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University Environmental Health & Safety Departments: Handling Compressed Nitrogen and Cryogenics

An explosion at a university research lab in Hawaii last year highlights the dangers of working with compressed gas and the need for safety equipment on campus. Learn the dangers of working with compressed gas, how an oxygen deficiency monitor can help, and campus safety best practices. Compressed Gas on Campus: Uses and Dangers Compressed gases including ...

May 9, 2017

By PureAire Monitoring Systems, Inc

How Seismic Use Group Classification affects your Water Storage Tank

When purchasing a bolted steel tank or a welded steel water storage tank, one of the key criteria determining the design parameters of the tank is the Seismic Use Group (SUG) classification. The term Seismic Use Group is essentially the same as the terms Occupancy Category and Risk Category used by the International Building Code (IBC) and the ...

May 17, 2017

By Superior Tank Co., Inc.

The Importance of Dewatering

With spring comes two things: the onset of construction season for most of our country and rain- lots and lots of rain. The unpredictability of storms and the amount of rainfall is all a guessing game. Jobsites flood, work stalls and projects get delayed. Rain makes it hard to keep dry and on-schedule. What’s the solution? Dewatering is a technique used to control ...

May 17, 2017

By Pac-Van, Inc.

UV LEDs making waves with clean water

Oxford Instruments systems now facilitate water purification technology With World Earth Day last week I’ve decided to make this weeks blog about how new technology is being used to enhance people’s lives in a fundamental way. The UN recognises that clean drinking water is a global issue with over ...

Apr. 25, 2017

By Oxford Instruments plc

Nanomaterial environmental risk assessment

Mar. 26, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Choosing Children’s Environmental Risk

A model of endogenous risk provides a foundation to study a parent’s child care decisions when the child could be exposed to an environmental hazard (e.g., toxic substance, foodborne pathogen). The parent invests in childcare quality and quantity to reduce the likelihood of a hazard exposure occurring and to reduce its severity if the exposure is realized. We supply conditions to sign ...

Mar. 1, 2006

By Springer

International environmental cooperation with risk aversion

This paper models global environmental policy in a stochastic setting: reducing pollution not only reduces expected environmental damage but also its spread. The national incentives to cooperate are analysed under adverse conditions: expected payoffs are taken to have the structure of a (static) prisoners' dilemma. It is shown that, even then, incentives to cooperate unilaterally or even ...

May 11, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Environmental Policies to Reduce Cancer Risk

Untitled Document Cancer is the second most prevalent cause of death in the United States, behind heart diseases. The lifetime risk ...

Jun. 1, 2005

By Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)

Post-deal environmental risk management

In the Mergers & Acquisitions series supplement of Financier Worldwide, Simon Johnson, Managing Director of ENVIRON FRS, provides insight into how to avoid 'suprises' in business by completing strategic and comprehensive risk management, both pre- and ...

Dec. 1, 2004

By ENVIRON

Risk communication and stakeholder participation in the governance of systemic environmental health risks

Achieving effective stakeholder participation in discourses about modern, systemic risks is difficult. Risks and policies to control them stimulate behavioural changes in society, so stakeholdership evolves as events play out, and defining stakeholders requires the ability to model the adaptive responses involved. Engaging stakeholders is also problematic because of inherent barriers of time, ...

Jan. 4, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Book Review: Corporate Strategies for Managing Environmental Risk

Corporate Strategies for Managing Environmental Risk, by Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne. Ashgate, 2004. 584 pp. ISBN 0-7546-2411-0Keywords: book ...

Mar. 19, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Case note: Environmental risks, rights and black swans

Keywords: Environmental rights, risk, European Court of Human Rights, black ...

Jul. 15, 2013

Integrated Environmental Risk Financing for Successful Brownfields Redevelopment

Untitled Document Environmental engineers and others involved with brownfields redevelopment have increasingly come to appreciate the role of the new environmental insurance products in financing ...

Jan. 1, 2001

By Environmental Insurance Agency, Inc.

Transfer Your Environmental Risks to a Third Party

Remediation of contaminated sites often is costly and time-consuming, diverting scarce corporate resources from a company’s core operations. Moreover, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and recent Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board rules and standards governing accounting for and reporting of environmental liabilities (e.g., FIN 47 Accounting for Conditional Asset ...

Jan. 24, 2007

By Freeborn & Peters LLP

Egg wash wastewater: Estrogenic risk or environmental asset?

Commercial production of eggs and egg products requires the washing of eggs to remove urinary / fecal material and broken egg residue. In the case of one Ohio farming facility, 1.6 million birds produce 1.4 million eggs per day, using ∼50 mL of wash water / egg or ∼ 70,000 L per day. The aqueous waste stream was evaluated for estrogenicity, to determine if potential for endocrine disruption ...

Feb. 25, 2013

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals: Regulatory developments

Concern about the potential environmental impact of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment was first expressed over 30 years ago. It is therefore surprising that there is still so little current regulation requiring environmental risk assessments to be undertaken on human pharmaceuticals. Particularly in view of the rapid development in legislation, that has taken place in many ...

Oct. 1, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

A New Vigilance: Identifying and Reducing the Risks of Environmental Terrorism

Environmental terrorism is an old type of conflict with a new face. Large, costly wars between two or more states have become less prevalent over the past 50 years, and with the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, there ...

Sep. 1, 2001

By Pacific Institute

Simultaneous treatment of environmental and financial risk in process design

In this paper, we propose a new measure for environmental risk and discuss a way of considering it simultaneously with financial risk. Instead of using single numbers to define environmental risk, we propose to use the cumulative probability of emissions, similarly to the cumulative distributions of profit used for financial risk. We also propose to use a risk surface as a generalisation of the ...

Mar. 16, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Help protect children from environmental risks

October is Children’s Health Month. To heighten awareness about environmental issues impacting children, EPA is providing parents and caregivers simple tips they can use to help protect children in their homes, schools and communities.“As both EPA Administrator and a mother, I understand the importance of protecting our children from environmental threats,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. ...

Oct. 8, 2009

By EnviroVantage

Environmental risk assessment of a closed industrial landfill

Client: Waste Management Industry Location: Closed landfill, Warwickshire, UK Services: Hydrogeological risk assessment and Closed landfill support Issues: Potential risk to groundwater and surface water, environment and human health. Gaps in available data for closed landfill site. Summary: ESI ...

Oct. 8, 2011

By ESI Ltd - Environment Specialists

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