Computer System Validation and Climate Change
Introduction
Ways for companies to take effective climate action
1. Reduce Paper Waste
Businesses have made great strides in recent years toward going paperless. Encourage staff not to print email and draft documents, offering the ability to send documents to personal devices if that makes electronic review easier. Especially in computer system validation which usually uses a huge amount of paper, converting it into ‘zero paper’ means not only paper sheets but printer cartridges, folders to organize these documents, space to allocate these folders, and valuable trees to make the paper; not to mention the energy and water that are used in paper production. Here’s the most obvious benefit of paperless validation
2. Reduce Travel
Travel not only cuts into your business’ bottom line, it has a negative impact on the planet. Although there are a few things you can do to reduce the environmental impact of traveling, it can be more effective to switch to tech tools like video conferencing. Instead of going to a conference to network, schedule a webinar and get your customers to join you online, saving money and reducing carbon emissions. The working from home culture developing due to the COVID-19 pandemic has showed that we can effectively reduce the need for many kinds of business travel
3. Build a culture of awareness
It’s important to educate employees on the impacts every person makes on the environment. How many of your computers and appliances remain on when no one’s around? Eliminate paper handouts, cut back on the office soda habit, and avoid too many take-out containers. It’s easy to skip the bottled water at every meeting, and you might even consider a company-wide ban on single-use water bottles
4. Choose environmentally conscious vendors
If your business wants to fight climate change, find other businesses and organizations that do, too. Using local vendors for catering and supplies not only supports your local economy and other small businesses, it also cuts back on shipping, gas, manufacturing, and logistics.
5. Use the cloud
Cloud computing has become the norm for companies today, which is fantastic since a cloud infrastructure addresses two critical elements of a green IT approach: energy efficiency and resource . Especially, in email communications, file size can be reduced by adding links to cloud instead of sending attachments. This approach does not only save space and provides flexibility, it also cuts back on hardware and manufacturing, plus the emissions that go along with both.
Final thoughts
Here at i2b we significantly decreased CO2 emissions by experienced working remotely. We recycle and organize paperless events. We go digital by paying utility bills online, electronic forms of communication and create a central documentation sharing system.
Our company, by using paperless validation procedures has done an essential upgrade to pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing compliance methods leading to a more environmentally friendly approach. We provide on-going support for agile method validation for GxP-related project in Pharma, Biotech, and IT industries, whether it is a single process at one site, or involves large-scale deployments, covering multiple sites and numerous users.
Reach out to us for guiding you to the paperless validation processes supporting the environment and a full risk-based estimation of this impact to your daily business operations.
