Showing results for: HAZMAT inventory Articles
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HazCom Inventory: Worth Another Look
Sure, OSHA's Hazard Communication (HazCom) standard is important--vitally important to a firm's chemical safety program. But why revisit this fundamental program now? After all, it has probably been integrated into safety program now that most employees believe that it has been around for generations. However, results from a recent evaluation conducted point to a systematic failure to recognize ...
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The 2011 EBJ Business Achievement Awards
3E Company (Carlsbad, CA), for the introduction of several new products and services that address environmental, health, and safety (EHS) product life cycles and supply-chain obligations. New products and services launched in 2011 included the following: 3E Mobile – MSDS, which 3E claims to be the first mobile site to offer instant access to hazardous materials inventories and associated ...
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Managing Regulatory Burdens
hazardous materials can be found at virtually every construction project in the United States. Surprisingly to some, a brick is considered a hazardous material under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Hazard Communication regulations as a source of crystalline silica if cut or sawed. Primer purchased at the local hardware store is a flammable liquid to a highway patrol ...
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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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3E Company Helps LG&E and KU Electrify Its SDS Management Program
Background Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company (LG&E and KU) are regulated electric and natural gas utilities, based in Louisville, Ky. A member of the PPL (NYSE: PPL) family of companies, the utility serves 394,000 electric customers and 319,000 natural gas customers in Louisville and 16 of its surrounding counties, an area that covers roughly 700 square ...
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Diagnosing and Powering Up Your HazMat Compliance Program - How Do You Get Started? (A Report for Utilities)
Untitled Document In a competitive and highly regulated utility industry, environmental health and safety (EH&S) professionals are asked to do more, efficiently, with reduced staffs. In the past few years, mergers and acquisitions have forced combined, downsized EH&S departments to stay at peak performance and manage increased responsibilities with fewer resources. ...
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More than penalty avoidance - the role of the MSDS throughout the supply chain
Environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance programs are typically geared toward delivering continuous improvement in performance and/or reducing risk. Companies that want to deliver sustainable ongoing improvements in compliance associated with handling chemicals are best advised to take a full-lifecycle approach to understanding and managing chemical product compliance across the ...
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3E Company Gives Cabot Microelectronics Corporation the Power to Comply with Global Regulations
Background Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (CMC) is a supplier of sophisticated polishing compounds and polishing pads used in the manufacture of advanced semiconductors and rigid disks--critical components that drive today‘s electronic systems from desktop and laptop computers, cellular phones and electronic games, to personal data assistants, telecommunication switchboards and the ...
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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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California’s Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP) Requirements for Refrigerants
Are you aware of California’s Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP) reporting requirements for certain refrigerants? This post explains which facilities are impacted along with why, how, and when such facilities must submit annual reports to the California Environmental Reporting System (CERS). In fact, because reports are due by March 1st, we thought now is a good time to review ...
By Trakref Inc.
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Back to Basics
A refresher on how to properly manage HazMat inventory How are you managing the hazardous materials (HazMat) used, stored, and produced in your facility? That is the question. Unless a facility manager has a multimillion-dollar budget and works in an organization with a cultural commitment to safety and risk management, they're probably managing ever-more-complex rules and requirements with ...
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World-Class Compliance That Doesn't Cost a Fortune
Untitled Document A well-designed and properly maintained inventory of hazardous materials onsite is of utmost importance. How are you managing the hazardous materials you use, store and produce in your facility? To view the full article, click here (PDF - 102 KB) ...
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Improve your approach to hazardous materials
Today most large organizations that must deal with hazardous materials follow a time-honored process for identifying critical compliance needs and spend the money necessary to make it work. However, committing this level of resources can be tough for smaller companies. The challenge is to effectively manage their entire chemical inventory to stay in compliance and avoid the dangers, fines and ...
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Ease the Pain of Hazmat Regulatory Compliance
Did you know that OSHA considers a brick a hazardous material if is cut or sawed during construction? And that a highway patrol officer enforcing Department of Transportation regulations considers over-the-counter primer a flammable liquid? Hazardous materials aren't always visible to the untrained eye, yet they are present at just about every construction site in the United States. OSHA, ...
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Design for recycling: a route to green ship recycling
Ship recycling at the end of a ship’s useful life aims to make the shipping industry more environmentally sustainable and is a major source of employment in developing countries. However, there are associated health, safety and environmental concerns. This study argues these concerns are due to inappropriate design and explains how ‘design for recycling’ can reduce the costs and ...
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Managing compliance: Taking the heat out of fire code classification
How are you managing the hazardous materials you use, store and produce in your facility? Do you have an accurate, up-to-date inventory of the hazardous materials and chemicals within your organization? And are all of those materials properly classified? More specifically, are these materials classified for fire code? Fire code classification long has been considered one of the more complex and ...
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Strengthening product stewardship throughout the supply chain: A full life-cycle approach
Kami Blake of 3E Company looks at the issue in managing EH&S data in the chemicals industry As regulations increase in number, scope and complexity, environmental, health and safety (EH&S) compliance is fast becoming a major concern that spans virtually every industry. All companies are increasingly affected by and subject to more stringent EH&S regulations and are being faced with ...
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Strategies for enhancing EH&S Regulatory Compliance and Reducing Risk
With the advent of new federal and international environmental regulations and safety rules, perhaps more than ever before, risk professionals and insurance customers need visibility into the chemicals used at their sites. The environmental regulatory landscape has become increasingly complex in recent years, and companies that manufacture, transport, use, or sell potentially hazardous materials ...
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MSDS evolution: from document to data to globalization
OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) was first adopted in 1983 for the manufacturing sector. In 1987, the agency expanded the scope of coverage to include all industries where employees are potentially exposed to hazardous chemicals. The catalyst for HCS was the powerful Right-to-Know (RTK) movement that gained momentum in the late 1970s, first at the state level, as it forged ahead to ...
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Best Practices for Chemical Management for Cost Savings, Regulatory Compliance, and Environmental Responsibility
If you ask industrial and laboratory operations managers about their biggest challenges, the answers you'll hear most often relate to environmental regulations and the management of chemicals. And the concern permeates the whole organization as well -- according to Accenture and the Conference Board, over one third of 500 top US CEO's named chemical-related Environmental ...
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