Environmental Compliance 101

Since 1970, the Federal government has promulgated more than 15,000 pages of environmental regulations, implementing more than 50 environmental statutes. Added to this are state and local regulations, which result in a system of complex and overlapping regulations. The result of this movement has been an improved environment, but has also created an atmosphere where the environment is seen as a cost and risk of doing business, and rightly so. Not only can regulatory compliance be expensive, the potential cost of noncompliance to a struggling business can be crippling. With the potential of monetary fines, any company managing risk would be foolish to assume that environmental compliance can be disregarded.

While the government can afford to employ hundreds of bureaucrats specializing in the various environmental categories (air, water, waste, etc.), the typical small to mid-sized facility relies on one barely to moderately trained individual to keep the facility out of trouble. Compounding this frustration, that person is often a key element of the operations staff that has been asked to accept yet one more title; a title that is secondary to their core responsibilities.

The burden of environmental compliance is real and this webinar will discuss some of the basic environmental regulatory programs that can affect numerous facilities. Additionally, we will introduce five steps to developing a compliance management system that will give Managers more peace of mind in knowing that their compliance risk is being managed.

To register for this November 23rd environmental compliance assistance program webinar, visit augustmackevents.webex.com.