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Meeting the standards and regulations of OSHA can be complex and challenging for companies to manage. But the cost of noncompliance is not only monetary; it can also risk the lives of employees. No matter how challenging it can be doing regular safety inspections, the cost is too great to take any ...

Sustainability has become a common buzzword within the manufacturing industry, but there are countless applications within any given industry. Of particular concern in today’s economic and ecological climate are air emissions from the automotive industry – particularly from the chemicals used when ...

Gathering information to file your Tier II report is a meticulous endeavor, so we want to take a load off your shoulders, by offering you a tool to facilitating your reporting process: The Tier II Checklist. Having a checklist allows you to check off what you did while keeping you aware of what ...

The Emergency Right-To-Know-Act (ECPRA) / SARA Title III In order to be in accordance with Section 312 of the Emergency Right-to-Know-Act of 1986 (ECPRA), also known as SARA Title III, facility owners and managers are required to report specific information on hazardous materials stored above ...

Section 608 of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Act (CAA) deals with rules and regulations about refrigerants and how technicians, owners, operators, and reclaimers use, manage, store, or dispose of them as well as establishes rules on record-keeping. It also sets regulations ...

Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Reporting is one of the biggest compliance events of the year for manufacturers across the United States. Essentially, it’s an annual summary of the types and quantities of hazardous chemicals from your manufacturing, processes, and other types of usages across the ...

This article was written for the ERA EHS Blog by John Bradburn. John is an ERA expert partner, developing and advising on ERA sustainability solutions. He is the former Global Waste Reduction Manger for General Motors and was dubbed GM’s MacGyver for his uncanny knack to devise unconventional uses ...

Updated February 2025

The EPA recently terminated its support of TANKS 4.09D Software program for tanks calculations, leaving facilities that relied on the tool in the lurch All facilities must now transition away from TANKS 4.09D and find a replacements tanks software to calculate their storage tank emissions. TANKS ...