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...
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...
In 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) for new and existing industrial, commercial and institutional boilers and process heaters. The standards required certain boilers and process heaters meet air pollution limits reflecting the application of maximum achievable control technology (MACT). These new rules are commonly referred to as “Boiler MACT” standards.
The 2004 standards were soon challenged and vacated by...
Read More »Does your facility or organization
need some type of Environmental Health and Safety Plan developed?
Do you need an old plan updated? Are you not sure if you need a
plan? If the answer to any of these questions is "yes," consider
calling Tom Anderson at 317.916.3105.
Depending
upon activities occurring at your facility, you may have a variety
of Environmental Health & Safety Plans that are required for
your operations. In some instances it may make sense to integrate
some of the various plans. Many times, the decision on whether to
integrate plans may be a personal preference. There are both pros
and cons to integrated plans. But the very first step is to
determine what plans are applicable to your facility/operations.
That is where the value of an EH&S...Do you have an EH&S Plan that
needs to be updated? Maybe you don't have a plan at all and need
one! Here are just a few of the many plans that we can help you
with:
- Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan
- SPCC Plan
- Lockout/Tagout Plan
- Bloodborne Pathogens Plan
- Hazard Communication Plan
And the list goes on and on and on.........
Call Tom Anderson at 317.916.3105.
- What is a
workplace emergency?
- How do you
protect yourself, your employees, and your business?
- What is an emergency action plan?
To learn the answers to these and other workplace emergency questions, visit OSHA’s “How to Plan for Workplace Emergencies and Evacuations” webpage by clicking here.
August Mack Environmental has locations in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. If you need assistance with health, safety, or environmental compliance, visit www.augustmack.com or... Read More »
I am Tom
Anderson with August Mack Environmental. August Mack is a
full-service environmental, health and safety compliance consulting
firm that has been in business for over 22 years. Our goal is to
provide common sense business solutions to any EH&S issue when
companies and organizations need help from the outside. We do a
wide range of work but it typically falls into several areas of
expertise. One major area is our compliance group that
concentrates on many of the day-to-day compliance...
Read More »The Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 provides the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) the right to perform inspections and
investigations of our U.S. workplaces. In order to determine if
companies are following the standards issued by the agency,
compliance officers are given the right to access our businesses,
often times with little to no notice. Please join us to learn what
to expect during an OSHA inspection and discover some new ways to
prepare yourself and your...
Read More »I am Tom Anderson with August Mack Environmental. August Mack is a
full-service environmental, health and safety compliance consulting
firm that has been in business for over 22 years. Our goal is to
provide common sense business solutions to any EH&S issue when
companies and organizations need help from the outside. We do a
wide range of work but it typically falls into several areas of
expertise. This includes transactional type work such as Phase One
Environmental Site Assessments and Phase...Read More »
Environmental Closure Achieved
Using "Lines of Evidence"
Tuesday, October 5th - 10 a.m.
House Enrollment Act (HEA) 1162 requires the Indiana Department of Environmental management to consider risk based solutions to environmental impacts. An important part of risk based thinking is the use of “Multiple Lines of Evidence”. This Webinar with summarize risk based closure thinking and explain how “Lines of Evidence” are used in the process of obtaining environmental closure. You will learn what...Read More »
Tuesday, October 5th - 10 a.m.
House Enrollment Act (HEA) 1162 requires the Indiana Department of Environmental management to consider risk based solutions to environmental impacts. An important part of risk based thinking is the use of “Multiple Lines of Evidence”. This Webinar with summarize risk based closure thinking and explain how “Lines of Evidence” are used in the process of obtaining environmental closure. You will learn what...Read More »
The responsibilities of an entry supervisor for a confined space are:
- Know space hazards including information on the mode of exposure, signs or symptoms and the consequences of exposure
- Verify emergency plans and specified entry conditions such as permits, tests, procedures and equipment before allowing entry
- Terminate entry and cancel permits when entry operations are completed or if a new condition exists
- Verify that rescue services are available and that the means for summoning them are operable
- T...
When preparing for an employee to enter a confined space, the entry supervisor and crew should pre-plan the entire job focusing on identifying potential hazards and the elimination/control of the hazards. The program coordinator also should be able to provide assistance during the pre-planning process. The pre-planning process must consider at the least the following items:
- Energy hazards and needed Isolation procedures (LO/TO)
- Potential air contaminants, ventilation and air tests needed
- Cleaning...
August Mack Environmental, Inc., a full-service environmental, health and safety (EH&S) consulting firm, is pleased to the promotion of Bennett Thayer to Office Manager for the Dublin, Ohio office. Since joining August Mack in 2004, Thayer has served as a field scientist, staff scientist and project manager.
With more than eight years of experience, Thayer specializes in local, state and federal environmental compliance; environmental, health and safety (EH&S) servicing and reporting;...
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As discussed in an earlier post,
eCAP® has a five-step process that one of our
environmental compliance specialists utilize to implement
eCAP® at any facility. The second step in this process
is compliance review and planning.
During the environmental, health and safety compliance review and
planning process, the eCAP® account team will meet with
your management team to review your current compliance status and
make plans for the year ahead. We evaluate a wide range of
variables, including...
While each environmental, health
and safety (EH&S) audit is unique to the needs of the
facility, the following list identifies the standard areas usually
examined during the environmental compliance auditing
process.
- Air
- Wastewater
- Storm Water
- SPCC Plan
- Waste Plan
- Chemical Reporting
- Other Compliance Issues
eCAP® (Compliance
Assurance Program) was designed to efficiently and effectively
manage the environmental,
health and safety compliance of any facility
regardless of size or geographic location. Today, August Mack
Environmental manages more than 60 facilities throughout the United
States using its environmental management system known as
eCAP®.
We are able to successfully implement this environmental compliance program at any facility due to our five step process:
We are able to successfully implement this environmental compliance program at any facility due to our five step process:
- Environmental, Health and...
29 CFR 1910.38 (b) states:
An emergency action plan must be in writing, kept in the
workplace, and available to employees for review. However, an
employer with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plan orally
to employees. Are you fulfilling this regulatory requirement
if applicable?
August Mack specializes in environmental, health and safety compliance; environmental due diligence; environmental site remediation; and sustainable business strategies to the industrial, legal, financial,...
Read More »August Mack specializes in environmental, health and safety compliance; environmental due diligence; environmental site remediation; and sustainable business strategies to the industrial, legal, financial,...
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