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Feeling the Pressure? EH&S Solutions for Utilities Doing More With Less - The Business Case for EH&S Outsourcing
Untitled Document It's no secret environmental health and safety (EH&S) managers are faced with the challenge of accomplishing more with less. In the competitive and highly regulated utility industry, managers are tasked with performing high quality work efficiently and effectively with fewer and fewer resources. Richard Warner can relate. Warner recently retired ...
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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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Even the contents of Windex considered hazardous
Handling hazardous materials and managing regulatory compliance are necessary evils in the workplace. Carlsbad-based 3E Co. is one of the few firms that gladly manages the tasks. 3E has slowly built a foundation on providing environmental health and safety compliance services since its inception in 1988. It's only been within the last two years the company has reaped the fruits of its labor. ...
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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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Streamlining compliance
For a chemical manufacturer seeking to become a global supplier, keeping up with numerous foreign safety regulations and requirements can be quite a challenge. MSDgen®, a compliance tool from Carlsbad, Calif.-based 3E Co., was created to streamline one important aspect of this process, the creation and distribution of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs). “The challenge that our clients are faced ...
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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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3e goes Global as international EH&S regulations become more far-reaching and complex
3E Co. (www.3ecompany.com) is a globalprovider of chemical, regulatory and complianceinformation services. 3E provides a comprehensivesuite of data products and informationservices that addresses the entire lifecycle ofa chemical, covering global regulatory data;material safety data sheet (MSDS) authoring,distribution and management, transportation,emergency response training; regulatory ...
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Asug Environmental Health & Compliance sig newsletter
Welcome to the Environmental Health & Compliance (EH&S) SIG newsletter! The EH&S SIG is focusedon SAP users responsible for environmental, health, compliance and safety issues within theirorganizations. These issues include, but aren't limited to: product safety, dangerous goods, wastemanagement and the various xApps the compliment the EH&S module. For more information, ...
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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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New approaches in MSDS management
From its inception to present day, the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) has evolved, mostly for convenience, into a document that provides data in greater detail than the standard requires. The creation and maintenance of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) was mandated by OSHA via the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) on Nov. 23, 1983, and amended on Sept. 23, 1987, to include all employers ...
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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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Evaluating supply chain EH&S compliance and risk management
Operational risk and compliance management is increasingly focused on environmental issues across the supply chain. As companies strive to deliver sustainable ongoing improvements in compliance and risk management, they are closely scrutinizing the management of products in the enterprise, especially chemicals and other hazardous materials, with a special emphasis on fulfilling requirements in ...
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3E moves to address increasingly complex EHS, chemical management, supply-chain issues globally
3E Company (Carlsbad, CA) is a provider of information technology (IT) products and services to help clients manage their environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance issues, their chemical data reporting requirements, and the environmental impacts of their supply chains and product life cycles on a global basis. The firm has continued to introduce new product and service lines—most ...
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Reaching for success: exploring the impact of the EU`s REACH initiative
The European Union’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals) regulation requires all companies manufacturing, importing, distributing, or using chemical substances in Europe to examine their chemical inventory for substances within the scope of the regulation and to ensure compliance. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) manages the system. Key ...
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GHS and its impact on supply chain risk management and compliance
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, or GHS — developed by a United Nations committee of experts — seeks to facilitate international trade through standardized classification and labeling of chemicals and to improve the overall clarity of available hazard information. Because of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) impending ...
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Managing Compliance: Taking Stock of Your Regulatory and Product Data in 2012
As we head into 2012, the regulatory landscape remains volatile and unpredictable. OSHA’s adoption of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) was announced in March, significant progress is being made on the Safe Chemicals Act and the new requirement to produce REACH exposure scenarios (ES) further burdens manufacturers and distributors who already are struggling to conform to REACH’s ...
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New Advances in Global SDS Management
Before rolling out any management system, communicate your plans with all stakeholders, detailing the benefits and how it will affect their work tasks. Managing global environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) management can be an intricate tightrope walk with many challenges lurking to disrupt its delicate balance. Potential obstacles include evaluating differing global strategies, managing ...
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SDS System Supports Global Regulatory Compliance
Environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services firm 3E Company has announced the immediate availability of MSDgen 6.53, the latest version of its safety data sheet (SDS) authoring system. The new release includes enhancements aimed at streamlining global hazard communication initiatives, including expanded regulatory information for the Vietnamese and ...
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Conflict Minerals Reporting Yields As Many Questions As Answers
While it’s too soon to know exactly how companies will respond to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new conflict minerals reporting requirement, experts say this first year was an eye-opening lesson in just how challenging it is to track down quality data across a global supply chain. “When you look at it from a process standpoint, it’s not a very complicated ...
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Akrochem Corporation Selects 3E’s MSDgen Authoring Software to Replace Commercial SDS System and Enable Rapid Development of Accurate and Compliant Hazard Communication Documentation
Background As a leading provider of compounding materials and color concentrates, Akrochem Corporation is steadfastly committed to improving customer productivity. This includes safety and environmental regulatory compliance. The common thread between these three goals is safety data sheets (SDSs). Effective, compliant and up-to-date SDSs are not only a global requirement, but serve as the ...
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