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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 […]
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 […]
Introduction to Hazardous Waste Part Two: Determining Your Generator Status
Welcome to the second installment of our ongoing blog series “Introduction to Hazardous Waste.” In this edition, we’ll cover the basics about how to determine your hazardous waste generator status, and describe the main requirements for each type of generator. If you missed the first post in this series and want to catch up on […]
Using Ergonomics in Our Day-to-Day Lives
Ergonomics is not an overly complicated matter. In fact, most of us already use basic ergonomic principles in our day-to-day lives without realizing it. Where do you store your coffee mug that you use every morning? Where do you fold your clothes before you go to bed? The answers to these questions are a result of basic […]
Wilbur-Ellis Improves Employee Health with VelocityEHS Office Ergonomics Software
We’ve just published another new case study telling the story of how our Office Ergonomics® software has helped an organization improve the health of their employees. Wilbur-Ellis, a global leader in agriculture technology and products, worked with VelocityEHS to assess their workspaces for musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk and implement a participatory ergonomics program to reduce that […]
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 […]
GHS HazCom: A Webinar Spotlight on SDS Compliance
An employee works 35 years for a company operating a dip tank. He spends his days washing grease off equipment parts without protection, not knowing what types of chemicals are in the solvent he uses. After performing his job function over these 35 years, he learns his short-term memory has been heavily impacted due to […]
Implementing Ergonomics Solutions: Gaining Employee Buy-in
The main goal of an ergonomics program is to implement engineering solutions that help fit the job to the person. In an ideal world these solutions are taken into consideration during the workstation design phase. However, this is not always the case. Many ergonomics teams find themselves assessing and modifying workstations that have already been […]
Are You Ready for OSHA’s March 2 Injury Tracking Application (ITA) Deadline?
‘Tis the season for reporting deadlines, and a major approaching deadline is for employers that are subject to OSHA’s “electronic reporting rule” to complete and submit their electronic Form 300A (Summary of Work-Related Injury and Illness) data to OSHA via the Injury Tracking Application (ITA). Are you ready to report? Even more fundamentally, do you […]