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Chemical Management Software helps Electric Company stay ahead of Regulators
VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON and ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA – Safetec Compliance Systems, Inc., has become the chemical management solution provider for one of the nation’s most successful electric companies, PPL Corporation. To better manage its chemicals and stay ahead of regulators, PPL needed a solution that could centrally manage chemical compliance data, integrate with existing systems ...
By HSI
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Quantum Adds More Languages to GHS Workplace Labeling
Labeling is a critical component of OSHA’s HazCom and other countries’ GHS based regulations. Chemical manufacturers, importers, and distributors are responsible for ensuring that containers of hazardous chemicals are properly labeled before they are shipped or introduced into the workplace. If you manufacture chemicals, you need Quantum’s SDS Authoring software because it will generate the GHS ...
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ASTM F1821 - 11b Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toddler Beds
This consumer safety specification deals with the requirements for the design and performance of toddler beds. It also contains requirements for labeling and instructional material. This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize incidents to children resulting from normal ...
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Safetec Names Kim Peterson Director of Environmental, Health and Safety
Safetec Compliance Systems, a leading provider of global chemical risk and compliance technology solutions, has named Kim Peterson as its Director of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS). As an experienced, hands-on EHS professional, Ms. Peterson brings to Safetec greater insight into the challenges EHS Managers face in managing day-to-day tasks, including recordkeeping and reporting, handling ...
By HSI
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Recent Actions Ensure New England Companies Adhere to Protections in Federal Pesticide Law
Over the past several months, EPA has taken a series of enforcement actions against several New England firms for alleged violations of the federal law that governs pesticides in the U.S. (the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, or “FIFRA”). The larger cases included a business that sells temperature sensing instruments for medical use, a maker of devices used to ...
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U.S. EPA settles with East Bay MUD over hazardous waste violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) for improper management of hazardous waste at its Oakland wastewater treatment plant. The public utility agreed to pay a $99,900 penalty. EPA conducted a site inspection at EBMUD wastewater treatment plant in 2014 under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and ...
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EnviroScience Opens Nashville Office and Expands Capabilities into Hazardous Materials and Ecological Damage Assessments
EnviroScience, Inc. has opened a Nashville, Tennessee office and has hired local employees with extensive chemistry and toxicology backgrounds. The new office will bring additional capabilities of ecological damage assessments and HAZMAT cleanup solutions to the business. In addition, the office is expected to greatly expand EnviroScience's key business area of biological monitoring throughout ...
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Three Southern California Metal Companies to spend more than $196,000 for Federal Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the conclusion of three recent investigations of Southern California metal finishing companies which will collectively spend more than $196,650 for hazardous waste and Clean Water Act violations. All three facilities are located along the I-710 freeway corridor where the effects of pollution are disproportionately higher than in other areas ...
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Scotts Manufacturing Company to Pay $148,388 penalty for Hazardous waste issues at Fort Madison, Iowa, facility (IA)
The Scotts Manufacturing Company, of Marysville, Ohio, has agreed to pay a $148,388 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of alleged violations of hazardous waste laws at its pesticide blending and packaging facility in Fort Madison, Iowa. Scotts employs approximately 200 full-time and 200 part-time workers at the Fort Madison facility, which blends and packages various lawn and ...
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Electro-Coatings of Iowa, Inc., to Pay $19,171 Civil Penalty for Hazardous Waste Violations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Electro-Coatings of Iowa, Inc., a chrome, nickel, and zinc plating operation, has agreed to pay a $19,171 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company will spend a minimum of $110,000 to install technology that will reduce the amount of hazardous chrome ...
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Waste Management LampTracker, Inc., to pay $118,800 penalty for hazardous waste violations at Kaiser, Mo., Facility
Waste Management LampTracker, Inc., has agreed to pay a $118,800 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of violations of its Missouri Hazardous Waste Permit and the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at its permitted Kaiser, Mo., facility and a nearby unpermitted materials staging area. Waste Management LampTracker, which collects and recycles universal waste ...
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EP Committee Study on Legislative Areas of the TTIP Addresses Nanomaterials
The European Parliament (EP) Committee on Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI) has posted a study entitled ENVI Relevant Legislative Areas of the EU-US Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations (TTIP). The study analyzes the main differences between European Union (EU) and U.S. legislation in eight areas: human medicines and medical devices; cosmetics; food and nutrition; ...
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Asbestos Exposure Risks Faced by Plumbers in Puerto Rico
For decades, thousands of building materials and products that were used for construction in Puerto Rico and across the region contained asbestos. These materials included many used for various plumbing applications in residential and commercial buildings of all types. Unfortunately, many of these asbestos-containing materials can still be found, potentially posing a risk to building occupants. ...
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Asbestos Still Lurks in Many Commercial and Residential Properties in Puerto Rico
Asbestos was used for decades in many building products found in Puerto Rico and across the Caribbean. It is a naturally occurring mineral fiber that when added to building products, offers desirable attributes such as increased strength, corrosion resistance, acoustical dampening, thermal insulation and fire resistance. It is most likely to be found in homes and buildings constructed between ...
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3E company strengthens 3e online MSDS management tool with multiple GHS and CLP enhancements
3E Company, a leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today announced the availability of new capabilities within 3E Online — MSDS designed to support conformance with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and Classification Labelling and Packaging (CLP) initiatives. The ...
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EnviroGuard Announces 7th Patent for Most Comprehensive Spill Containment
MONTCLAIR, Calif. – February 22, 2012 – EnviroGuard, an industry leader in spill containment and facility safety products, is pleased to announce the issuance of its 7th patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,691,596) on spill containment systems from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This new patent is the most comprehensive patent to date for lead acid battery spill containment ...
By EnviroGuard
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EPA Agreement with Prince Georges County School District Ensures Compliance with Safeguards for Asbestos in Schools
In a consent agreement with EPA, the Prince George’s County School District in Maryland has resolved alleged violations of federal regulations on the management of asbestos materials in school buildings, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The school district has cooperated fully with EPA to come into compliance and ensure ongoing compliance with asbestos safeguards ...
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Commission asks four Member States to implement EU chemicals legislation
The European Commission is asking Germany, Finland, Poland and Portugal to update their chemicals laws in line with recent changes in legislation agreed at EU level. These Member States did not communicate measures relating to the Directive on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. Poland has also failed to inform the Commission about the transposition of ...
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