How much should you budget for environmental compliance programs? That's always been a tough question, but not with eCAP®. For a monthly fee, eCAP® fixes your costs annually and takes care of the majority of your compliance issues. So you don't have to worry about hiring extra staff or taking personnel away from more productive and profitable tasks. And when new regulations lead to new compliance requirements, we make sure you know about them. With eCAP®, compliance is not an unpredictable expense, but a monthly investment in peace of mind. Call us about this Environmental Compliance Solution! To talk to Tom Anderson with August Mack Environmental about this program, call 317.916.3105.
Implementing an Environmental Management System (EMS) at your company can be extremely beneficial by providing a general framework for organizing the tasks for effective environmental management. Additionally, implementing an EMS can have the following benefits:
- Integrates existing environmental programs
- Creates an orderly process for understanding and meeting regulatory requirements
- Integrates environmental issues into mainstream business activities
- Reduces risks associated with environmental issues
- Builds an engine of continuous environmental performance
- Improves environmental performance
- Enhances image with public, regulators, lenders and investors
- Increases efficiency/reducing costs
I can't tell you how many times potential clients have asked me about "Going Green" and immediately want to discuss sustainable business strategies, such as recycling, planting trees, etc. My first response is to ask whether they are compliant with all of the required environmental compliance requirements. The typical response is either "yes" or an inquisitive look. Based upon my experience, many facilities are not fully compliant with the numerous environmental compliance programs that are applicable to their operations. They are not willfully violating these requirements, but they just do not realize what all the requirements are that affect them! There are regulations that may be applicable related to boilers, chemicals, waste disposal, storage of oil related products, underground storage tanks and the list goes on. This is why it is difficult to be fully compliant. So where should you start? Step back and perform a full environmental compliance audit. If you need help with that, call me at 317.916.3105.
The Safety and Environmental Base Module is the foundation of eCAP®. This module is designed to provide ongoing solutions to environmental compliance requirements. It provides routine interaction with the environmental compliance consultant experts and plant personnel to ensure consistent environmental regulation compliance and program improvement. This can be accomplished at three levels: program development, program implementation and compliance monitoring. In addition, training can be provided to employees to establish an understanding of the facility’s environmental, health and safety mission. At least one of these options are required and selections of additional options is dependent upon the facility’s compliance needs.
August Mack Environmental provides numerous webinars on a variety of topics, including environmental compliance programs, environmental compliance auditing, health & safety compliance, sustainable business strategies and environmental management systems. To attend one of our free webinars, visit:http://www.augustmack.com/webinars/.
Knowing the difficulties associated with compliance, August Mack has developed an environmental, health and safety compliance assurance program (eCAP®) that can revolutionize the way facilities manage environmental regulation compliance. eCAP® focuses on the facility’s regulatory compliance, while reducing facility expenses on an annual basis and allowing internal personnel to focus on production. August Mack’s proven program manages corporate risk by outsourcing a plant’s regulatory compliance for a fixed monthly fee.
Our experience shows that clients spend a significant amount of time and money participating in training seminars, policy and regulatory committee meetings to educate themselves and track the ever-changing regulatory requirements. After all the research and education, many manufacturers are still uncertain regarding the applicability of regulations for their specific operations. In the end, compliance can only be confirmed via regulatory agency inspections, which often result in “Notices of Violation”, penalties and fines. eCAP® is designed to eliminate all of these uncertainties and allows you to focus on your bottom line.
eCAP® provides a team of experts in all areas of EPA environmental compliance to implement, review and maintain an environmental management system that ensures compliance with current and future regulations. This allows the facility personnel to focus efforts on production requirements and August Mack experts to focus on the facility’s EH&S compliance issues.
eCAP® is modularly designed to help facilities achieve and maintain compliance with the following:
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Clean Water Act (CWA)
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Resource Conversation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Click on the webinar title below to register. All webinars begin at 10am EST*.
Indiana Air Permitting: A Map of the Regulatory Maze
Thursday, September 16*
Indiana Air Permitting: A Map of the Regulatory Maze
Thursday, September 16*
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) issues air permits to regulate facilities based on their potential to emit of criteria and hazardous air pollutants. In this presentation, we will identify what is considered to be a criteria and a hazardous air pollutant; determine how to calculate your potential to emit; discuss the differences between types of air permits issued by IDEM; and highlight some of the typical air permit compliance requirements.
Lingering Environmental Trends in Buildings
Tuesday, September 21
The buildings we spend the majority of the day in play an important role in our daily lives. The primary purpose of a building to protect people from the elements and to support human activity. Buildings should not make people sick, cause them discomfort or otherwise inhibit their ability to perform. If environmental exposures are not well managed, costly remediation and/or potential liability as a result of ensuing environmental issues can occur. In addition, with ever changing regulations, managing environmental exposures can help to limit liability and ensure regulatory compliance. Some of the most common lingering environmental trends in buildings are indoor air quality, water intrusion issues, mold and the ever changing regulations regarding lead based paint. In this presentation, we will discuss these environmental trends and what steps can be taken to manage these environmental exposures.
Lockout/Tagout: The Components of an Energy Control Program
Thursday, September 23
Join us to learn about the components that are required in an Energy Control Program (Lockout/Tagout). Having a properly prepared program is the first step in protecting your employees. This is followed by training, implementing and reviewing the program to ensure it is working.
