COVID-19: Leverage Technology for Efficient COVID-19 Response 
The fast-moving nature of the Covid pandemic has created significant challenges for facility managers. Building occupants want to understand how the building they’re working in impacts their potential exposure to the Corona virus. This interest as led to a lot … Read More
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Are Your Corrective Actions Really Fixing Your Problems?
Many highly successful companies are actively looking for trouble and are pleased when they find it. These companies know that you can’t improve if you don’t know what to improve. They establish various work feedback loops, encourage their managers to … Read More
Get Control of Your Corrective Actions
If you hope to limit repeat incidents, regulatory non-compliances, lawsuits, and serious incidents you need a robust corrective management system. Audits, incident investigations, inspections, assessments and worker input all generate action items. Larger companies may have several thousand to deal … Read More
Electronic Management of Secondary Containers
Chemical safety is an important workplace safety concern for many reasons, as evidenced by several recent industrial accidents. For chemical safety, the knowledge of hazards, as well as easy access to information related to the chemicals for the employees at … Read More
Don’t Confuse Compliance with Safety
The view of safety as little more than employee obedience to the rules may be old school but it remains foundational in the safety practice. Shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear incident, E.L. Zebroski, a nuclear safety analyst, performed … Read More
Return on Investment for Digital EHS Technology
Companies are in the business of making money. Everything else, even if beneficial or complimentary, is secondary to the primary focus of staying in business. As a result, it often seems as though there are competing priorities to production and … Read More
Safety Observation Program Defined
In a previous article, Purpose of Workplace Safety Inspections and Safety Observations, it was discussed that safety observations play a critical role in an overall safety management system. Further, the primary objectives of a safety observation program, ideally, are to … Read More
Employee Engagement Utilizing the Safety Observation Program
Why have employees engage in safety? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), research has shown that increased work-related engagement results in improved employee and customer satisfaction, safety, and overall performance and profits1. Each of the predominant … Read More
Key Elements for the Development of a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP)
Stormwater runoff is a significant contributor to water pollution in our surface water and groundwater3. This runoff travels from its origin, potentially picking up sediments, pollutants, and disease-causing agents and deposits them into nearby bodies of water. While alarming, better … Read More
Elements & Significance of a Safety Data Sheet
A Safety Data Sheet (SDS) is required for any chemical to ensure workplace safety and health. Safety Data Sheets are an essential item in the workplace to learn about the hazards of chemicals and how to handle them safely. Under … Read More