Success Cases
Client: Ecolab
How ZYGHT Transformed HSE Management at Ecolab
For Ecolab - a global leader in water, hygiene, and energy technologies and services - the main challenge was to optimize and digitize its HSE management processes to respond more quickly to challenges related to sustainability and operational efficiency.
Industry: Water, Hygiene, and Energy Technologies and Services.
Headquarters: Saint Paul, USA.
Organization Size: Over 10,000 employees.
About Ecolab
With over 90 years of experience, Ecolab is dedicated to providing smart and sustainable solutions. Its focus is on ensuring water safety and quality, providing treatments and management programs, developing cleaning and hygiene solutions to maintain healthy and safe environments across various industries, and offering energy management services to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact.
The Challenge: Improving Response to Sustainability and Operational Efficiency Challenges.
Before the implementation of ZYGHT, Ecolab's HSE management was performed using basic tools from the Office suite. This method was inefficient and consumed an unnecessary amount of man-hours. Ricardo Lasprilla, Sales Manager, indicated that the "post-mortem" management took between 30 and 45 days, which was critical for the operation.
Ecolab needed a solution that automated its processes to provide a faster response to its internal and external customers. The recommendation of Codelco, the world's largest copper producer and an Ecolab customer, was decisive for the adoption of ZYGHT. Codelco demonstrated the effectiveness of the ZYGHT platform in great detail, facilitating Ecolab's decision.
The Solution
One of Ecolab's strategic goals is to integrate safety into the operational line in real time, allowing staff in hazardous situations to make optimal decisions dynamically, using ZYGHT's mobile app.
Additionally, another important goal for Ecolab is to continue reducing the man-hours dedicated to safety management. With ZYGHT, the automation of tasks and processes has freed up resources and time previously allocated to manual and repetitive work. Finally, Ecolab continues working to improve its Safety Culture, an aspect that Ricardo Lasprilla emphasizes. For Ricardo, the best way for a person to understand and practice safety is to "live it," which can only be achieved by experiencing it in daily practice with platforms like ZYGHT that facilitate this management.
The Result
ZYGHT has fostered the active participation of Ecolab's employees by providing access to relevant information, training, and resources to improve their knowledge and awareness of safety. This has contributed to creating a safety culture in the organization, where safety is everyone's responsibility, not just that of the risk preventionist.
Safety support tools like ZYGHT promote a culture where safety is a priority for everyone, thus strengthening the protection and prevention of accidents and occupational risks.
In short, ZYGHT has positively impacted the strategic safety planning of Ecolab by automating tools and processes. This allows workers to make optimal decisions in real time. Ricardo maintains that working on safety is a key component in strategic planning, as the more high-quality activities are recorded, the closer the organization is to generating a solid safety culture.
The implementation of ZYGHT at Ecolab has meant a substantial improvement in strategic safety planning. ZYGHT has allowed the strategic safety department to work with predetermined indicators and has aligned the automation of tools with the current digital era, which optimizes the process.
Summary
Challenge: Optimize and digitize HSE management to improve the response to sustainability and operational efficiency challenges.
Results:
- Implementation of ZYGHT to automate and optimize safety processes.
- Integration of safety into the operational line in real time, allowing for dynamic and optimal decisions.
- Significant reduction in man-hours dedicated to safety management.
- Strengthening of the Safety Culture throughout the organization.
Impact:
- "Post-mortem" safety management was reduced from 30-45 days to an almost immediate response thanks to automation with ZYGHT.
- Ecolab has achieved active and improved participation of all employees in the safety culture, breaking the paradigm that safety is only the responsibility of the risk preventionist.
- The implementation of ZYGHT has allowed Ecolab to be closer to generating a solid safety culture, with continuous improvement in the quality of registered activities.