An environmental compliance audit is a powerful tool used to determine whether a company follows applicable regulations and to gain an understanding on how to sustain and improve environmental performance going forward. Major benefits of conducting an environmental compliance audit include mitigating your company’s legal and reputation risks, reducing operational inefficiencies, and achieving certification requirements. Risk Mitigation: Environmental audits are an effective

Many of us understand the applicability requirements to report under 40 CFR Part 372 – Toxic Chemical Release Reporting: Community Right-to-Know (referred to as TRI or Form R). A facility must meet the following criteria for a calendar year to be covered under the rule: The facility has 10 or more full-time employees. The facility operated under a listed Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) or North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. The facility manuf

The U.S. EPA will launch the new electronic hazardous waste manifest (e-Manifest) system on June 30, 2018. All hazardous waste shipments from small and large quantity hazardous waste generators requiring a hazardous waste manifest must be submitted to the U.S. EPA for tracking through the e-Manifest system, beginning July 1, 2018. The new system will be used in place of hard copy manifests for the shipment of hazardous wastes for the purposes of compliance with federal and

The compliance date for the new OSHA Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard for General Industry is quickly approaching. This new standard requires employers to limit worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica and take other steps to protect workers by June 23, 2018. Crystalline silica is a common component of sand, stone, rock, concrete, brick, block, and mortar. Exposures to crystalline silica dust occur in common workplace operations involving cutting, sawing, dril