Environment, Health and Safety Legislation Hub

The Ibec EHS Legislation Update service is relevant to businesses of all sizes and engaged in any activity which has imposed duty of care and legislative responsibilities. Those who would find the service extremely helpful are professionals in the following areas:

• Environment
• Health & Safety
• Compliance
• Regulatory Affairs
• Sustainability
• ESG

The Hub provides a complete list and summary of EHS legislation from which each subscriber can identify those areas that are directly and indirectly relevant to their activities

Sectors that benefit from using our Hub include: 

• Pharma
• Food
• Drink
• Construction
• Telecoms
• Manufacturing
• Plastics
• Packaging
• Metals
• Mining
• Waste
• Energy
• Transport / Shipping / Aviation
• Fuels
• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Engineering
• Environmental
• Health Care
• Supply Industry

All companies have a legal obligation to comply with existing legislation. In addition, a number of Environment and H&S management standards require companies to identify, maintain and update a list of relevant legislation.

From ISO 14001 - Environmental Management System Standard:

4.3.2 Legal and other requirements

The organisation shall establish, implement and maintain a procedure(s)

a) To identify and have access to the applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which the organisation subscribes related to its environmental aspects, and

b) To determine how these requirements apply to its environmental aspects.

From ISO 45001: 2018- Occupational health and safety Management

6.1.3 Determination of Legal Register and Other Requirements

Establish, implement and maintain a process to determine and have access to up to date legal requirements

Establish, implement and maintain a process to determine legal requirements apply to the company

Establish, implement and maintain a process to take there legal requirement into account

Maintain and retain documented, information on legal requirements

Ensure documented information is updated

From I.S. EN 16001:2009 Energy Management Standard

Step 6: Identify and evaluate legal obligations and other requirements

One of the important clauses of I.S. EN 16001 is that organisations ensure they comply with all energy related legislation and other requirements which are applicable to their energy aspects

The Ibec EHS Legislation Hub provides subscribers with a list of EHS legislation, a short summary of the main implications of this legislation and the relevance to the subscribing company.

Subscribers can view this information on all legislation, but only select that which is relevant to their activities. When you have identified the legislation relevant to your activities you can generate a pdf register of your selection.

When you have made your initial selection of relevant legislation you can access and amend this at any stage. This will allow you to amend your list of relevant legislation as your own activities change.

The EHS Legislation Hub helps companies to:

Identify EHS legislation relevant to their activities

Understand the implications of this legislation

Keep abreast of the most recent changes to EHS legislation

Comply with recognised EHS management systems

There are three parts to the hub:

Irish Environment:

This service is driven by requirements such as IED and IPC licensing, environmental management systems e.g. ISO 14001 and EMAS, corporate audits and environmental liability.

Irish Health and Safety

This service meets the growing need for integrated environmental health and safety systems to ensure compliance with health & safety legislation and certification such as ISO 45001.

EU Environment

In order to be fully compliant with all its legislative requirements, businesses needs to be aware of environmental legislation made by the institutions of the European Union, which does not require Irish transposing legislation in order to have effect. This service concentrates on environmental EU Regulations which are directly applicable in Ireland and place legally binding requirements on Irish companies.

Subscribers will receive a monthly email update including a detailed list of all new EHS legislation which have been added to the EHS Hub.

• A list and summary of relevant new legislation.
• A brief description of the implications of the legislation.
• Each of these pieces of legislation can be viewed on-line and identified as 'relevant' or 'not relevant' to your company.
• Based on your selection a single document can be generated to create a list and give details of all legislation relevant to your activities.
• When you have done this for the first time this selection will remain when you log-in at a later date.

This allows you to update your selection as your company activities change.

How much does the service cost?

The service is an annual subscription and cost is based on number of users within your company.

For 1-5 users access the cost is €1270 (excluding VAT) per company.

For 6-10 users access the cost is €1590 (excluding VAT) per company.

The service is invoiced on the calendar year.

Price includes the following:

• Usage of this facility for the calendar year.
• Twelve email updates of documents that have been added/updated to the Legislation Hub database.