Over the years, the August Mack
Pennsylvania office has expanded services to include compliance,
environmental due diligence, site investigation, and remediation
services. Similar to the expansion of services, the client
base has expanded and includes a wide variety of industrial and
service industries. Numerous clients were served by the
Pennsylvania office in 2012 and projects included compliance
audits, MSDS database development and maintenance, litigation
support, air permits, MACT...
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Don't
forget to
register for the free webinar tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.
titled "EH&S Compliance Overview." This webinar will be an
overview of a number of the basic environmental, health and safety
(EH&S) compliance requirements for industrial and commercial
facilities. Topics will be briefly reviewed and will include
EH&S requirements related to air, waste, wastewater, oil
storage, chemical reporting, hazard communication, personal
protective equipment, hazard assessment, lockout/tagout,...
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Register
now for the free December 6th webinar titled "EH&S
Compliance Overview." This webinar will be an overview of a number
of the basic environmental, health and safety (EH&S) compliance
requirements for industrial and commercial facilities. Topics will
be briefly reviewed and will include EH&S requirements related
to air, waste, wastewater, oil storage, chemical reporting, hazard
communication, personal protective equipment, hazard assessment,
lockout/tagout, confined space, and emergency...
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Have you recently reviewed your
various environmental, health & safety plans? Many of these
plans require some frequency of review. And as we all know, things
change and plans can get outdated. Maybe it's even time to
completely re-do your plan if it no longer is meeting the
requirements or objectives. If you need outside help in confirming
your EH&S plans are adequate, call Tom Anderson at
317.916.3105.
August
Mack Environmental will be exhibiting as well as presenting at the
Mid American Safety, Health & Environmental Expo in Osage
Beach, MO on May 2-3. Look up Eric Emmett or Nancy Wade if
you plan to attend this event.
Next week August Mack will be
speaking on "What's New in Environmental", as well as exhibiting a
booth at the Mid America Safety, Health & Environmental Conference
& Expo at the Tan Tar Resort in Osage Beach, Missouri. The
conference, commonly referred to as the "Mid Am Conference", will
feature over eighty education workshops on a variety of health and
safety topics. Be sure to check out the event website at the link
above if you are interested.
Eric Emmett, who will be speaking,
is an...
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Last week August Mack's Lancaster,
Penn
sylvania
office hosted a career day for a middle student in the local
community. The student, who demonstrated a strong interest in
a future career doing environmental work, was able to experience
many daily tasks in the life of an environmental consultant. For
example they began the day with a working group conference call,
prepared information for meetings, learned about health and safety
training and emergency action/fire prevention plans. By the end...
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I hope when you hear these words and phrases you think of August
Mack Environmental:
- Environmental Compliance Solutions
- Job Hazard Analysis
- Environmental Health and Safety Plan
- Asbestos Survey
- Phase 1 Environmental Assessments
- And the list goes on.........
Call Tom Anderson at 317.916.3105 with questions.
August Mack Environmental offers
safety services to our clients. We can help develop your
lockout/tagout program, perform a safety audit, as well as numerous
other types of safety projects. But safety is also very important
in many of the environmental jobs we perform for a
client. Since many of our projects include environmental
remediation activities, we must keep safety at the top of our
mind. These projects have hazards that must be identified and
a health & safety plan must be developed...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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