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Introduction to EHS Risks, Part Two: Prioritizing Your Risks
Welcome to the second installment of our blog series “Introduction to EHS Risks,” in which we’ll break down how to prioritize your risks using a tool called the risk matrix. In case you missed our first installment, take some time to check it out for an overview of EHS risks, and to learn why you […]
OSHA’s Proposed Rule to Update Electronic Injury and Illness Reporting: What You Need to Know
The pace of new regulatory activity isn’t getting any slower. OSHA just published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would update the Recordkeeping Standard to significantly expand electronic reporting requirements for many establishments, and result in the publication of occupational injury and illness records for those establishments. Not everyone seems to have heard about […]
Using Leading Indicators to Improve Safety Management
There are many articles and webinars on leading indicators at safety conferences and in EHS publications, and everyone rightly agrees they’re good things. But it’s not always clear to the average EHS professional what leading indicators actually are, how they improve safety, and what kinds of factors you need to consider if you’re going to […]
Above the Glass Ceiling: A Conversation with Two VelocityEHS Leaders
In honor of Women’s Herstory Month, I met with two VelocityEHS leaders, Winnie Ip, Chief Operating Officer, and Rachel Kaiser, Vice President of Human Resources, to discuss their experiences as women in the professional world, and at the executive level. First off, let me break down the title of this piece, Above the Glass Ceiling. […]
Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management, Part Three: Managing Hazardous Wastes On-Site
Welcome to Part Three of our ongoing series, “Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management.” In case you missed the previous installments, please check out Part One to review how to determine if your waste is hazardous, and Part Two for a primer on how to determine your generator status and associated compliance obligations. Throughout this series, […]
ISO 14001 Overview, Pt. 2: Maintaining Environmental Compliance and Measuring Performance
Welcome to the second and final installment of our two-part series “An Overview of ISO 14001.” In our first installment, we talked about what an environmental management system is (and isn’t) and how ISO 14001 can help you determine the key environmental aspects of your business. In what follows, we’ll break down some of the […]
Introduction to EHS Risks, Part One: You Don’t Need to Be Big to Benefit from Better Risk Management
Not everyone who manages workplace risk is a professional risk manager, or needs to be one. If you’re an EHS manager at a facility of any size, you need to get a good handle on identifying and controlling all of your EHS risks. You may have trouble finding the guidance you need, especially given the […]
TWH Conference Summary: Integrating Psychosocial Risks into Safety
Psychosocial risks are organizational, management, and interpersonal aspects of the workplace that increase employee mental stress. Sources of psychosocial risks may include job content, workload, schedule, environment, interpersonal relationships at work, and the employee’s role in the organization. These risks work in tandem with environmental physical stressors of the workplace (e.g., noise); both independently and […]
ISO 14001 Overview Pt. 1: Improving Environmental Management
More and more EHS professionals are realizing that environmental management is about more than just maintaining regulatory compliance and avoiding the unpleasantries of failure, like fines and reputational risks. Increasingly, industry leaders are finding the benefits of a robust environmental management system focused on achieving positives like resource conservation and cost savings— rather than just […]
Webinar Recap: How Technology is Changing the Industrial Hygiene Profession
Last week, VelocityEHS hosted an exciting new webinar which took an in-depth look at some of the emerging technologies that are shaping the future of industrial hygiene (IH) and EHS management. Hosted by Dave Risi, CSP, CIH and Principal Solutions Strategist for IH at VelocityEHS, the session delivers a common-sense breakdown of today’s complex EHS […]