industrial hazard News
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Dounreay wins sword of honour safety award
Dounreay’s clean-up contractor has won the highest international safety award from the British Safety Council. Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd achieved a coveted five-star safety rating in May, which made the company eligible to work towards the Sword of Honour award. The Sword of Honour is the most prestigious international health and safety accolade that a company can receive, and it is ...
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Hughes Safety Showers Joins the Justrite Family
Hughes Safety Showers Ltd joins the Justrite Manufacturing Co. family of industrial hazardous safety and environmental spill containment products. Hughes, a leading industrial safety shower and eyewash company, expands the Justrite product range for its customers in workplace safety, which includes laboratory, process or full-scale production environments. “Hughes is a perfect complement ...
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Suits claim Love Canal still oozing 35 years later
Thirty-five years after Love Canal's oozing toxic waste scared away a neighborhood and became a symbol of environmental catastrophe, history could be repeating itself. New residents, attracted by promises of cleaned-up land and affordable homes, say in lawsuits that they are being sickened by the same buried chemicals from the disaster in the Niagara Falls neighborhood in the 1970s. "We're ...
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econ industries @ IFAT: Zero industrial waste - Profitable. Reliable. Green energy powered.
During the IFAT 2022, hall A4, booth 251, econ will showcase innovative solutions that maximize resource recovery, efficiency and economical gains through CO2-free systems, enabling waste generators and disposal firms to be equipped not only for today but also for tomorrow. Unlike the majority of the industry, econ industries focuses 100% on recycling plant engineering for hazardous industrial ...
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Protecting Workers’ Families from Secondhand Asbestos Exposure
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 125 million people are exposed to asbestos in the workplace. WHO estimates that 107,000 die each year from asbestos-related lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis resulting from occupational exposures and that one in three deaths from occupational cancer is caused by asbestos. Workers are not the only ones at risk for exposure ...
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Project - USA 1 - Tradebe SDS-I
Project Description: Commissioned in 2004 in East Chicago Indiana, the ATDU Solids Distillation System (SDS) has been in operation for more than 15 years processing RCRA listed waste streams and converting them into saleable products. The ATDU facility offers waste generators an effective and cost-efficient method for recycling organic solid waste that might otherwise be disposed of. Prior to ...
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Mitsubishi and Tetronics to tackle hazardous waste from aluminium industry
A new collaboration partnership will see Mitsubishi Corporation and Tetronics working together to treat the problematic Spent PotLiner (SPL) hazardous waste that is routinely generated during the manufacturing of aluminium. Tetronics Ltd., a leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, announced the signing of a ...
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U.S. EPA Fines Biosearch Technologies of Novato, Calif. for Hazardous Waste Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it has fined Biosearch Technologies $31,500 for improper management of hazardous waste at its Novato, Calif. facility. Biosearch Technologies is a large quantity generator of hazardous waste in an industrial area of the city located in Marin County. The company designs and manufactures products, such as DNA sequencing kits, for the ...
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DeconGel® Approved for Disposal at U.S. Department of Energy Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
HONOLULU - After rigorous testing performed by the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), the innovative decontamination product, DeconGel®, has met requirements for safe transport to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico for disposal of transuranic waste (TRU). DeconGel® was used at SRNL in a headspace simulation test of ...
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EPA Adds the Riverside Industrial Park in Newark, New Jersey to the Superfund List; Seven Acre Site along the Passaic River Contaminated with PCBs and Volatile Organic Compounds
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Riverside Industrial Park in Newark, New Jersey to the Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. After a 2009 spill of oily material from the industrial park into the Passaic River, the EPA discovered that chemicals, including benzene, mercury, chromium and arsenic, were improperly stored at the ...
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U.S. EPA settlement prompts firm to develop hazardous waste training program for metal finishing industry
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Lynx Enterprises, a metal finishing firm in Tracy, Calif., for its failure to comply with federal hazardous waste management regulations. The company agreed to pay a total of $28,750 in civil penalty and spend an additional $108,000 to develop hazardous waste training materials. In October 2010, an EPA inspection discovered that ...
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EPA requests input on Hazardous Waste Management in the retail sector
On Thu 6th of February, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing the Notice of Data Availability (NODA) for Hazardous Waste Management in the Retail Sector. EPA is responding to issues the retail industry has identified that they face in implementing hazardous waste regulations. This NODA provides stakeholders the opportunity to help the agency better understand their ...
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Supreme Court Rules on Asbestos Warnings Involving Maritime Law
Last month a divided Supreme Court ruled that under maritime law manufacturers have a duty to warn about potential exposure risks from asbestos-containing parts that are later added onto their products by third parties. The case made its way to the high court after a U.S. Court of Appeals remanded the case in 2017, ruling that manufacturers may face liability. The decision came about after two ...
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EnviroGuard Launches Online Training Courses for Mission Critical Sites
EnviroGuard, a leader in environmental, health and safety compliance, is taking safety to the next level with online training courses for all personnel responsible for mission critical data center engineering, commissioning, servicing, and property and facility management. Launching this November at the 7x24 Exchange conference, more than 50 training courses provide installers, contractors, ...
By EnviroGuard
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City of Yonkers launches fluorescent light bulb recycling program
Under the terms of an enforcement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the City of Yonkers has initiated a program to recycle fluorescent light bulbs, as well as light ballasts and electronic waste, known as E-waste. Fluorescent bulbs contain mercury, which can be released if the bulbs are broken. Mercury can lead to a variety of health problems, including nervous system ...
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Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., of Wichita, Kan., to pay $132,500 civil penalty to settle issues involving hazardous waste management (KS)
A Wichita, Kan., aircraft component company has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $132,500 to the United States to settle a series of alleged violations of federal hazardous waste management regulations at its manufacturing facility. Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., manufactures fuselages, under-wing components, composites, wings and spare parts for large jet engine aircraft at its facility at 3810 S. ...
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Global Asbestos Awareness Week and Protecting Workers and Building Occupants in Puerto Rico from Exposure Risks
The 17th annual Global Asbestos Awareness Week takes place from April 1st through the 7th. It is meant to raise public awareness of asbestos hazards and diseases that continue to impact so many people around the globe. Asbestos is a generic name given to six fibrous minerals that have been used in commercial products. Asbestos is still used in some countries, but even in places like the United ...
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Faster screening of plastic waste for harmful chemicals
A more efficient method for sorting plastic electronics waste containing harmful chemicals is proposed by a new study. The method combines two analytical techniques that together can quickly and accurately detect levels of flame retardants in plastics used by the electronics industry. The European Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive (2011/65/EU)1, adopted in 2003 and revised in ...
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EPA Proposes to Add the Riverside Industrial Park in Newark, NJ to the Superfund List; EPA Encourages the Public to Comment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to add the Riverside Industrial Park on the banks of the Passaic River in Newark, NJ to its Superfund list of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. After a 2009 spill of oil from the industrial park into the Passaic, the EPA became aware that chemicals, including benzene, mercury, chromium and arsenic, were improperly stored at the ...
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Apprion Dramatically Improves Industrial Safety With ION Safety Shower Application
Apprion, the leader in industrial wireless application systems and services, today unveiled its ION Safety Shower Application that monitors safety shower and eye wash station activation when an employee exposed to hazardous materials activates a safety shower or eye wash station. In the oil, gas, and chemical processing industries, accidents with chemicals and other hazardous materials are all ...
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