chemical inventory Articles
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Washington: HSE initiatives to watch
On Nov. 25, 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released for public comment two background discussion documents, oneon EPA’s Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory Reset initiative and the other on EPA’s proposed approach for the Inorganic High Production Volume (IHPV) Challenge Program. Both initiatives are important, and readers are urged to monitor these programs ...
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7 Tips for Chemical Inventory Management
Regulations require all manufacturers and suppliers of hazardous chemical products to provide SDS'. Besides products and substances which are classified as hazardous, the legislation also considers chemicals with occupational exposure limits as hazardous. Chemical inventory should include all of the products you use that meet these criteria. The purpose of the inventory is to help staff and ...
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Compliance with the RMP Rule at a Waste Management Facility
A waste management facility typically treats, stores, and disposes chemical wastes that contain chemicals listed under 40 CFR §68.130. After a thorough evaluation of the existing chemical inventories, it is determined that this facility is not subject to the Risk Management Program rule based on the exemptions given in the rule for the de minimis threshold quantities. Due to the uncertainties of ...
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`Compliance with the RMP Rule at a Waste Management Facility,` presented at the 1999 AWMA BIF Conference
Abstract A waste management facility typically treats, stores, and disposes chemical wastes that contain chemicals listed under 40 CFR §68.130. After a thorough evaluation of the existing chemical inventories, it is determined that this facility is not subject to the Risk Management Program rule based on the exemptions given in the rule for the de minimis threshold quantities. Due to the ...
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Cytec Case Study
Cytec Industries is one of the world's leading specialty chemicals and materials companies with sales, laboratory and manufacturing locations in over 35 countries worldwide. Cytec has made safety and environment two of its top core values. The company strives to be an industry leader in setting the pace in procedures, programs, and most importantly, performance relating to safety, health, and the ...
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Case study - Value that goes beyond MSDS Management
SanLing Resources SanLing Energy Ltd is an intermediate sized commodity balanced oil & gas company operating in BC & Alberta. SanLing uses msdsBinders to manage their MSDSs but there are many additional features beyond managing MSDSs that clients can utilize. Value-Added Inventory Support Shirley Pohl, HSE Representative from SanLing explains, ”A fantastic feature of our ...
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Turkey enacts REACH-like chemical program: what stakeholders need to know
Turkey enacted the Inventory and Control of Chemicals Regulation (Regulation) in December 2008. The Regulation is a scaled-down version of the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation and mandates the creation of a chemical inventory for manufactured and imported substances in Turkey. a variety of reasons, the new law is the source ...
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Organization and Management of Workplace’s Chemical Inventory List
Some of the biggest challenges for any industrial or laboratory operations manager are connected to the environmental regulations and the management of chemicals. The second is the prevalent one. When it comes to the management of chemicals, one task, in particular, maybe the hardest. And that is the compilation and management of the workplace’s chemical inventory list. Tracking all of the ...
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Integrating MSDS with chemical inventory management
In June 2011, Lab Manager Magazine, along with ChemSW Inc. and 3E Company, hosted a “Product Showcase” webinar on “How to Seamlessly Integrate MSDSs with Chemical Inventory Management.” An expert from each company gave a brief presentation on inventory and data management challenges and best practices for implementing an integrated Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) system. ...
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Turkey Enacts REACH-Like Chemical Program
In December 2008, Turkey enacted the Inventory and Control of Chemicals Regulation, a scaled-down version of the European Union’s REACH regulation to establish an inventory of chemicals produced and imported into Turkey and to better control potential risks posed by those chemical substances. Adoption of the regulation is one of many steps Turkey is required to take to secure membership in ...
By Acta Group
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EPA Publishes Final Clarification for Chemical Identification Describing Activated Phosphors for TSCA Inventory Purposes
EPA published its final clarification under which certain activated phosphors that are not on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 8(b) Chemical Substance Inventory (TSCA Inventory) will be considered to be “new” chemical substances under TSCA Section 5, and thus will be subject to applicable notification requirements under TSCA Section 5. According to EPA, the ...
By Acta Group
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Survey says: Material safety data sheet (MSDS)
A good system for chemical management begins with a complete inventory of the laboratory's chemicals and a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) collection for those materials. A little more than 18 months ago, an entirely preventable tragedy occurred when a UCLA research assistant was burned over 43 percent of her body and died 18 days later in a hospital burn unit. While using a plastic syringe to ...
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Richard E. Engler Presents TSCA And The Cellulosic Revolution At ABLC2016
On February 18, 2016, Richard E. Engler, Ph.D., Senior Chemist at Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), presented at Cellulosic Fuels: First Commercials and Beyond, a session at the ABLC2016. Dr. Engler's presentation, "TSCA and the Cellulosic Revolution," covered Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) nomenclature, chemical Inventory, and model manufacturing process issues for cellulosic ...
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EPA increases transparency on chemical risk information
On January 21st the EPA announced a new policy to increase the public’s access to information on chemicals. In the announcement, the EPA stated its intention to reject a certain type of confidentiality claim, known as Confidential Business Information (CBI), on the identity of chemicals. The chemicals that will be affected by this action are those that are submitted to EPA with studies that show ...
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Turns NOx Regulations Into an Opportunity – With a 6-Figure Annual Chemical Savings as a Bonus.
This project was for a major manufacturer of a tabletted OTC analgesic. The manufacturing process was being redesigned, and a critical aspect of the work was the re-engineering of a reactor in the initial stage of manufacturing. The client’s original process, which used nitric acid to dissolve a metal, exhausted virtually 100% nitrogen oxide (NO), a toxic, wholly non-water-soluble gas that ...
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Wet NOx scrubber - Case study
This project was for a major manufacturer of a tableted OTC analgesic. The manufacturing process was being redesigned, and a critical aspect of the work was the re-engineering of a reactor. The client’s original process, which used nitric acid to dissolve a metal, exhausted virtually 100% nitrogen oxide (NO), a gas that reacts with oxygen to form a brown plume at concentrations as low as ...
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Case study - Regulatory reporting done accurately and fast
Bellatrix Exploration Bellatrix Exploration Ltd is a Calgary, Alberta based intermediate energy producer focused on exploration and development of light oil and liquids-rich natural gas opportunities in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Looking for an Easier Way Bellatrix initially contacted Chemscape as they were looking for an easier way to sift through 200 MSDSs to identify CAS numbers ...
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Accurate MSDSs and HazMat Inventory Improve Compliance
In the HazMat world today, most large organizations follow a time-honored process for identifying critical compliance needs and spend the money necessary to make it work. It is a process that tilts the compliance board in advantage of the bigger players. The challenge today for organizations is to effectively manage their entire chemical inventory so they can stay in compliance and avoid the ...
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Temple-Inland`s Corrugated Packaging Operation Contains Costs with 3E Compliance Management Solutions
Background The Corrugated Packaging operation of Temple-Inland manufactures container board which it converts into a complete line of corrugated containers, including shipping boxes, retail packaging and point of purchase displays. Operations consist of five linerboard mills, a corrugating medium mill and 70 converting facilities. Challenge Chris Weber, one of the corporate industrial ...
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Environmental/Safety Management: Dissecting an OSHA Inspection
Understanding OSHA inspections can help utilities prepare, preventing fines and penalties associated with non-compliance. While catastrophes and fatal accidents are obvious inspection triggers, almost half of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Admini- stration) visitations are complaint-driven. Therefore, the best way to avoid an inspection—and potential fines and penalties—is to eliminate ...
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