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
- What are the key components of SAP EHS?
- Explain the structure of a Specification (Real Sub, List Sub, etc.)
- What is WWI? How is it used for SDS?
- How do you generate an SDS?
- What is Phrase Management?
- What is an SDS Distribution?
- Differentiate Product Safety vs Dangerous Goods.
- What are Value Assignments?
- How do you assign a Specification to a Material?
- What is a Generation Variant?
- Dangerous Goods Regulations supported by SAP.
- What is DG Check?
- What is Industrial Hygiene?
- How do you create a Risk Assessment?
- What is a Work Area?
- What is Exposure Monitoring?
- Explain Occupational Health management in SAP.
- What are Medical Services?
- Explain Waste Management flow.
- What is a Disposal document?
- What is Incident Management in EHS?
- How are Near Miss events logged?
- Difference between internal and external waste disposal.
- How are SDS sent automatically to customers?
- Explain real-time integration with SD.
- What are Substances and Specifications?
- What is a Report Symbol?
- How do you configure WWI Templates?
- Explain regulatory compliance steps.
- 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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