The Isosceles Group's International Compliance Services include assessment, auditing, compliance management, and regulatory tracking of a broad range of environmental and occupational health and safety categories.

The Isosceles Group (Isosceles) currently operates in more than 25 countries through its network of in-country associates, where we manage the day to day workplace labor, safety, and environmental issues at 21 facilities.  Isosceles has also performed Due Diligence Assignments in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and our staff has audited operations in more than 35 countries. 

Isosceles tracks the environmental and workplace safety regulations of 57 countries and the status of numerous global initiatives on a quarterly basis to identify new or emerging compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility related issues that could affect the operation and expansion of facilities. Isosceles has published individual Country Regulatory Compliance and Audit Protocols for use by our clients for 41 countries or provinces.  Isosceles also conducts research of specific regulatory requirements in several languages, including Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish and German.

Our international clients include telecommunications, computer-components, pharmaceuticals, automotive-components, household products, aviation, food industry and general manufacturing sector businesses, for which we have performed in-plant inspections; the evaluation of compliance with parent company requirements and with applicable local governmental standards; facility audits; specific EH&S Program Development and Implementation at the facility and corporate levels; staff outsourcing and management; and training.

Isosceles can assist its clients remotely, or on-site, in the deployment of auditing and compliance systems. Isosceles develops and implements cost-effective auditing programs and reporting systems, based on the evaluation of corporate risk and priorities, and the use of web-based tools to obtain and report on information regarding foreign and remote facilities.

Representative Isosceles Projects:  

• International Regulatory Protocol Development, Various Countries, for Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. (ORC). The Isosceles Group (Isosceles) (as SHD) provides ORC and its membership firms with regulatory summaries for environmental and occupational health and safety laws and regulations for more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia,Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. These summaries of local laws and regulations, and an auditing checklist, are being used by several Fortune 500 US-based multi-national firms with operations in many of these countries.  Isosceles also provides ORC and its membership with a regulatory alert update service that details new and emerging issues in the fields of environmental stewardship, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and climate- change legislation, in addition to the more traditional environmental and health and safety laws and regulations.

• Regulatory Compliance Auditing and Litigation Support, Australian Meat Employees Union. The Isosceles Group (Isosceles) (as SHD) was retained to provide Health & Safety (H&S) support to a poultry processing and meat packing facilities located in Australia and New Zealand.  The project initially involved a comprehensive review of applicable global EH&S standards both within Australia and New Zealand, as well as other first world countries with similar facilities.  This review included a detailed evaluation of the existing written H&S Policies and Procedures for each of approximately 10 individual corporations that owned the poultry processing and meat packing facilities.  The review focused on injury and illness data, and the correlation of this data with existing programs designed to mitigate identified risks. Following the initial review, over a 12-month period, Isosceles systematically evaluated each individual facility for compliance with in-country H&S regulatory requirements, conducted an analysis of the program management system developed by each facility to meet expected H&S goals and objectives, and produced a detailed report to each facility. 

• International Environmental, Health & Safety Protocol Development and Auditing Support, United Technologies Corporation (UTC).  The Isosceles Group (Isosceles) (as SHD) was retained to develop regulatory compliance protocols for environmental, health and safety regulations for manufacturing facilities in Europe (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Ukraine, Finland and Italy) and in Southeast Asia (Vietnam and Taiwan).  Isosceles provided UTC with a detailed summary of each country's existing EH&S laws and regulations relating to manufacturing operations, and developed an auditing checklist for compliance verification.  Isosceles also participated in performing audits of UTC's international operations, as well as conducting an assessment of selected process lines with high accident rates to understand the root cause of the incidents, and to help UTC develop a method to prevent future accidents.  Isosceles was directly responsible for evaluation of all Asian facilities, through the provision of both US-based and in-country personnel. This included involvement in fatality reviews for Chinese operations at the request of the company CEO.  Our success in the Asian region led to the expansion of services to include all international and domestic operations.

• Development of a Web-Based International EH&S Management System, Pfizer Corporation.  On behalf of Pfizer, The Isosceles Group (Isosceles) (as SHD) developed a web-based EH&S management system for more than 750 worldwide distribution, office, and sales and support facilities in more than 60 countries, on all continents to evaluate risks that were not previously addressed by the Facility and EH&S management structure.  Isosceles developed a series of questionnaires to which facilities could respond via a web-based portal, to gain an understanding of each facility's basic operations, systems, potential risks, staffing, level of training, and staff competency with handling of various risks.  These surveys, supported with selected physical in-facility audits to confirm the web-based survey results, allowed for the development of new programs for sustainable risk management systems to be implemented across the globe.  As part of this program Isosceles implemented a fast-tracked knowledge-transfer program to improve EHS performance at international facilities.  By utilizing a combination of web-based tools and focused audits, Isosceles was able to quickly transfer corporate requirements and model programs from other international facilities to on-site staff.

• Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Support (including On-Site Staffing) for Sensata Technologies. The Isosceles Group (Isosceles) (as SHD) is responsibe for the strategic development and implementation of corporate safety, industrial hygiene and workers' compensation programs; the development and oversight of EH&S audit program; and development and implementation of EH&S training initiatives, globally. As part of this program, Isosceles designed and implemented a worldwide EH&S EMS; coordinated roll-out of an EH&S EMS program with international counterparts; developed procedures, practices and technical standards to assist in the implementation of a corporate EH&S policy and management system; and established numerical goals and objectives as well as methods, to acquire data and track performance against goals. Isosceles also directed development and implementation of worldwide multi-media audit program to assess implementation of the EH&S management system, and led corporate-wide EH&S training initiatives ranging from needs assessment to assessing program effectiveness.Isosceles provides continued management direction to all international facilities and provides for on-site staffing in domestic locations. International locations addressed in the program include facilities in The Netherlands, China, Brazil, Malaysia, Japan, Hungary, Dominican Republic, Korea and Mexico.

• Worldwide Facility Evaluation Program, Texas Instruments (TI). The Isosceles Group (as SHD) was selected as project manager for TI's facility evaluation program. In this role Isosceles provided detailed assessments of EHS performance at 8 facilities located in the USA and Asia. Isosceles identified areas for improvement and provided technical assistance to these facilities through the development of a uniform standard for EH&S awareness, and training to all international employees. Isosceles provided in-country personnel for translation services, and the training of in-country facility personnel in Europe and Asia.

• Development of a uniform standard for EH&S awareness and training, Novellus Systems Inc.   The Isosceles Group (as SHD) developed EHS awareness training programs in the local languages for 8 countries and then provided in-country personnel and training of all personnel in their Europe and Asia facilities.