audit protocol Articles
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The Enhesa Flash hits your inbox today
We have incredible content this month, thanks to our brilliant consultants and partners! Stay up-to-date on the most relevant EHS regulatory topics and trends this fall – print out the Flash, read it on your mobile, or flip through the pages on your desktop. Enjoy. Check out the topics: The journey to a risk elimination culture Deadline to train workers on OSHA’s revised HCS ...
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Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA Enhances Management System Audits and Risk Assessments for Integration with Incident Reporting
A decade ago, Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA (TPRI) established itself as a global leader in risk management. The Houston-based company deployed market-leading environmental, health and safety (EHS) incident management and reporting software – IHS IMPACT ERM – at all 17 Total Petrochemicals facilities worldwide to drive operational excellence and ensure compliance with ...
By IHS Markit
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EHS Regulatory Compliance Audits for a Global Automotive Supplier
Challenge Antea Group, along with our global Inogen partners, was requested to provide environmental, health and safety (EHS) regulatory compliance audits of a major automotive supplier's manufacturing facilities in South America (7 facilities) and Asia (3 facilities). Solution Antea Group led the organization of the audit protocols, schedule and expectations from North America for the Inogen ...
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Top EHS Consulting Considerations for the Automotive Segment
Knowing when and how to use EHS consulting to supplement an EHS Team can be challenging, particularly in the automotive industry. Increased globalization, shrinking budgets, and a dynamic regulatory climate mean consistent challenges for manufacturers and suppliers alike. These challenges, however, also create opportunities. Here are some EHS consulting considerations for automotive companies ...
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Significant new environmental laws in Saudi Arabia – many ME countries may follow suit
Just published in EHS Journal, Sanaa Chakibi, Middle Eastern EHS Expert at Enhesa, summarizes significant new environmental laws issued by Saudi Arabia in 2012 and provides links to the legislation in English. Background Saudi Arabia has acted with urgency to develop a comprehensive framework for measuring and monitoring activities that cause environmental degradation. Its actions include ...
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Audit Management Software: Become a Compliance Superhero
Audit management software has revolutionized the environmental, health and safety industry, empowering safety professionals, like you, to spend less time with documentation efforts. Adopting an audit software will demonstrate to your organization that your top priority is ensuring key business goals such as sustainability, ethics, and compliance remain intact every day. And that is worthy of ...
By EHS Insight
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Choose Your Own Auditing Adventure
Four Approaches for a Customized Environmental Auditing Program Compliance audits are a tool commonly employed by EHS managers to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs in meeting national, regional, and local regulatory requirements. Comprehensive audits will present not only findings, but also root causes and corrective actions. Based on internal capabilities and the reality of EHS ...
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Asia’s Regulatory Outlook for 2012 – A review of Enhesa’s Webinar
The phenomenal recent growth in Asia has been accompanied by an equally phenomenal growth in EHS policy activity. In November 2011, Enhesa’s most recent webinar focused on Asia’s Regulatory Outlook for 2012. Between the two sessions, Enhesa hit a new attendance record of over 600 registrations for the event. About a third of webinar participants tuned in from the Asia region, which ...
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Sensitive environments - Enhesa’s regulatory registers assure protection
Oil and gas exploration and production are perhaps the most closely scrutinized activities of all when it comes to protecting the environment, and even more so when it comes to sensitive, or even protected environments. Indeed, a company’s very permission to operate will be contingent at the very least on meeting both the spirit and the letter of the law governing the protection of such ...
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Season’s greetings from Enhesa
December marks a special time of the year. The turn into 2012 is the critical moment to assess the happenings and changes that took place throughout the year, and Enhesa has seen its fair share of them. It’s becoming a very commonplace trend, but every year more and more EHS regulations are adopted worldwide. The counter for this year stands at 2902 regulations, or 240 per month. If one ...
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Case study: Why it`s Time to Revisit your EH&S System
Introduction: We know what you’re going to say. Trust us. We’re experienced professionals; we’ve been doing it this way for the past 15 years. Why fix what isn’t broken? We just don’t have the money right now. We don’t have time to train everyone on a new system. We’ve heard all the arguments before, more than a few times. What you’re doing ...
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Climate Change Verification Comes Of Age: ISO 14064
Since the mid 90’s SGS has been providing Greenhouse Gas Verification services for our clients, and now, with the rise in prominence of Climate Change and the release of ISO 14064, this service is coming into its prime. SGS is accredited for, and active in, all the credible schemes around the globe. From Kyoto Projects to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, from the California Climate Action ...
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The Human Element
Humans are the weakest part of your information security system Michael Brophy, Certification Europe’s CEO, highlights why the human element is the weakest part of your information security system and sets out how to prevent data breaches. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana “That engine of fate mounts our walls, pregnant ...
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Corporate standards: good enough in today’s world?
Have you ever questioned whether or not your corporate standards were comprehensive enough to ensure compliance globally? Do you feel confident that your facilities all over the world have all of the right tools to be compliant locally? In May 2012, hundreds of EHS Managers from some of the world’s largest multinational organizations tuned in to Enhesa’s recent webinar, Going Beyond ...
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RC-14001: The Chemical Industry`s New Environmental Management System
Responsible Care®-14001 (RC®-14001) gives chemical companies a powerful new tool to improve their environmental performance. Formally adopted in 2002, this environmental management system (EMS), was created jointly by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB). RC®-14001 lets companies become certified simultaneously by RAB-accredited registrars to both the ...
By AECOM
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External Pressures Are Changing How Companies View QMS Solutions
Product quality may be a public reflection of brand values, but companies that don’t optimize quality management, strategy and leadership to fit in with the demands of the modern regulatory and consumer marketplace could become a 21st century anachronism. A recent state-of-the-market report by Gartner said that disparate elements such as regulatory requirements, changing ...
By EtQ, LLC
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Fortune 500 Manufacturer Tailors Audits to Fit Each Site and Achieve Enterprise-wide Consistency
Company 'raises the bar' with system that enables auditors to focus on individual site requirements in quest for continual improvement. Background in Brief You’ll find many of the company’s products on just about every airplane in production*. And you’ll find a dauntingly wide range of environmental, health and safety audit requirements across the company’s roughly 100 facilities worldwide, ...
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Improve Cash Flow and Reduce Labor Costs with Laboratory Automation and Document Management
Benchmarking At Labcore, a division of Poplar Solutions, LLC, performance management begins with benchmarking key laboratory activities that contribute to cost, quality, end-user acceptance, and other important variables. Benchmarking allows lab staff to quantify and demonstrate the improvements to laboratory operations. There are a number of metrics that are captured in this initial phase ...
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Managing Global EHS Compliance case study
Challenge: Facing the challenges of operating in an international regulatory environment, a global technology company was seeking a consultant to manage its EHS compliance program across 40 countries located throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Program objectives included ensuring compliance with local EHS regulations and internal management standards. With a ...
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Environics - Reducing calibration gas cost by up to 60%
EPA's appendix 'M' 40 CFR 51 reduces calibration gas cost by 60%By: Terrence P. Dunn, President of EnvironicsOn May 30, 1995, the EPA published the final version of Method 205 for inclusion in Appendix M of 40 CFR Part 51 entitled, 'Verification of Gas Dilution Systems for Field Instrument Calibrations.' Continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) require calibration during compliance audits ...
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