Category: EHS Management

OSHA Form 300A—What, Who, When, and Where

As the year winds down, it is time to start preparing your Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Form 300A for posting. Today we will review the requirements for Form 300A, and tomorrow we will address various scenarios for recording injuries and illnesses under OSHA’s regulations. General Background Information Under OSHA’s recordkeeping regulation at 29 […]

Two Court Cases Find in Favor of the EPA

EPA’s nonattainment designations of two counties—one in Montana and one in Michigan—under the Agency’s 2010 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide (SO2) were challenged in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in two separate petitions that the court consolidated. According to the court, the two claims had “virtually nothing […]

Changes Issued to Simplify Exceptional Events Rule

EPA’s 2007 Exceptional Events Rule (EER) was intended to give state and local agencies an avenue to remove data about certain types of monitored air pollution from area attainment/nonattainment designations under the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). However, the EER required states to support their applications for data exclusion with analyses that were so […]

House Passes Joint Resolution to Block CPP

The U.S. House welcomed President Obama’s return from the Paris climate change conference by passing a joint resolution to block the EPA from implementing its Clean Power Plan (CPP) to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants.

Out of Sight and Out of Danger: Control the Risks of Working Alone

When Donald Megge arrived for work at 5:30 am at the Fiat Chrysler plant in Detroit on May 5, 2015, he went almost immediately to work on the wastewater filter press in the plant’s wastewater treatment area. At 6:30 am, coworkers found 53-year-old Megge unresponsive; he had been crushed to death in the filter press. […]

Out of Sight, but Still at Risk: Do Your Employees Work Alone?

Working alone can be dangerous, even for the most mundane jobs. In July 2015, James Flannery was just doing his job—delivering pizza to an East Columbus, Ohio, address—when things went wrong. His “customers” shot the 59-year-old delivery man in the chest and robbed him before he was able to flee in his van. He didn’t […]

VPP: Voluntary Protection Benefits Workers and Employers

At thousands of U.S. worksites, OSHA compliance is considered the bare minimum for safety excellence. These workplaces, members of OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), have earned the right to call themselves overachievers when it comes to worker protection.

Webinar Wrap-Up: Tips for Cost-Effective Used Oil Management

Compliance with the used oil management regulations has always posed challenges to generators of used oil—from understanding the applicability of the regulations to identifying any cost-saving opportunities. In a recent webinar titled Used Oil Generators: Cost-Effective Strategies to Stay Compliant with EPA Regulations, speaker David J. Scriven-Young, senior counsel of primarily environmental law, construction, and […]