Existing service
PROMIS® is highly intuitive multilingual and multi-country knowledge and compliance management vehicle enabling SMEs to comply with Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) Regulations. As a subscription-based service, PROMIS® helps SMEs to deal with a complex regulatory environment, to structure processes and data in a systematic way, and to achieve de facto compliance with legal requirements and the major international Standards for Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety management.
PROMIS® is the result of former R&D and deployment projects funded by the EC Innovation and SMEs and eTEN Programmes. As an output, currently PROMIS® is a Web-based service (http://www.promis.eu/) supporting effective and efficient management which provides the solution for:
- controlling organisational performance
- structuring and ordering documentation in an integrated electronic handbook which complies with ISO, EMAS, OHS environmental, health and safety and quality requirements and other standards
- continually improving.
myKnowledge
The basic constituent of the PROMIS® System is a three-sided Pyramid, a tool that is easily accessible through a graphic user interface (that can be configured at will). Each face of the three-sided pyramid is integrated with the other two.
The pyramid is horizontally subdivided in levels. Each face is vertically subdivided in sectors starting from the top.
- Faces focus each on one of the following: information, services and training,
- Sectors each represent environment, health& safety and quality.
- Levels from top down represent an Initial Review section (profile of current performance: the baseline), a Legislation section (relevant legislation), a How to improve section, a process optimization section and an integrated management tool (myPROMIS®). The first four levels make up “myKnowledge®”.
- The last level, myPROMIS®, supports all stages of implementing a management system and documenting the outcome in an electronic handbook which follows the requirements of ISO and OHSAS management standards.
The preparation of relevant content in each section of the pyramid will result in a highly valuable and individually-customised warehouse of current knowledge and information ready to roll out for the benefit of your clients.
myPROMIS
myPROMIS®, is the core of the PROMIS® Service, an intranet, as well as Internet integrated management solution for compliance and good management.
This management tool provides a structure and functionality to systematically:
- Record and manage applicable legislation and associated actions required to be performed by the organisation;
- Record and manage an organisation’s structural and dynamic data;
- Maintain a risk informed integrated management system based on a plan, do, check, act cycle that promotes continual improvement;
- Manage quality, health, safety and the environment through a single integrated approach;
Facilitate compliance to recognised management system standards.
myQuestionnaire
Is the tool which allows to conceive, elaborate and verify any kind of questionnaire; to adapt it to the own requirements and the needs of the own customers.
myCommunication
Is a fully integrated tool for focused communication between consultants and their clients. It includes the option of direct access to a client's working environment, subject to comprehensive access controls.
SME users are offered the opportunity to invite the support of a qualified PROMIS consultant.
PROMIS Lead Consultant
An expert provider of advice, resources or training to SMEs in the fields of quality, environmental, health & safety and/or integrated management systems may qualify to join in the PROMIS expert’s Community.
The online CV should evidence your expertise and services including relevant aspects of
- best practice techniques
- regulatory compliance
- performance assessment and management and
- continual improvement
in your selected discipline(s) and industry sectors.
PROMIS® offers a set of interactive services, methodologies, tools and contents that enable SMEs to:
- Check their legal compliance;
- Identify deficiencies and risks with their internal management system;
- E-train to enhance their staff’s knowledge, understanding and skills;
- Contact qualified consultants that can provide online or personal support;
- Access information on best practice;
- Achieve customer and client compliance requirements;
- Use myPROMIS® to keep orderliness in the company through an integrated electronic handbook that complies with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, EMAS, OHSAS 18001 requirements and cuts management time spent on these issues.
PROMIS® is specifically designed for SMEs and their consultants and has been designed so that it can be used by personnel who are not specialists in SHEQ and requires no additional software beyond a standard Internet browser. Support systems, in the shape of online help, user handbooks and online training all in three languages (English, German and Italian) makes non-specialist access even easier.
The underlying system is open source and relies on web 2.0 technology.