SHD's International Compliance Services include assessment, auditing, compliance management, and regulatory tracking of a broad range of environmental and occupational health and safety categories.

SHD currently operates in more than 25 countries through its network of in-country associates, where we manage the day-to-day workplace labor, safety, and environmental issues at 21 facilities.  SHD has also performed Due Diligence Assignments in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and our staff has audited operations in more than 35 countries.

SHD tracks the environmental and workplace safety regulations of 57 countries, and the status of numerous global initiatives on a quarterly basis to identify new or emerging compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility related issues that could affect the operation and expansion of facilities. SHD has published individual Country Regulatory Compliance and Audit Protocols for use by our clients for 40 countries or provinces.  SHD also conducts research of specific regulatory requirements in several languages, including Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish and German.

Our international clients include telecommunications, computer components, pharmaceuticals, automotive-components, household products, aviation, food industry and general manufacturing sector businesses, for which we have performed in-plant inspections; the evaluation of compliance with parent company requirements and with applicable local governmental standards; facility audits; specific EH&S Program Development and Implementation at the facility and corporate levels; staff outsourcing and management; and training.

SHD can assist its clients remotely, or on-site, in the deployment of auditing and compliance systems. SHD develops and implements cost-effective auditing programs and reporting systems, based on the evaluation of corporate risk and priorities, and the use of web-based tools to obtain and report on information regarding foreign and remote facilities.

Representative SHD Projects:

• International Regulatory Protocol Development, Various Countries, for Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. (ORC). SHD provides ORC and its membership firms with regulatory summaries for environmental and occupational health and safety laws and regulations for more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. These summaries of local laws and regulations, and an auditing checklist, are being used by several Fortune 500 US-based multi-national firms with operations in many of these countries. SHD also provides ORC and its members with a regulatory alert update service that details new and emerging issues in the fields of environmental stewardship, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and climate-change legislation, in addition to the more traditional environmental and health and safety laws and regulations.
• Regulatory Compliance Auditing and Litigation Support, Australian Meat Employees Union. SHD was retained to provide Health & Safety (H&S) support to poultry processing and meat packing facilities located in Australia and New Zealand. The project initially involved a comprehensive review of applicable global EH&S standards both within Australia and New Zealand, as well as other first world countries with similar facilities. This review included a detailed evaluation of the existing written H&S Policies and Procedures for each of approximately 10 individual corporations that owned the poultry processing and meat packing facilities. The review focused on injury and illness data, and the correlation of this data with existing programs designed to mitigate identified risks. Following the initial review, over a 12-month period, SHD systematically evaluated each individual facility for compliance with in-country H&S regulatory requirements, conducted an analysis of the program management system developed by each facility to meet expected H&S goals and objectives, and produced a detailed report to each facility.
• International Environmental, Health & Safety Protocol Development and Auditing Support, United Technologies Corporation (UTC). SHD was retained to develop regulatory compliance protocols for environmental, health and safety regulations for manufacturing facilities in Europe (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Ukraine, Finland and Italy) and in Southeast Asia (Vietnam and Taiwan). SHD provided UTC with a detailed summary of each country's existing EH&S laws and regulations relating to manufacturing operations, and developed an auditing checklist for compliance verification. SHD also participated in performing audits of UTC's international operations, as well as in conducting an assessment of selected process lines with high accident rates to understand the root cause of the incidents, and to help UTC develop a method to prevent future accidents. SHD was directly responsible for evaluation of all Asian facilities, through the provision of both US-based and in-country personnel. This included involvement in fatality reviews for Chinese operations at the request of the company CEO. Our success in the Asian region led to the expansion of services to include all international and domestic operations.
• Development of a Web-Based International EH&S Management System, Pfizer Corporation.  On behalf of Pfizer, SHD developed a web-based EH&S management system for more than 750 worldwide distribution, office, and sales and support facilities in more than 60 countries, on all continents, to evaluate risks that were not previously addressed by the Facility and EH&S management structure. SHD developed a series of questionnaires to which facilities could respond via a web-based portal, to gain an understanding of each facility's basic operations, systems, potential risks, staffing, level of training, and staff competency with handling of various risks. These surveys, supported by selected physical in-facility audits to confirm the web-based survey results, allowed for the development of new programs for sustainable risk management systems to be implemented across the globe. As part of this program SHD implemented a fast-tracked knowledge-transfer program to improve EHS performance at international facilities. By utilizing a combination of web-based tools and focused audits, SHD was able to quickly transfer corporate requirements and model programs from other international facilities to on-site staff.
• Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Support (including On-Site Staffing) for Sensata Technologies. SHD has responsibility for the strategic development and implementation of corporate safety, industrial hygiene and workers' compensation programs; the development and oversight of EH&S audit program; and development and implementation of EH&S training initiatives, globally. As part of this program, SHD designed and implemented a worldwide EH&S EMS; coordinated roll-out of an EH&S EMS program with international counterparts; developed procedures, practices and technical standards to assist in the implementation of a corporate EH&S policy and management system; and established numerical goals and objectives as well as methods, to acquire data and track performance against goals. SHD also directed development and implementation of worldwide multi-media audit program to assess implementation of the EH&S management system, and led corporate-wide EH&S training initiatives ranging from needs assessment to assessing program effectiveness. SHD provides continued management direction to all international facilities and provides for on-site staffing in domestic locations. International locations addressed in the program include facilities in The Netherlands, China, Brazil, Malaysia, Japan, Hungary, Dominican Republic, Korea and Mexico.
• Worldwide Facility Evaluation Program, Texas Instruments (TI). SHD was selected as project manager for TI's facility evaluation program. In this role SHD provided detailed assessments of EHS performance at 8 facilities located in the USA and Asia. SHD identified areas for improvement and provided technical assistance to these facilities through the development of a uniform standard for EH&S awareness and training to all international employees. SHD provided in-country personnel for translation services, and the training of in-country facility personnel in Europe and Asia.
• Development of a uniform standard for EH&S awareness and training, Novellus Systems Inc. SHD developed EHS awareness training programs in the local languages for 8 countries and then provided in-country personnel and training of all personnel in their Europe and Asia facilities.