummins engine. “He was just biting at the bit to drive one of those Dodge Rams. It was the coolest thing. So, I always had a great impression of Cummins from very young.”

Lori may work in Cummins archives, but she doesn’t stay confined to the Heritage Center. She often attends meetings across Cummins’ Business Units, actively hunting for new information to add to the collection. These meetings give her a look into the future, allowing her to stay on the pulse of where Cummins is heading.

According to Lori, the Cummins Heritage Center staff does their best to be truthful in everything they do and collect. They want to portray Cummins’ true story most accurately.

“I hope that the Cummins Heritage Center really reflects the many positive aspects of the company, as well as the great influence of Cummins,” Lori expresses, “not only on its industry through its products but through its people and with its people and on its people.”

When future leaders and archivists are collecting Cummins artifacts, they won’t need a magnifying glass to see that Lori was one of the people whose passion for the company captured and created a legacy.

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Amid the decisions in Europe on corporate sustainability reporting, one requirement has not received much attention: companies submitting a European Sustainability Reporting Standards report (ESRS) to comply with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will need to “tag” each disclosure using a digital language known as XBRL.

If that sentence raised the blood pressure, read on: digital tagging should make life easier for climate and other ESG reporting, not more difficult. It can also ensure that each company’s disclosures have a bigger impact.

To support companies in adapting to the new requirement, G&A Institute and our partners at DFIN have just published a practical guide to digital tagging. The international standard XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a technical format that makes ESG disclosures digital and machine-readable, and therefore more easily comparable with disclosures from other companies. The data thus becomes more actionable for regulators, investors, and other stakeholders.

To get there, organizations must not only ensure compliance with complex sustainability reporting frameworks but also integrate digital reporting processes into their existing financial and regulatory reporting workflows. This requires acquiring expertise in both the subject matter of ESG reporting, as well as becoming comfortable with digital reporting standards and technology. And digital tagging may become a requirement in other jurisdictions beyond the EU, like California and Canada.

Our new resource paper walks through:

• The growing scope and complexity of sustainability reporting and how XBRL helps
• Why XBRL is essential for compliance and investor trust
• Strategic benefits of structuring and tagging ESG data in XBRL even as regulations continue to evolve
• A platform from DFIN – ActiveDisclosure℠ – that streamlines compliance reporting

G&A CEO Co-Founder Louis Coppola explains: “This resource paper is a practical roadmap that merges sustainability strategy with cutting-edge digital compliance tools, so companies don’t just meet requirements and expectations — they get ahead of them.”

If you need help, we are here. G&A and DFIN have partnered to provide companies with a comprehensive solution, combining sustainability reporting expertise with a cutting-edge support system for applying XBRL.

With support from G&A and DFIN, companies can turn the challenges of meeting CSRD requirements into an opportunity to better manage ESG efforts and provide higher-quality ESG information to all stakeholders.For more information contact us at: info@ga-institute.com.

This is just the introduction of G&A’s Sustainability Highlights newsletter this week. Click here to view the full issue.

At Cisco, sustainability is not just a once-a-year commitment – it’s a part of how we help partners in their efforts to make more sustainable, cost-effective decisions every day. Cisco Refresh, one of Cisco’s longest-standing initiatives, is one example of an offering that provides both business and sustainability benefits to customers.

Today, Cisco Refresh continues to be an important part of Cisco’s efforts to evolve to a circular business model. Now in its third decade, Cisco Refresh sells certified, remanufactured Cisco products at lower prices than new ones, but with all the same warranty and service options as them. This extends the useful life cycle of our products and reduces the need for virgin materials – enabling customers to better execute on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and sustainability goals.

For example:

• Customers who choose Cisco Refresh switches or IP phones can realize at least a 60% reduction in embodied carbon emissions compared to purchasing equivalent new products.

Transitioning to a Circular Business Model

Cisco strives to accelerate the transition from a traditional linear economy that extracts resources and eventually wastes them, to a circular one that finds new uses for products and their inputs to minimize waste and optimize resource use.

Cisco Refresh is central to this transformation, complementing our portfolio designed with circularity in mind, including flexible payment and subscription models, to maximize product life cycle value.

We focus our efforts in three core areas:

• Circular Design: Embedding sustainability into how we design our products and packaging from the outset.
• Circular Offerings: Enabling customers and partners to embrace circularity through programs like Cisco Refresh and Cisco Green Pay.
• Recover and Redeploy: Recapturing used hardware to extend product life through reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling.

