Environmental Health and Safety Services

August Mack’s presence in the Mid-Atlantic was established in 1994 with the opening of a Baltimore office. Then in 1998, Susan Burkett opened the office in southeast Pennsylvania to better serve the growing client base in Pennsylvania. Susan continues to serve clients in a corporate capacity as Principal Engineer for August Mack’s eCAP® Services. In its infancy, the Pennsylvania office provided environmental, health and safety compliance services to foundries, food companies, and metal products...

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...

The primary purpose for most of August Mack’s newsletter articles is to provide useful information related to environmental, health & safety issues. Many times this will take the form of discussing existing, new or proposed regulations. Or it could describe an approach or technology to solve an environmental or safety problem. But as I travel to and visit many of our clients, I realize that many clients have put us into a “box of services” and don’t realize the full breadth of our expertise...

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...

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 1^st & 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 1^st & Green Challenge was an initiative of the 2012 Indianapolis Host Committee to...

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...

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...

• 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...

 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...

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...

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...

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,...

August Mack Environmental can now provide services directly to your military installation!  if you are a Contracting Officer seeking Environmental Health & Safety and remediation services, you have come to the right place!

August Mack provides these services directly to military installations through our GSA Schedule Contract.  These service areas include:

• Environmental Consulting
• Environmental Training
• Remediation and Reclamation

A man in Auburn, Washington disregarded Clean Air Act regulations by knowingly letting untrained workers remove asbestos from a building.  He ended up with a 30-day prison sentence and a $100,000 fine. Don’t let this happen to you! If you have asbestos that needs to be removed let the experts handle it. It is not only illegal but also hazardous to human health if someone other than a certified professional removes asbestos. This is because once asbestos fibers get into the air they can be...

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...