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Knowing if you are one of the many facilities required to file a Biennial Hazardous Waste Report with the EPA is not necessarily a straightforward affair. The characteristics that determine if you need to submit a hazardous waste report are filled with tricky conditions, making it somewhat ...

Integrating pollution prevention (also known as P2) into your industrial waste management system is essential for not only preventing land and air contamination but also to alleviate the burdens, liabilities, and organizational risks associated with waste management. Facility managers, state ...

Behavior Based Safety Observations (BBSOs) are recorded observations to improve worker safety and reduce risk. BBSOs typically involve managers and other appointed observers watching tasks and operations while making notes and suggestions to improve safety. Additionally, workers can also submit ...

Safety audits, both internal and external are a vital part of maintaining your safety culture and feeding your virtuous cycle of continuous improvement. For most Health and Safety professionals that shouldn't be a revelation. However, we're going to deep dive into a specific element of safety ...

What Is Incident Management? Incident management refers to a systematic process which an organization utilizes to quickly identify, analyze, address and document incident related problems – including who, what, where, when, and why. Successful implementation of an incident management system ...

What is ISO 14001 Certification and How to Prepare for It? ISO 14001 is considered the gold standard when it comes to businesses demonstrating a commitment to environmental management. Developed by the experts at the International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14001 lays out the ground work ...

As regulations tighten around the automotive industry, OEMs will have to push these increased regulatory requirements down to suppliers in order to keep up. Regulations like REACH that prohibit manufacturers from including chemicals and substances of very high concern in products made in the EU or ...

How to Improve Market Performance through Intentional Corporate Culture In an article he wrote for Forbes, David Michaels likened change to surfing in that “change, like waves, actually never stops. It can be large or small, fast or slow, but it is continuous.” The amplitude, direction, and ...

Why Do Companies Need Accurate SDSs? Companies manufacturing, distributing or importing products containing hazardous chemicals must have Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) for the chemicals they manage. The quality of these SDSs can vary, but the best SDSs must be accurate. In addition to data accuracy ...