ESS, the leading provider of enterprise sustainability solutions for Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) and Crisis Management, today announced that it has opened ESS China, its Beijing-based office that will offer the industry-leading software platform to organizations in Greater China and throughout the Asia Pacific region.

To celebrate its new office, ESS will host a grand opening event, featuring local executives and civic leaders, Wednesday, March 26 at the Beijing American Club.

ESS has established its first office in Asia in order to grow its marketing and support operations in a region where it already has a strong client base, including global energy giants PetroChina and China National Petroleum Company (CNPC).

“Businesses throughout Asia and, in particular, Greater China, are positioning themselves to increase their market share through expanded global operations,” said Robert Johnson, ESS President and CEO. “Those decision makers understand that their organizations must implement standards that are aligned with international protocols such as ISO 14000, Global Reporting Initiative, OHSAS 18000, REACH and others in order to compete in markets where HSE is recognized as an important benchmark for enterprise sustainability.”

For nearly two decades, ESS has provided customer-focused solutions that reduce complexities, risks and costs that are associated with HSE management so organizations can reach their corporate governance goals for sustainability and operational excellence. ESS China will continue that tradition by offering the company’s integrated software platform, which enables organizations to efficiently address urgent business concerns such as greenhouse gas management, Corporate Social Responsibility reporting, worker health and safety, compliance reporting and emergency response.

“Organizations throughout China have experienced tremendous growth over the past 10 years, and now they are facing daunting environmental, health, safety and crisis management challenges,” Johnson said. “ESS is uniquely positioned to help those organizations manage their HSE issues more effectively. ESS’ integrated software platform enables users to efficiently collect and communicate critical HSE and Crisis data at all levels of an organization and across the enterprise. With technologies to support enterprise hierarchy and multilingual localization, ESS delivers enterprise solutions that help organizations leverage their HSE data to achieve a competitive advantage, and support Governance, Risk and Compliance.”

PetroChina’s HSE software platform implementation represented a major landmark as the first enterprise-wide compliance and risk management software deployment of its kind in China. ESS’ software platform enabled PetroChina, the world’s largest company by market capitalization, to increase productivity by driving process improvements that generated time and cost savings while also improving management decision making. CNPC selected ESS based on the success of the PetroChina implementation.

About ESS

ESS is the leading provider of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) and Crisis Management sustainability software solutions that support Governance, Risk and Compliance and operational excellence. The company has provided global and local software for thousands of businesses, government agencies and other organizations worldwide. ESS is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona with U.S. offices in Denver, Houston and Washington, and international offices in Beijing, China and Calgary, Alberta.