Sphera announced the Excellence Awards in eight categories at the inspire user conferences.

CHICAGO, IL (June 21, 2019) – Sphera, the largest global provider of Integrated Risk Management (IRM) software and information services with a focus on Environmental Health & Safety, Operational Risk and Product Stewardship is proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Embracing Excellence Awards, which were presented at Sphera’s inspire user conferences in San Antonio and Barcelona, Spain.

The Embracing Excellence awards recognize Sphera customers that have used Sphera products and services to achieve Operational Excellence in many areas. Winners were selected following an in-depth screening and voting process that analyzed the success of scores of projects. Winners were announced in nine different categories.

“Our Embracing Excellence award winners are committed to making the workplace a safer, more sustainable and productive environment for their workers and for the areas in which they do business,” said Paul Marushka, Sphera’s president and CEO. “It is with great pride that Sphera is able to acknowledge these leading companies’ contributions to Environmental Health & Safety and the evolution of Integrated Risk Management 4.0. Whether its Operational Risk Management, Environmental Performance or Product Stewardship, Sphera works with our clients to mitigate risks as true partners, and these award winners exemplify a commitment to true Operational Excellence.”

The award winners are listed alphabetically below along with the category in which they were named the winner.
Excellence in Benchmarking KINDER MORGAN
Excellence in Compliance Assurance CHEVRON 
Cloud Project of the Year IPSEN 
Excellence in Contractor Management TRAFIGURA
Excellence in MRO CARGILL
Excellence in Incident Management CO-OP
Excellence in Product Compliance OERLIKON METCO
New Project of the Year FONA

About Sphera

Sphera is the largest global provider of Integrated Risk Management software and information services with a focus on Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Operational Risk and Product Stewardship. For more than 30 years, Sphera has advanced Operational Excellence by serving more than 3,000 customers and over 1 million individual users across 70-plus countries to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

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