ERM, a global sustainability consultancy, has entered into a strategic partnership with Ecolumix, a US-based provider of environmental, health and safety (EHS) data intelligence and benchmarking.
The collaboration aims to help organisations strengthen regulatory compliance, improve operational performance and better manage environmental and safety risks by combining ERM’s EHS advisory expertise with Ecolumix’s large-scale data analytics capabilities.
Ecolumix analyses EHS data across millions of facilities and hundreds of performance indicators, enabling companies to identify operational outliers, track performance trends and benchmark results against industry peers.
The partnership comes as companies face rising regulatory scrutiny and increasing transparency around environmental and safety performance, driven by publicly available data and advances in AI-enabled analytics.
Through the collaboration, organisations will be able to assess EHS performance across enterprise and facility levels, identify regulatory risks, target audits more effectively and evaluate supplier and vendor risks that could affect operations or brand reputation.
Ramesh Narasimhan, Global Managing Partner for Safe & Sustainable Operations at ERM, said the partnership responds to growing demand for EHS benchmarking. He said it will help clients “see how they compare against peers, understand performance variability across operations and turn those insights into targeted EHS improvements.”
Doug Parker, CEO of Ecolumix, said the collaboration will help companies extract greater value from their EHS data. He said combining Ecolumix’s analytics with ERM’s technical expertise would help organisations “prioritise resources, reduce regulatory and reputational risk and drive real improvement at the facility level.”
