environmental consulting News
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Vibrock Celebrate 30 Years
Vibrock is one of the UK's leading environmental consultancy firms. We provide specialist environmental advice and monitoring ranging from air quality and fugitive dust to the measurement and assessment of vibration and noise. As an independent consultancy company, Vibrock provide our clients with environmental services of the highest quality, based upon the strength of our experience, technical ...
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OK Environmental Services Firm Employs Licensed Remediation Consultant
Tobey Heater recently joined the Oklahoma Environmental Services (OES) team as a project manager, specializing in environmental remediation. Heater, a licensed consultant, works on behalf of petroleum storage tank owners, the oil and gas industry and other businesses to coordinate with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality to meet state ...
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Indoor Environmental Consultants Celebrates 15 Years of Service in Texas and the Gulf Coast
In 2001, a group of the leading building science, indoor air quality, environmental, and microbiology professionals officially opened the doors at Indoor Environmental Consultants, Inc. (IEC). The environmental consulting firm quickly made a name for themselves in their home state of Texas and across the Gulf Coast. Today, IEC is the area’s premier indoor environmental quality ...
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IPIECA-IOGP launch second edition of `Environmental management in the upstream oil and gas industry`
The report has been updated to include topics that have developed or emerged in the upstream oil and gas industry since the original was released, including the relationship between environmental and social management, and the emergence of biodiversity and ecosystem services as a discipline. What’s new? Key updates to the second edition include: the overview of the upstream oil and gas ...
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Texas Environmental Professionals Help to Prevent Occupational Asthma with Air Testing and Monitoring
More than 2 million Texans have been diagnosed with asthma. A significant number of these people are in the workforce and suffer from occupational asthma. Also referred to as work-related asthma, occupational asthma is the most common occupational lung disease in the United States. Nationwide, OSHA estimates that 11 million workers in a wide range of industries and occupations are exposed to ...
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Texas VA Hospital Investigated for Failure to Protect Workers from Exposure to Asbestos
Last month the U.S. Office of Special Counsel sent a letter to President Barack Obama and Congress detailing what was found after a whistleblower claimed asbestos violations at the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital. The hospital, located in San Antonio, was the center of an investigation conducted by a Medical Inspector from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that began in 2014. ...
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LEED IEQ Certification Services in Texas & the Gulf Coast offered by Indoor Environmental Consultants
Across Texas and the Gulf Coast, a growing number of building owners and management companies have recognized the benefits of obtaining the USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for their properties. To obtain this coveted status, there are a number of credit categories where points can be earned towards certification. One major category for LEED ...
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Texas Asbestos Consultants Help to Ensure Buildings are Safe from Airborne Hazards
According to some reports, asbestos was used in over 3,000 materials by the 1970s. Many of these materials were used to construct homes, schools and commercial buildings. In fact, asbestos was used in everything from roofing and siding to insulation, flooring and textured paints and painting compounds. Asbestos is a mineral fiber that is most likely to be found in homes and buildings ...
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Protecting Workers in Puerto Rico from Respirable Crystalline Silica and OSHA’s New Initiative
Earlier this fall, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had launched a new initiative focused on enhancing enforcement and providing compliance assistance to protect workers involved with engineered stone fabrication and installation. According to the announcement: Supplementing OSHA's current National Emphasis Program for ...
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Monitoring Outdoor and Indoor Air Quality in Puerto Rico to Protect People’s Health
Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was continuing to work with the government of Puerto Rico to fully re-establish its air monitoring network in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The network is a key component for ensuring air quality and the protection of people’s health in Puerto Rico. The EPA also just awarded the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality ...
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Businesses in Puerto Rico Advised of New OSHA Guidance for Enforcement of Respirable Crystalline Silica Standards
This summer, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a compliance directive designed to ensure uniformity in inspection and enforcement procedures when addressing respirable crystalline silica exposures in Puerto Rico, and across the United States, for general industry, maritime and construction. Exposure to respirable crystalline silica can cause silicosis, a ...
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Experts Provide Services to Prevent Silicosis in Puerto Rico
Silica exposure remains a serious threat to several million U.S. workers, including more than 100,000 workers in high risk jobs such as abrasive blasting, foundry work, stonecutting, rock drilling, quarry work and tunneling. Exposure also occurs during many different construction activities and some manufacturing processes. These same risks can be found in Puerto Rico and across many parts of ...
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OSHA Announces Regional Emphasis Program and MSHA Launches New Initiative Targeting Respirable Crystalline Silica
In June, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) launched a new enforcement initiative to better protect the nation’s miners from health hazards due to repeated overexposure to respirable crystalline silica. Earlier in the year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a new Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for silica in the Cut Stone and Stone Products ...
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Building Ventilation and Indoor Environmental Quality in Puerto Rico’s Commercial Properties
In late June, Better Ventilation Pays Off In Productivity, Health was published by the Healthy Facilities Institute. The feature looked into building ventilation standards that are based on minimum requirements and how increasing ventilation rates can have a significant positive impact on building occupants and their indoor environmental quality (IEQ). An important component of IEQ that was ...
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A continued consultancy approach by Enviro Technology has helped to increase its hire business by three fold
With vast expertise and experience in the field of air quality monitoring Enviro Technology Services Plc has increased its hire business by three times more than anticipated level this year. The company provides a range of equipment for hire, which includes particulate and NOx analysers and indoor air quality monitoring equipment. The equipment is hired by environmental consultancies or by end ...
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Countertop and Stone Fabrication Workers and Silicosis Risks from Engineered Products in Puerto Rico
Earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new report in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The article examined 18 cases of silicosis, including two fatalities, which occurred in stone fabrication workers. Silicosis is caused by exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust and is a progressive, disabling and often fatal ...
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EHS Experts in Puerto Rico Help to Prevent Occupational Asthma
According to recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), close to 150,000 adults in Puerto Rico have asthma. For adults with asthma, some developed the condition as a child, while others did not develop asthma until they were older. For some, the condition may have been caused or made worse by exposure to allergens or irritants on the job. Occupational ...
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Caribbean’s EHS Experts Identify PAHs & Other Hazardous Chemicals
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, commonly referred to as PAHs, are a group of chemicals that are formed during the incomplete burning of coal, oil and gas, garbage, or other organic substances like tobacco or charbroiled meat. PAHs are often found as a mixture containing two or more of these chemical compounds. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that some PAHs ...
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Bacteria that Causes Legionnaires' Disease Frequently Found in Cooling Towers
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the results of a study on the prevalence of Legionella bacteria in cooling towers across the country. According to media reports, CDC researchers found that 84% of the 196 cooling towers tested for Legionella DNA came back positive and viable Legionella was confirmed in approximately 40% of the cooling towers. This is a ...
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Occupational Eye Protection and Mitigating Infection Risks in Puerto Rico
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports that each year, thousands of people are blinded from work-related eye injuries that could have been prevented with the proper selection and use of eye and face protection. OSHA standards require employers to ensure the safety of all employees in the work environment and this includes eye and face protection. It must be provided ...
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