SAP EHS Interview Cheatsheet (Fast Revision Guide)


1. SAP EHS Overview

SAP EHS = Environment, Health, and Safety Management
Used for:
✔ Product Safety
✔ Dangerous Goods Management
✔ Industrial Hygiene
✔ Occupational Health
✔ Incident/Accident Management
✔ Waste Management
✔ Hazardous Substance Compliance

Runs on SAP ECC & SAP S/4HANA.


2. Key SAP EHS Modules

1. Product Safety & Stewardship (PS)

  • SDS (Safety Data Sheet) management
  • Label Management
  • Substance Volume Tracking
  • Global regulations (REACH, GHS, OSHA)

2. Dangerous Goods Management (DG)

  • Classification
  • Packaging
  • Transport regulations
  • DG checks during SD/LE processes

3. Industrial Hygiene & Safety (IH)

  • Exposure profiles
  • Risk assessments
  • Work area & work center monitoring

4. Occupational Health (OH)

  • Health surveillance
  • Medical services
  • Employee health records
  • Immunization tracking

5. Waste Management (WM)

  • Waste generation
  • Waste disposal lifecycle
  • Recycling tracking
  • Regulatory compliance reporting

6. Incident Management / Risk Assessment

  • Near-miss events
  • OSHA logs
  • Root cause analysis
  • Corrective actions (CAPA)

3. Important Master Data

  • Substance (Real/Sub/SU)
  • Specification Database
  • Value Assignments
  • Material–Specification Assignment
  • Phrases (Phrase Management)
  • Work areas
  • Risk Assessments
  • Exposure profiles

4. Key Transactions (Must-Know)

Product Safety

  • CG02 / CG02BD — Specification Workbench
  • CG42 — Report Generation
  • CG54 — Report Shipment
  • CG12 — Phrase Management
  • CG5Z — Data Editor

Dangerous Goods

  • DGP1 — Maintain DG data
  • DGP3 — DG checks
  • DGP5 — DG proposals

Industrial Hygiene

  • CGA2 — Agent Assignment
  • CGA3 — Exposure data
  • IH01 — Work area structure

Occupational Health

  • IMPS — Health Surveillance
  • QS41 — Code Groups
  • QK01 — Medical Services

Waste Management

  • WB21 — Waste transfer
  • WB22 — Disposal document
  • CBGL_MP — Waste tracking

Incident Management

  • CII1 — Create incident
  • IEM — Incident Environment Monitoring

5. SDS (Safety Data Sheet)

Key Concepts

  • SDS templates
  • Generation variants
  • WWI (Word Wide Integration) layout
  • Phrase sets
  • Report Distribution
  • Multi-language SDS generation
  • Regulatory compliance (GHS, OSHA)

6. WWI (Report Generation Tool)

  • Word-based templating system
  • Uses symbols, identifiers, include files
  • Used for: SDS, labels, DG documents, reports
  • WWI Server installed separately

7. Dangerous Goods (DG) Management

Core Concepts

  • DG Checks via SD & LE
  • Packaging & classification
  • ADR, IATA, IMDG regulations
  • DG master data per “UN number”
  • DG proposal functionality

8. Industrial Hygiene & Safety (IH&S)

  • Exposure scenarios
  • Agent assignment
  • Risk assessment matrix
  • PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) rules
  • Work area monitoring
  • Incident prevention workflows

9. Occupational Health

  • Health surveillance protocols
  • Medical examination scheduling
  • Employee health records
  • Integration with HR
  • Vaccination tracking

10. Waste Management

  • Waste profiles
  • Waste transportation documents
  • Disposal certificates
  • Internal vs external disposal
  • Regulatory reporting

11. Integration with Other Modules

MM

  • Material–Specification assignment
  • Hazardous substance data

SD

  • SDS delivery
  • DG transport checks

PP

  • Work centers & workplace exposure

HR

  • Employee health records (OH)

PM/Plant Maintenance

  • Risk assessment in work orders

12. Top 30 SAP EHS Interview Questions

  1. What are the key components of SAP EHS?
  2. Explain the structure of a Specification (Real Sub, List Sub, etc.)
  3. What is WWI? How is it used for SDS?
  4. How do you generate an SDS?
  5. What is Phrase Management?
  6. What is an SDS Distribution?
  7. Differentiate Product Safety vs Dangerous Goods.
  8. What are Value Assignments?
  9. How do you assign a Specification to a Material?
  10. What is a Generation Variant?
  11. Dangerous Goods Regulations supported by SAP.
  12. What is DG Check?
  13. What is Industrial Hygiene?
  14. How do you create a Risk Assessment?
  15. What is a Work Area?
  16. What is Exposure Monitoring?
  17. Explain Occupational Health management in SAP.
  18. What are Medical Services?
  19. Explain Waste Management flow.
  20. What is a Disposal document?
  21. What is Incident Management in EHS?
  22. How are Near Miss events logged?
  23. Difference between internal and external waste disposal.
  24. How are SDS sent automatically to customers?
  25. Explain real-time integration with SD.
  26. What are Substances and Specifications?
  27. What is a Report Symbol?
  28. How do you configure WWI Templates?
  29. Explain regulatory compliance steps.
  30. What changes in SAP EHS in S/4HANA?

13. S/4HANA EHS Changes (Asked Frequently)

  • Embedded Fiori apps
  • New Incident Management UI
  • Harmonized work area & risk assessment
  • Integration with Environment Management
  • Simplified DG process

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