Driving Business Sustainability: The Cisco Circularity Promotion

We want to enable our customers and partners to benefit from Cisco Refresh. The Cisco Circularity Promotion offers Cisco partners and distributors competitive pricing on certified remanufactured products, including current and end-of-sale items, enhancing cost savings while promoting circular practices.

Since its January 2024 launch, the promotion has:

• Expanded from 576 to over 1,300 remanufactured (-RF) products.
• Simplified and standardized pricing and discounts:
  • 55% discount on Next-Gen Firewall & Network Security
  • 60% discount on Enterprise Switching & Wireless
  • 65% discount on Optics
  • 70% discount on Hyper Converged
  • 75% discount on Edge Routing and Servers
• Expanded from the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East, to the Asia Pacific region, providing worldwide coverage.
• Acquired 474 new partners, indicating strong utilization.
• Increased usage across all customer segments (SMB, Commercial, Public Sector, Service Provider, and Enterprise).

Streamlining Business Operations

We prioritize simplicity alongside sustainability. Enhanced visibility and access to Cisco Refresh inventory include:

• CCW BOT Integration: Partners can now check lead times and stock availability for certified remanufactured equipment (noted with an “-RF” suffix) via the CCW BOT (ccwbot@webex.bot). This helps partners stay informed about any updates to lead times, as often “-RF” products ship faster than new Cisco products, a key insight for planning and managing orders effectively. Partners (1-Tier and 2-Tier) and Distributors can all access the CCW BOT.
• Cisco Refresh Inventory Visibility API: This enhanced API provides real-time access to in-stock remanufactured products that are ready to be ordered now. Partners leveraging this capability can maximize their Cisco Refresh blend, which can positively impact their margins. Please view the API implementation guidelines here.

This Earth Day and every day, Cisco is proud to empower our partners and customers with the tools to help save money, reduce waste, conserve resources, and operate more sustainably.

If you’re interested in learning more firsthand, Cisco Refresh will be featured in the Purpose Pavilion at the upcoming Cisco Live in San Diego, CA (June 9-12, 2025), so come by and speak to representatives for our team!

To learn more about our circular economy transformation, visit our Purpose Reporting Hub.

For general questions about Cisco Refresh, please email our team at refreshquestions@cisco.com.

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AMSTERDAM and HONG KONG and OAKLAND, Calif., May 8, 2025 /3BL/ – Cascale, the global nonprofit alliance empowering collaboration to drive equitable and restorative business practices in the consumer goods industry, and Worldly, the leading supply chain sustainability data insights platform, today released a new policy deep dive: Navigating Regulation and Building Resilience: Key Trends in Corporate Supply Chain Responsibility for APAC in 2025.

This report examines the growing trend of climate- and supply chain-related regulations across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and their implications for global brands, manufacturers, and suppliers. Released ahead of the Cascale Forum: Ho Chi Minh City, taking place on May 14–15, the analysis provides key insights that can inform conversations on regulatory readiness, facility-level data, and regional leadership.

The urgency of these shifts is underscored by the region’s exposure to climate risk,” said Elisabeth von Reitzenstein, senior director of policy and public affairs at Cascale. “The APAC region is home to the majority of the world’s 100 most environmentally at-risk cities. Our industry has a responsibility—and an opportunity—to lead in shaping more resilient, transparent supply chains. This deep dive is designed to equip our members with the foresight to do exactly that.”

In addition to spotlighting major national and international regulatory developments, the deep dive outlines clear recommendations for companies, including how to invest in localized data systems, set science-based targets, and build stronger brand-manufacturer partnerships.

As part of its expanded focus on the APAC region, Cascale plans to launch a new APAC Policy Member Expert Team (MET) in 2025, which will advise on regulatory priorities and help shape the organization’s advocacy efforts across the region. Cascale also continues to work closely with local industry associations such as VITAS and BGMEA to support members in navigating compliance and aligning with policy momentum.

“We’re committed to amplifying local voices and building policy alignment from the ground up,” said Howard Kwong, senior manager of public affairs, APAC at Cascale. “This deep dive is part of a broader effort to equip our members in and sourcing from the APAC region with the insight, partnerships, and tools needed to lead in a shifting global landscape.”

Tools such as the Higg Index continue to play a critical role in enabling companies to meet emerging regulatory and buyer expectations, offering standardized, facility-level data on environmental and social performance.

