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Essential Elements for a Successful Safety Survey
If you’re considering conducting a survey to assess your safety and health management system, make sure you cover the basics. Check out this list of key elements to address in your safety survey.
EHS Job Trends: A Look at Training
What does the future hold for environment, health, and safety (EHS) professionals? Where do they get paid the best, and where are prospects dimming? Yesterday we looked at recent trends for safety and health engineers and emergency management directors. Today we will take a peek at what jobs look like for EHS professionals interested in […]
EHS Job Trends—2014 to 2016
What are the best job prospects for environment, health, and safety (EHS) professionals? Where do they get paid the best, and where are prospects dimming? Today and tomorrow, we will take a look at recent trends and projected growth for three jobs critical to EHS. Note: Median salaries for this article have been compiled from […]
What Does 2017 Hold for Workplace Safety?
The new Trump administration taking over this year will likely affect the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) rulemaking and enforcement in the coming years. We know that Trump campaigned on creating jobs and reducing the regulatory burden on business—but we don’t know how this will impact workplace safety and health regulations.
Final RMP Revisions Published
EPA’s final revisions to the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions under 40 CFR 68, also known as the Risk Management Program (RMP), were published in last Friday’s Federal Register. The revisions are intended to improve elements of the RMP, enhance emergency preparedness, and ensure that local emergency response officials and the public have the necessary information […]
SQG or LQG: Which Am I and What Regulations Apply to Me?
Q: Because of removing excess chemical inventories one month this year, I changed from being a Small Quantity Generator (SQG) to a large quantity generator (LQG) so with which set of requirements should I comply and for how long?
6-Year Review of Drinking Water Standards Completed
As required by the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the EPA has completed its third 6-year review of existing drinking water standards and announced that eight standards are candidates for regulatory revisions.
New RCRA Hazardous Waste Export-Import Revisions: How Will EPA’s Final Rule Impact Your Operations?
In a recent webinar titled “New RCRA Hazardous Waste Export-Import Revisions—How EPA’s Final Rule Will Impact Your Operations,” speaker Christopher R. Bryant, senior regulatory consultant at Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., unraveled the complexities of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Hazardous Waste Export-Import Revisions rule, which went into effect on December 31, 2016.
Regulatory Accountability Act Introduced by Republicans Would Eliminate Chevron Deference
On the first day of the 115th Congress, Republicans promptly introduced legislation to explicitly weaken the powers of federal agencies in promulgating regulations. For example, in the House of Representatives, the Regulatory Accountability Act (H.R. 5) brings together six separate reform bills that have already passed the House in the previous Congress. H.R. 5 is […]