Ensuring a safe workplace

What is the outcome?

EcoOnline contributes to good health and well-being (SDG 3) by facilitating a safer workplace through control and handling of chemicals and incidents. Handling chemicals correctly also reduces the negative environmental impact of hazardous emissions (SDG 12). By combining high-end technology (like AI and machine learning) with the flexibility that lies in user-experience design, EcoOnline delivers a user-friendly tool tailored to fit every need in the market. The EcoOnline Platform delivers a flexible offering for all segments and markets where the customer can grow organically within a system of wide variety of applications and services with similar design and build. The outcome is increased employee engagement and productivity (SDG 8).

Who are the stakeholders?

EcoOnline's safety and chemical management solutions help companies in the Nordics, UK and Ireland by providing safer working conditions for its employees and reducing negative impact on the environment.

How big is the effect, and does it last?

With low churn (<4%) and a constantly growing customer base (839 new customers in 2019, growing the base to +6,000) EcoOnline was able to conduct 2.9 m risk assessments in 2019. Risk assessments minimize the potential of workplace injuries, illnesses and accidents occurring by reviewing and recommending control measures. Further, knowledge and education are key to create sustainable, safe and healthy working environment. By offering a complete educational platform, from classic classroom courses, to events, seminars and webinars, EcoOnline has contributed to build and increase employee engagement through knowledge. By introducing webinars, more than 6,000 additional workers participated in the courses during 2019, versus 2018.

If EcoOnline didn’t exist…

The company has an unmatched position in the Nordics; 20 years of history, strong local knowledge, and efforts in R&D have resulted in multiple benefits for companies, their employees and local environment, that potentially would not have otherwise been present if it were not for EcoOnline. In that case, that would imply higher costs and less efficient and unsafe workplaces not compliant with regulations.

Impact risk: what can go wrong?

Risks of EcoOnline not delivering the desired impact include less usage of the platform, stagnating growth in new customers, technological complications and loss of local know-how. These risks are underpinned by the strong link between operational success and impact.