well management Articles
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Product Stewardship Productivity Summit was full of substance about substances
At Sphera’s Productivity Summit for Product Stewardship the talk was about “stuff,” lots of “stuff”—literally and figuratively—and data, lots of data. Quick question: How often do you go shopping in a store or order an item online? Pretty regularly, we presume. But how often do you think about the very components—or substances—within ...
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Transparent and secure processes: Well-organized data management in the chemical industry - Case Study
According to the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI), Germany is finding it increasingly difficult to stay globally competitive as a chemical location. The industry is facing the enormous challenge of securing its long-term competitiveness. After implementing Quentic, the online software for Health & Safety, Environmental management (HSE) and Sustainability, ISP Marl GmbH is now in ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Sustainable environmental management in the aluminum industry - Case Study
According to the German Aluminum Industry Trade Association (GDA: Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie), more than 600 companies and 74,000 employees are active in the German aluminum industry. As manufacturers of high-quality aluminum profiles, system components and slugs, Aluminium-Werke Wutöschingen is committed to the careful use of resources. The company uses Quentic, the web-based ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Taking the lead in safety: Online solution for occupational safety and environmental protection - Case Study
Creating a safe working environment requires that many precautions are considered: risk assessments, the implementation of safety measures, drafting operating instructions and training employees. In order to manage these responsibilities effectively, the company ENGIE Deutschland (former name: GDF Suez Energie Deutschland) relies on the online software Quentic. Since 2010, ENGIE Deutschland ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Performance Track Record of Composites in Chlorine Manufacturing
For 30 years SABIC has been using composite pipes and assemblies in its Chlorine manufacturing operations. Through the collaboration with Versteden, and using high quality Atlac® resins from AOC Aliancys, these reliable material solutions have enabled SABIC to run its operations in a safe and continuous way, as explained by Thana Kammeijer, Paul Peterse, and Erwin Simons. At the site of ...
By AOC, LLC
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Treatment and Disposal of Air Pollution Control Residue
What is APCr? Thermal waste management using Energy Recovery Facilities (ERFs) is now a well-managed and mature technology that is subject to environmental monitoring by a range of competent international bodies. These ERFs have been established as a means of diverting waste away from landfill disposal and for valorising the material and energy content of the waste. Counter to historic operation ...
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BJ’s Wholesale Club Stocks up on 3E’s Environmental Regulatory Compliance Solutions
Background Headquartered in Westborough, MA, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. is a leading operator of membership warehouse club stores in the Eastern United States. The Company currently operates over 200 clubs in 15 states from Maine to Florida and employs more than 25,000 team members. Challenges As a large retailer, BJ’s faces many unique safety and environmental compliance ...
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3E Helps Amarillo’s Osage Water Treatment Plant Wrangle its MSDSs
Background Located in the center of the Texas Panhandle, Amarillo offers all the conveniences of big city living in a friendly and small town atmosphere. The city’s 180,000 residents rely on the Osage Water Treatment Plant to provide them with clean, potable water. The plant operates on a 24 hour a day schedule, and has a treatment capacity of seventy million gallons of water per day. ...
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Tuning the performance of a natural treatment process using metagenomics for improved trace organic chemical attenuation
By utilizing high-throughput sequencing and metagenomics, this study revealed how the microbial community characteristics including composition, diversity, as well as functional genes in managed aquifer recharge (MAR) systems can be tuned to enhance removal of trace organic chemicals of emerging concern (CECs). Increasing the humic content of the primary substrate resulted in higher microbial ...
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Environment Canada to publish summaries of risk assessments for new chemicals
OTTAWA--Environment Canada this fall will begin publishing summaries of risk assessments it conducts on certain chemical substances when they are first proposed for domestic use. The initiative by the department's New Substances Program has the support of industry and nongovernmental organizations, but industry remains concerned about the potential release of confidential business information ...
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Use of new scientific developments in regulatory risk assessments: challenges and opportunities
Since the 1990 s, science based ecological risk assessments constitute an essential tool for supporting decision making in the regulatory context. Using the European REACH Regulation as example, this paper presents the challenges and opportunities for new scientific developments within the area of chemical control and environmental protection. These challenges can be sorted out in three main ...
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Hazard material information management and regulatory compliance
Prior to the 1970s, legislative acts addressing hazardous chemicals were few in number and specific to a handful of topics. The Refuse Act of 1899 was often ignored and rarely enforced, and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 was exclusive to radioactive material. When it came to workplace and community safety involving the handling, storage, disposal, and transportation of hazardous materials, ...
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Hazcom changes loom on the horizon
During the past few years, the global regulatory landscape has changed with the implementation of the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). GHS has become an essential component of corporate account globalization plans, with its effect felt throughout the global supply chain. Many countries have implemented GHS — but not always ...
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Issues and Framework of Environmental Health in Malaysia
Environmental health problems in Malaysia are mostly attributed to atmospheric pollution, water pollution, climate change, ozone depletion, and solid waste management, as well as toxic, chemical, and hazardous waste management. The Ministry of Health, Malaysia, has been vigorously pursuing the environmental health agenda by collaborating with other agencies at district, state, national, and ...
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Equipment deficiencies: How well are they being managed? (Part 2 of 2)
As introduced in part one, a key element of a successful mechanical integrity (MI) program is the equipment deficiency process that ensures deficient equipment conditions are identified in a timely manner and appropriately managed until they are corrected. Part two discusses the common struggles related to managing deficiencies and how involving appropriate levels of management can provide ...
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Maintaining a compliant MSDS management program
The world of chemical regulatory compliance is becoming increasingly complicated as product sourcing and formulations grow more complex and organizations expand into new markets on a global scale. New initiatives such as the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals and the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals add to the challenge of keeping on top ...
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Minimalist or motivated
Two strategies for managing chemical compliance This article outlines strategies and tactics for efficiently and effectively managing chemicals, while achieving EHS regulatory compliance. Since OHSA and the EPA were created in the 1970s, regulations have changed the way that chemicals and other hazardous materials are managed and introduced cradle-to-grave liability for chemicals and ...
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Human Performance Problems in Environmental Management
Finding the Right Solution to Human Performance Problems in Environmental Management Part I: Deciding on Appropriate Interventions A familiar facet of environmental management in large and small companies today is 'training'. Whether a firm is sizing up the impending ISO 14000 environmental management systems standards and its ability or desire to subscribe, or whether it is merely trying ...
By EEM Inc.
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Are your MI and reliablility programs competing for resources?
A number of refineries and chemical processing facilities have not yet realized the potential synergy between regulatory-driven mechanical integrity (MI) programs and facility-wide reliability programs. The tendency at many facilities is to keep these two initiatives separate, which typically results in a competition for precious maintenance and inspection resources as well as management ...
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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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