Environmental, health, and safety (EHS) departments, also called SHE or HSE departments, are entities commonly found within companies that consider environmental protection, occupational health, and safety at work as important as providing quality products, and which therefore have managers and departments responsible for these issues. EHS management has two general objectives: prevention of incidents or accidents that might result from abnormal operating conditions on the one hand and reduction of adverse effects that result from normal operating conditions on the other hand...
The corporate EHS function, which oversees environmental, health, and safety compliance began to merge at the management level around 1990.