To build resilient, future-ready businesses, companies must look beyond compliance and deeply understand the policy shifts unfolding across the Asia-Pacific region,” said JR Siegel, vice president, sustainability at Worldly. “As APAC governments move from voluntary guidance to mandatory regulation, the leading companies of tomorrow will be the ones that invest in transparency, climate adaptation, and clean energy today. This paper is a call to action for businesses to treat these policy changes as an opportunity to shape the future of responsible commerce.”

This publication builds on previous Cascale and Worldly policy deep dives, including reports on the EU’s CS3D and IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards. It reflects the organizations’ ongoing commitment to delivering expert insight, regional engagement, and practical support to help the consumer goods industry meet its sustainability and compliance goals.

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Get expert analysis, regional insights, and strategic recommendations to help your company meet evolving expectations and build resilience in the world’s most dynamic manufacturing region.

ABOUT CASCALE

Cascale is the global nonprofit alliance empowering collaboration to drive equitable and restorative business practices in the consumer goods industry. Formerly known as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Cascale owns and develops the Higg Index, which is exclusively available on Worldly, the most comprehensive sustainability data and insights platform. Cascale unites over 300 retailers, brands, manufacturers, governments, academics, and NGO/nonprofit affiliates around the globe through one singular vision: To catalyze impact at scale and give back more than we take to the planet and its people. LinkedIn | X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

ABOUT WORLDLY

Worldly is the planet’s leading sustainability data insights platform, trusted by 40,000+ major brands, retailers, and manufacturers in fashion, outdoor, home goods, toys, and more. Worldly uniquely collects high-resolution primary data specific to companies’ value chains, operations, and products, providing insight into true impacts across carbon, water, chemistry, and labor. Featuring the most comprehensive source of ESG data for global manufacturers and the largest library of materials and product impacts, Worldly empowers businesses to scale responsibility into their global operations, faster and more accurately. Hosting, connecting with, and supporting the leading industry solutions and methodologies including ZDHC, Bluesign, and the Higg Index — developed and owned by the global nonprofit alliance Cascale — Worldly delivers the insights businesses need to reduce their impact, comply with emerging regulatory and financial disclosure requirements, and meet the expectations of a new generation of customers. worldly.io

In a powerful demonstration of how industrial growth and environmental stewardship can go hand in hand, DP World has been recognized at Brazil’s Federal Environmental Licensing Forum for its long-running Aquatic Fauna Monitoring Program. Hosted by Ibama — the country’s national environmental agency — the event spotlighted the company’s science-based conservation efforts at the Port of Santos, where DP World operates one of its most advanced terminals.

Since launching the program in 2013, DP World has prioritized biodiversity protection as a cornerstone of its operations in Brazil. The initiative is part of the company’s broader sustainability strategy, Our World, Our Future, and exemplifies how ports and marine ecosystems can coexist, when backed by rigorous research and a long-term commitment to environmental integrity.

With a total investment of nearly BRL 12 million in over 30 environmental projects since terminal construction began in 2006, the company has made science-backed conservation a core part of its operations.

One of the most notable aspects of the program is the monitoring of benthic communities—organisms that live on the sea floor, including those that have colonized the submerged pillars supporting the terminal’s quay. Over 11 years, 49 campaigns have been conducted, totaling 98 hours of underwater research. Scientists recorded 38 distinct marine species, providing invaluable data on the ecological succession and biodiversity of the port’s marine environment.

Fabio Siccherino, CEO of DP World in Brazil, said: “Balancing economic development with sustainability is part of our DNA. Since construction began, we’ve maintained rigorous environmental monitoring, ensuring that our operations go hand in hand with marine life preservation, reaffirming our commitment to ecosystem conservation and the responsible conduct of our business.”

The results are clear: new marine habitats have formed on port structures, seasonal changes have influenced biodiversity, and the presence of invasive species has been documented alongside native fauna. These insights contribute to a growing body of research on how industrial infrastructure can support rather than harm marine ecosystems when carefully managed.

The program’s success earned DP World one of only 13 presentation slots at the national forum, a gathering aimed at sharing effective mitigation and compensation efforts within federally licensed projects.

“Our program not only ensures the ecological integrity of the local marine environment but also makes an important contribution to global best practices for impact monitoring and mitigation in large port developments,” added Siccherino.

The program will be officially recognized with a certification from Ibama, confirming that DP World has met and exceeded requirements tied to its environmental licensing—offering a compelling model for how industry can align with nature.

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