Underground Storage Tank Closure and Corrective Actions for the State of Ohio
Tuesday, Septempber 28
August Mack's UST Closure and Corrective Actions for the state of Ohio webinar will familiarize clients with Ohio's UST governing agency, define common nomenclature used and detail all responsibilities required to complete a legal closure. We will also provide information on what options are available for closures with contamination above applicable action levels, future investigation requirements and the necessary steps to obtain a "No Further Action" letter from the state.
Environmental Cleanups and Liability During a Bankruptcy
Thursday, September 30
For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2010, 1,531,997 bankruptcies were filed. Of those, 61,148 were business filings – a 27.4 percent increase in the number of filings! With the growing number of bankruptcies the likelihood of a company or individual simply “walking away” from an unwanted property increases significantly. Sometimes abandoning not only the physical assets and land, but also abandoning a wealth of potential environmental contamination, problems and/or waste.
*Webinar begins at 2pm EST.
An Environmental Management System (EMS) is the business processes an organization uses to understand and manage their effect on the environment. An EMS follows the Plan - Do - Check - Act process (PDCA). The graphic below illustrates this process.
August Mack Environmental has a program that is specifically designed to meet the needs of an EMS. Our eCAP (Compliance Assurance Program) helps a facility manage its day-to-day environmental compliance programs. To learn more about eCAP, click here to visit our eCAP website.
It is estimated leaking components in facilities nationwide emit more than 40,000 tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) each year. Recent EPA audits suggest that actual facility leak rates are over five times as much as what had been previously reported. The EPA is increasing enforcement and more facilities are becoming applicable to Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) program requirements through the Clean Air Act via New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) regulations.
This informative webinar will detail applicability requirements of facilities subject to LDAR program from NSPS and NESHAP regulations. The webinar will also explore implementation options that facilities have to fully execute LDAR.
Click here to view this recorded webinar presented by an August Mack Environmental Compliance Consultant.
Since its inception in 1999, eCAP® has been implemented for more than 100 clients throughout North America. When trying to determine the top benefits of eCAP, we asked our clients what they thought and four top benefits were mentioned: file organization, fixed cost structure, technical expertise and preservation of institutional knowledge.
Employees leave companies. Companies hire new employees. When an employee leaves a company that knowledge base, what is between their ears, leaves with them. To lessen the transition and the loss of knowledge that invariably happens during employee turnover is another key element of the eCAP® system. Documenting methodology, data collection points and emission factors is a function of eCAP®. The web page is a tool that allows the seamless flow of information from August Mack's environmental compliance consultants to our clients management staff. Process diagrams, report filings, worksheets, etc. are maintained on the Web site and provide a step by step historical record of facility inspections reporting functions and day-to-day corporate environmental compliance activities. This regimented effort reduces and eliminates that loss of knowledge that occurs when employees leave. It's a hallmark of the program.
To learn more about how the loss of institutional knowledge can impact your facility, click here to read an article written by one of the environmental compliance technicians at August Mack Environmental.
Since ISO 14001 is a voluntary program, companies tend to choose to participate or not participate based on internal or external driving factors. Some of the drivers for a facility to become ISO 14001 include the following:
- Corporate Policy
- Regulatory Expectations
- Anticipated Benefits
- Improved Compliance
- Cost Reductions
- Market Focus
- Customer Requirements
- Public Relations Pressures
To learn more about ISO 14001, click here to read an article written by one of the environmental compliance specialists at August Mack Environmental.
If you are looking to get help with your EH&S issues at your facility by getting outsourced assistance, consider August Mack's Compliance Assurance Program (eCAP®). We are currently providing this service to facilities in 15 different states. With our team of Environmental Compliance Specialists, you can rest comfortably knowing that your compliance issues are being maintained. You can outsource this responsibility to August Mack or we can provide supplemental assistance. To learn more, call Tom Anderson at 317.916.3105.
Since 1970, the federal government has promulgated a multitude of environmental regulations, implementing more than 50 environmental statues. Added to this are state and local regulations, which result in a system of complex and overlapping regulations. The results of this movement have been an improved environment, but it also has created an atmosphere where the environment is seen as a cost and risk of doing business. This presentation will discuss some of the basic environmental regulatory programs that can affect the construction industry and the associated construction projects. Consider attending this webinar if you are an owner, developer, architect, general contractor, subcontractor, construction manager, project engineer or anyone who wants to learn the impact that environmental issues can have on your construction project.
To register for this November 3rd Environmental Compliance Solutions webinar, visit augustmackevents.webex.com.
To register for this November 3rd Environmental Compliance Solutions webinar, visit augustmackevents.webex.com.
Join us if you are in an industry that uses highly hazardous chemicals in its process, and would like to know if you fall under OSHA Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals standard (29 CFR 1910.119).
To register for this November 18th Environmental Health and Safety Program webinar presented by one of the environmental compliance specialists at August Mack Environmental, visit augustmackevents.webex.com.
To register for this November 18th Environmental Health and Safety Program webinar presented by one of the environmental compliance specialists at August Mack Environmental, visit augustmackevents.webex.com.
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