OSHA implements National Emphasis Program to eliminate highly hazardous chemicals in the petrochemical industry 13 JUNE 2007
OSHA has published a directive implementing a National Emphasis Program to help eliminate workplace hazards associated with the release of highly hazardous chemicals at petroleum refineries.
National Safety Council Report: Accidental Deaths on the Rise 12 JUNE 2007
Accidentaldeaths in the United States are rising at an alarming rate, more than 20 percent over a 10-year period, according to the latest data available.
EPA Advances Public Health and Environmental Protection with New Pesticide Screening 11 JUNE 2007
As a leader in endocrine disruptor research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in the final stages to begin screening pesticides for their potential effect on the endocrine system.
The United States Pulp and Paper Industry is responsible for about 30% of the paper and paperboard market. According to the EPA, the majority of the facilities (67%) comprised in the Pulp and Paper Industry are characterized as having 100 or more employees in order to meet this growing demand. In total, there are approximately 172,000 employees working in the Pulp and Paper Industry. With human capital at such a great number, it comes as no surprise that corporations are making their employee safety one of their top concerns. As another result of the large amount of employees, compliance can be a tedious and expensive venture. With all of the regulations with which corporations must comply, the Pulp and Paper industry can truly benefit from a comprehensive system which facilitates maintaining compliance with state, federal, and other regulatory laws.
From October 2004 until September 2005, OSHA issued 374 citations to the Pulp and Paper Industry and fines totaling $968,628. The average worker incidence rate was 3.2 per 100 full-time employees and the Pulp and Paper Industry had 19 fatalities.
"The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate emissions of toxic air pollutants from a published list of industrial sources referred to as "source categories." As required under the Act, EPA has developed a list of source categories that must meet control technology requirements for these toxic air pollutants. The EPA is required to develop regulations (also known as rules or standards) for all industries that emit one or more of the pollutants in significant quantities. EPA has developed implementation tools (eg. checklists, brochures) to help comply with the standards."
Information from the EPA's TRI (Toxic Release Inventory) Data, among other regulatory guidelines, can be quite reflective of the environmental initiatives which are taken on by a corporation. The process related to on-site releases (to air, bodies of water, and land) and transfers (to publicly-owned treatment works, recycling, energy recovery, treatment, and disposal) can result in a large amount of reporting and a need for compliance solutions. According to the EPA's 2000 data on TRI (SIC Codes 261-263), the release of toxic chemicals from the Pulp and Paper industry totaled approximately 263 million pounds (66% to the air, 22% to the water and 9% to the land). With the largest amount of TRI released by one company as over 5 million pounds, the tracking and reporting of chemicals such as methanol, ammonia, hydrochloric acid, manganese compounds, and sulfuric acid can be overwhelming without the proper compliance management system. Having the proper chemical recovery system in place can also be critical.
Click Here to view just a few of the Federal Statues and Regulations associated with the Pulp and Paper Industry
Some questions to ask yourself:
What can our company do to stay competitive?
Are we losing too much time, money, and other resources dealing with non-compliance?
Are we using the most cost-effective methods to stay compliant?
If not, are we looking to alternatives to our existing compliance system?
Please feel free to browse our website or contact us to see if ehsSUITE is just what your Pulp and Paper Corporation needs to stay competitive.
The graphical analysis feature provided as a standard tool of ehsSUITE allows users to quickly and easily produce graphical displays of data and information using trend, bar, pie and many other data visualization techniques.
ehsSUITE is the only comprehensive metadata-driven application for compliance management. What this means is that all information delivered to the user, such as calculations, validations, alarms, reports and dashboards, is defined in user-configurable tables and are easily managed using configuration wizards.
The event and task feature of ehsSUITE is a collaborative calendaring and scheduling application that synchronizes the agendas of your entire organization to provide users with flexible, more personalized means to instantly view, plan, manage, and coordinate their compliance schedules.
The ehsSUITE has a real-time data collection and handling application that allows users to connect to external sources of data, combine with manual data input and provide a sophisticated infrastructure capable of distributing data in real-time, allowing your company the ability to more efficiently manage data for the protection of air and water quality, land systems, and ground water.
From English to Spanish, from Spanish to German, from German to Dutch and back to English...ehsSUITE speaks any language with a simple click of a mouse. The ehsSUITE platform is the only compliance management software with a built-in language translator.
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The ehsSUITE provides a simple and intuitive place for building and maintaining compliance plans for Environmental, Health and Safety, and Plant Security.
The ehsSUITE provides a simple and intuitive place for building and maintaining compliance plans for Environmental, such as SPCC, SSM, SPCC, SWPPP; Health and Safety, such as Emergency Response, and Plant Security.
The event and task management capabilities of the calendar tool integrated throughout ehsSUITE provides the user with a range of options from the simplicity of simply managing calendar-based events to the functionality required to manage complex compliance projects.
The ehsSUITE calendar tool is a collaborative calendaring and scheduling application that synchronizes the agendas of your entire organization to provide users with flexible, more personalized means to instantly view, plan, manage, and coordinate their compliance schedules and tasks.
With ehsSUITE, web-based displays and dashboards have never been easier or more useful to build and maintain. The page editors provide the users of ehsSUITE a simple and intuitive toolbar to configure powerful data visualization and communication displays and dashboards.
The ehsSUITE provides a regulatory database that may be maintained by the user or may employ the optional BNA XML feed to keep regulations current. All regulations are configured to conform to the BNA standard that provides the user enough flexibility to manage regulations by citation.
The ehsSUITE manages safety equipment by providing the tools necessary for adding equipment, images associated with the equipment, procedures for proper use and deployment, and linking the equipment to an area or facility location.
The ehsSUITE incident management system is a powerful work-process system allowing the user to easily configure incident management systems to correspond to the legacy systems and procedures in place.
The ehsSUITE allows the centralization of MSDS documents to an easier to manage location. Display of the latest MSDS is easy and convenient through the ehsSUITE's web browser.
In addition to providing real-time data, configurable dashboards, reporting in Microsoft Office, and many other features that extend the business value of ehsSUITE software to our users, our Design and Development team has taken it one step further by adding a spreadsheet tool.
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