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.
From October 2004 until September 2005, OSHA issued 377 citations to the refining industry and fines totaling $21,477,575. The Refining Industry had 10 fatalities. The average worker incidence rate in the Refining Industry was 2.5 per 100 full-time employees.
The ehsSUITE solution 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.
The release reporting requirements set out in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) enable federal, state, and local authorities to effectively prepare for and respond to chemical accidents.
The ehsSUITE solution provides a simple-to-use interface to manage regulations and availability to a company, facility, or operation level. In addition, only ehsSUITE allows our users to relate regulations and their applicability to equipment, tasks, events and data - making it easy to track each applicable regulation and demonstrate compliance.
Management of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and determination of the carbon footprint for your facility or corporation is important in today's global marketplace. Initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 14000, and Corporate Sustainability Initiatives are beginning to require facilities or corporations to calculate and aggregate data and information on greenhouse gas emissions and determine their carbon footprint.
The ehsSUITE solution provides easy-to-use calculation tools that allow a facility to determine the release data for each of the approximately 650 chemicals and then compare that to the threshold level for reporting.
The Clean Air Act requires the 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...
Managing a wastewater treatment system is tough enough and now EPA's emphasis on TMDL is making it tougher. Monitoring, inspections, completing Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs), and compliance assurance of discharge and consumptive use permits are just some of the tasks facing you.
Transitional work management tools in ehsSUITE software capture detailed employee and worker job descriptions, define transitional work programs, record provider restrictions, match restrictions with transitional job assignments, assign transitional work schedules and track transitional work periods.
