Purolator is one of Canada’s most recognized and trusted logistics and courier companies. With 176 operations facilities and 104 shipping centres across Canada, its national presence is undeniable. But they go beyond being a large company, as its slogan says: “It’s not a package. It’s a promise®” reflecting their serious commitment to reliability with their delivery service.
But Purolator cannot deliver on its promise without its workforce. They aim to foster a people-first culture to strongly focuses on employee development. However, this is not an easy task for a company with over 13,000 employees across Canada and the U.S.
Its promise to deliver its service is highly dependent on their workforce’s health and safety. How can a transportation and logistics company improve its EHS to keep their employees safe? This is where Sodales comes in, helping to deliver on their promise by transforming their safety culture with a modern integrated EHS system.
Purolator’s EHS Challenges
Purolator was using a legacy EHS platform that did not support Purolator’s growth needs. Flexibility, user-experience and leadership goals such as analytical reporting were among the challenges. Despite years of investment in making the legacy platform work for their growing needs, the platform did not meet expectations and continued to become expensive due to custom coding.
Purolator’s challenges are no different from those of any other company in high-risk environments like vehicle operations, oil & gas, utilities and mining or manufacturing and retail face when managing their EHS with legacy systems.
Some existing systems may present challenges such as limited user experience, delayed updates, complex approval workflows, insufficient alignment with local regulations and reduced visibility into health and safety incidents
But the challenges go beyond internal policies and procedures. The real challenges are:
- Meeting Safety and Compliance Demands: Ensure workforce protection while staying aligned with strict federal and provincial regulatory standards.
- Data Integration to Improve Operational Efficiency: Empower managers to proactively identify and mitigate risks.
- Increase Employee Accountability and Engagement for over thousands of employees, many in physically demanding roles with different needs and risks.
- Scalability to support future growth: A platform that allows easy onboarding and offboarding of new employees and functionality-extensibility.
As mentioned, these challenges are not unique to Purolator, they are common across high-risk and highly regulated organizations today. However, Purolator’s people-first culture has enabled the organization to face these challenges with advanced tools that empower its workforce to deliver the company’s promise.
Transforming Purolator’s EHS Through Sodales’ Integrated Platform
With Sodales’s efficiency, Purolator empowers managers to make more informed and confident decisions with access to the incidents relevant to the team, specific to their role; a user-friendly user interface with fewer clicks to access the right information, with reporting and real-time data dashboards.
Moreover, managers can now see the corrective actions related to specific incidents, manage different types of incidents in one place, track return-to-work and absences, proactively collaborate with insurance companies and investigators and ensure the right closure of workflows while staying compliant during the whole process.
The outcomes are clear:
- Proactive safety management with real-time updates and notifications.
- Higher productivity through effective incident resolution.
- Reduced complexity in approval processes, reducing delays.
- Enhanced visibility into safety metrics for better decision-making.
- Seamless collaboration among different teams, such as HR, legal, operations, safety, etc.
- Improved compliance tracking and reporting.
- Easier adoption of the intuitive platform.
With Sodales, Purolator is true to its people-first culture while delivering its promise to customers.
Transform your EHS Management with Sodales’ Integrated Platform
For HR leaders in high-risk environments, Sodales is the only platform that integrates EHS and employee relations with real-time data updates that empower high-risk organizations to focus on ensuring a safe, compliant workplace.
Sodales is not only software, but a strategic partner to manage your EHS. Built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), trusted by more than 5 million users globally and prestigious brands with international presence, Sodales is the only single integrated platform powered by AI, designed especially for handling health, safety and employee relations in complex and highly regulated environments.
With Sodales, organizations can protect the most valuable asset, their people, by:
- Managing incidents and disability claims in one place and in compliance with requirements.
- Accommodating medical and religious cases to create an inclusive, compliant and supportive workplace with end-to-end medical and religious job accommodation case management.
- Proactively addressing risks in operations, safety and labor relations with real-time analytics and reports for risk detection.
- Maintain compliance and promote safer work environments by documenting, tracking, and resolving corrective actions from Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) meetings that are fully aligned with regulatory standards through effective JHSC management.
With Sodales, your workforce feels confident that their wellbeing is a priority, while your organization stays compliant with regulatory requirements.
The success of your operations depends on the well-being of your talent. Don’t manage them with outdated tools. Guarantee them a people-first culture in an organization that deeply cares for them.
Book a demo today to learn how Sodales can transform your legacy EHS with a modern, integrated EHS.
