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Environmental! If you need help with Pennsylvania Environmental
Consulting, call our office at 717.399.9587. We will be able to
provide Environmental Compliance Solutions if needed.
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...
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If you are looking for Environmental Compliance Solutions, read my
article.
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...
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During the last 11 years,
August Mack’s eCAP® program (Compliance Assurance
Program) has expanded and grown from a regional initiative to a
national program that has served more than 100 facilities. The
genesis of the program began in 1999 and the natural evolution has
seen the eCAP program morph into a fully functional sustainable
Environmental Management
System (EMS), currently approved as a Supplemental Environmental Program
(SEP). Applying a tad of revisionist history we
might be inclined to...
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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.
Mos...
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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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Did you plan to perform an
EH&S audit this year but still have not completed it? It is
time to call in the experts and hire August Mack Environmental to
get it done! We not only identify your shortfalls, but more
importantly, we provide Environmental Compliance
Solutions.
A lot has happened with environmental compliance in the past 40
years. Take a look at a US EPA Press Release from 40
years ago this month.
In order for your
ISO 14001 environmental
management system to be consistent with the 2004
version of the standard, your facility must verify
compliance
with environmental regulations
through a documented third-party environmental compliance audit. August
Mack Environmental, Inc. has assisted clients with their
environmental
consulting needs by performing third-party environmental compliance auditing in
states throughout North American including Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan and Missouri.
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When August Mack Environmental
implements eCAP (Compliance Assurance Program) at your facility,
you are not getting a single environmental compliance consultant
but rather a whole team in the background. No one person can
be an expert at everything, thus depending upon the issue, the
Account Manager for your facility will tap into the expert
resources within August Mack.
Join us on December 13th for a
webinar describing what August Mack Environmental’s Compliance
Assurance Program has done for more than 100 facilities in the past
11 years. We will explain why many companies chose to utilize this
program to either support or supplement the EH&S compliance
activities at their facilities. What started out as a revolutionary
concept more than 11 years ago, is now a well developed program
with many years of experience built into our systems. At the end of
the day,...
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During my
internship, I shadowed one of the senior managers and a
project manager on a Title V permit renewal. We had a two-hour
meeting with our client to review potential changes in the
operation of the plant potentially resulting in modifications in
the existing air permit. After the meeting, we toured
the facility and our client briefed me on the processes and
operations of the plant. It was an awesome experience for me to be
able to sit in for the day and learn from the best.
Bridget is a...
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Last week I have been updating the compliance assistance
program (eCAP®) website for our clients. The
website maintains the client’s documents for each module they have
in their eCAP® program. I cleaned up
individual client webpages by stacking old documents and organizing
the newer documents. This way our clients have easy access to their
compliance documents without having to mess with organizing them on
their own.
Bridget is an intern from Indiana University at August Mack for the
summer. She...
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The work week is coming to a close
so kick back and enjoy the weekend. But when you show back up at
work next week, do you still have EH&S issues that need to be
resolved? If so, do yourself a favor and call Tom Anderson at
317.916.3105 to see if we can be of assistance. We provide
environmental compliance solutions, sustainability solutions, and
safety-related services.
Earlier in the summer I shadowed a project manager at one of August
Mack’s clients for their monthly storm water pollution prevention
plan (SWPPP) and spill prevention control and countermeasure (SPCC)
inspections. The facility we were inspecting is a job shop iron
foundry that produces many different types of castings. I was able
to walk through the facility during production hours and follow the
project manager as she went through the routine inspection. This
was a great opportunity for me to...
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The US EPA is publishing its
rule to require more environmental compliance reporting of
chemical information. This rule increases the amount of
information that chemical manufacturers/importers must
provide the US EPA regarding the potential risks that the chemical
poses to human health and the environment. The rule is called
the chemical data reporting rule (CDR rule) and falls under
the Toxic Substances Control Act inventory update rule
(IUR). The rule also requires...
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Some time in August, our company
should be awarded their 1,000th project of the year!!! We are very
proud of that fact and also very thankful to our hundreds of
clients who have put their faith in our expertise, commitment, and
innovative strategies to solve their EH&S needs. If you are
looking for an Environmental Compliance Solution to your problem,
please call one of our offices. Or maybe you are solving your own
problems but just need some environmental compliance assistance on
the...
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