INDIANAPOLIS - January 20, 2012 - August Mack Environmental, Inc. (August Mack), a full-service environmental, health and safety (EH&S) consulting firm, is pleased to announce being named the winner of the carbon savings challenge in the business category of the 1st & Green Challenge. The August Mack team, comprised of 26 employees, helped to offset 20,767 units of carbon and saved 42,672 gallons of water. The 1st & Green Challenge was an initiative of the 2012 Indianapolis Host Committee to...
Read More »August Mack is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2012 Indiana Safety &
Health Conference & Expo March 12-14 in Indianapolis,
Indiana. "Safety Gets the Checkered Flag" is the theme for this
year's event, and from looking at the agenda, there
will be no shortage of interesting and informative topics
covered.
In additional to August Mack's participation as an exhibitor, August Mack's Principal Engineer for Compliance Services, Chuck Staehler, will be speaking on "What Safety Professionals Should...Read More »
In additional to August Mack's participation as an exhibitor, August Mack's Principal Engineer for Compliance Services, Chuck Staehler, will be speaking on "What Safety Professionals Should...Read More »
Knowing what to expect should assist in determining the current compliance status with any applicable environmental policy. This is generally accomplished by conducting a baseline compliance audit. The audit involves evaluating the various applicable environmental regulations (CAA, CWA, RCRA, SARA, CERCLA, and EPCRA) as previously mentioned. The goal of the audit is to evaluate compliance and deficiencies with respect to permitting, reporting, monitoring, record keeping, and limitations...
Read More »In order to successfully fulfill our mission of providing expertise, innovation and commitment, we are always looking for ways to engage and inform our clients. In 2005 we started our free webinar program as a new avenue for sharing the valuable expertise of August Mack employees to the public. Over the years we have presented hundreds of webinars to thousands of attendees. In fact, in October we celebrated our 6th anniversary of providing educational webinars on a variety of...
Read More »Taken from our newsletter
file:
All employers are required to instruct workers on health and safety
(H&S) regulations and the hazards each employee may face while
on the job. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) has promulgated H&S standards that have an effect on
employers and their employees within the United States.
Employers are required to have a comprehensive safety program that includes site-specific safety information, if the program is applicable to the workplace....
Read More »Is your facility prepared to maintain its environmental compliance throughout the year? Many manufacturing companies are struggling with ways to cost costs while still producing a high quality product and meeting the needs of their employees. One area that tends to be continually looked at from a cost-savings perspective is environmental, health and safety (EH&S). Often times, it is common for facilities to cut EH&S costs to save on overall operating expenses with the hope they will not be...
Read More »A reprint of one of our popular
articles:
Hazardous material regulations are often found to be confusing and
dense, and in our experience people often are not even clear on the
delineation between a hazardous material and a hazardous waste. In
response to the frequent questions we receive on this topic we have
prepared a brief primer on hazardous materials management.
First, a few key words need to be defined:
- Solid Waste - any discarded material that is (1) abandoned, (2) recycled, burned to...
Having just attended the 2011 National Safety Council's Congress and Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone about the IS0 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard (OHSAS) (ISO 18001). ISO 18001 was introducted in 2007 and can be applied to any facility that wishes to:
- Establish an OH&S management system to eliminate or minimize risk to employees and other interested parties who may be exposed to OH&S risks associated with...
Happy Halloween from August Mack!
August Mack specializes in environmental, health and safety
compliance; environmental due diligence; environmental site
remediation; and sustainable business strategies to the industrial,
legal, financial, health care and government sectors throughout
North America. August Mack has offices in Indiana, Michigan,
Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania. For more information on August
Mack's environmental, health and safety services, visit
www.augustmack.com or
call...
Phase 1 Site
Assessments are done for a number of reasons. Below are
common examples of why you would order a Phase 1:
- Purchase of real property (property or personal property) by a person or entity not previously on title
- Contemplation by a new lender to provide a loan on the subject real estate
- Partnership buyout or principal redistribution of ownership
- Application to a public agency for change of use or other discretionary land use permit
- Existing property owner's desire to understand toxic...
Hiring an environmental compliance
consultant will add credibility to your result in
the eyes of your external stakeholders. These individuals or firms
usually have an already established relationship with the
environmental governing bodies and are knowledgeable in how to
submit reports correctly.
If you suspect a violation may be present or you become aware that a facility should have been complying with a law but has not, a consultant can come in and offer environmental compliance solutions.
If you suspect a violation may be present or you become aware that a facility should have been complying with a law but has not, a consultant can come in and offer environmental compliance solutions.
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On August 21, 1999, arsonists set
fire to an estimated seven million tires at the Kirby Scrap Tire
Facility located in Sycamore, Ohio. This would later be classified
as one of the largest tire fires in the state’s history and would
take approximately 250 firefighters three weeks to
extinguish.
The former tire collection facility is situated on 140 acres located in Sycamore, Ohio. The scrap tire facility started collecting tires in the 1950s and, at the time of the fire, contained an estimated...
Read More »Abandoned sites can be damaging to the environment and can lead to expensive cleanups. Take for example the former Dayton Tire and Rubber Facility. In 1987, vandals entered the closed tire and rubber plant to recover salvageable materials. While removing cooper cores from electric transformers remaining at the facility, the vandals drained the Askerol (PCB containing) transformer oil onto the ground. The oil ended up making its way into a nearby creek costing more than $8 million in cleanup...
Look around, everything we do today is done electronically. In the eWorld, we can find the answer to almost every question in minutes rather than hours, days or weeks. However, with all of this information available at our fingertips it is becoming harder and harder to discern what information is valuable and what information is not. This task is even more cumbersome for those individuals responsible for managing environmental, health and safety (EH&S) functions for their company because these...
Read More »The ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
(EMS) standard specifies that an organization shall
establish and maintain procedures to identify potential for and
respond to accidents and emergency situations, and
for preventing and mitigating the environmental impacts that
may be associated with them. With recent natural disasters
such as earthquakes, hurricanes and floods in the news, it seems
that preparing for an emergency would be at the top of
our priority lists. In conducting environmenta...
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Call me (Tom Anderson) at
317.916.3105.
Overwhelmed by trying to keep your
company up to compliance? Let someone else do it for
you! Hiring an outside company to assist in your
environmental and/or health and safety needs will bring great
benefits. Not only will it relieve stress within the company,
but it will bring a fresh set of eyes to look at the company.
If you are interested in compliance assistance, maybe August Mack's
eCAP program is right for you.
Visit http://www.ecapsolution.com/ for information about eCAP services,...
Read More »Visit http://www.ecapsolution.com/ for information about eCAP services,...
August Mack Environmental offers
3-5 free webinars each month on a variety of EH&S topics. To
attend these webinars all you need is a computer with an internet
connection and speakers. Sit at the comfort of your own desk and
learn the latest on EH&S issues of concern.
Since our founding in 1988, August Mack has been committed to two fundamental principles: superior client service and commitment to employees. As a function of these two principles, we strive toward providing all of our clients with responsive, innovative, client-focused and results-driven solutions aimed at successfully meeting their environmental, health and safety (EH&S) needs. This approach sets us apart from the competition and has allowed us to develop long-term partnerships with numerous...
Read More »A facility’s Environmental Manager is tasked with ensuring compliance with the ever-changing rules and restrictions of today’s environmental policies. If this is a new role it is easy to get overwhelmed and not know where to begin. The following are typically regulated environmental policies and some of the common violations found in these areas.
Clean Air Act
Through the enforcement of the Clean Air Act (CAA), the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeks to protect and enhance
the quality...
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