Chemicals

Workplace safety remains a top priority for organizations across industries in 2024. In an environment marked by a constrained labor market and increasing expectations from both employees and regulators, companies are making significant strides to reduce accidents, minimize associated costs, and enhance their safety cultures. Earlier this year, we conducted a State of the Market […]

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By Phil Molé, MPH Vehicle owners in Winston, Connecticut got quite a surprise when they returned to their car the morning of July 15, 2024. They heard the horn blaring and the radio blasting and saw a full-grown black bear and a cub trapped inside the car. The owners contacted state environmental conservation officials, who […]

Changes occurring within an organization’s operations are inevitable, and it’s imperative that the crucial process of Management of Change (MOC) procedures be completed to assess and address the risks or unintended consequences that stem from changes made.   MOC is a systematic method for identifying and controlling safety, health and environmental risks associated with planned […]

In all my research and study of OSHA workplace standards over the years, I’ve yet to come across a specific requirement that employers must apply and document a job safety analysis (JSA) to comply with an OSHA standard. In fact, you don’t really see any references to JSAs within the text of OSHA’s volume of […]

The countdown continues in the VelocityEHS Blog series on OSHA’s Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards for 2023! We’re down to #6 on the list with the Control of Hazardous Energy Standard, better known as Lockout/Tagout or LOTO. Employees servicing or maintaining machines or equipment are at risk of life altering injuries or death if […]

By Amanda Morton, VelocityEHS Consultant The hierarchy of controls is the framework that safety professionals use to determine the most effective improvements to reduce exposure to hazards in the workplace. Exposures include chemical hazards, physical hazards, biological hazards, and musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk factors such as heavy lifting and repetitive motion (OSHA). One of the […]

By Greg Duncan, MELP, ASP, Sr. EHS & ESG Content Manager, VelocityEHS Compliance with US EPA air emissions regulations is complex, to put it mildly. Depending on your facility’s industrial operations and processes, locations, dates of construction or modification, and potentially numerous other factors, you may be obliged to comply with dozens of air emissions […]

Many people might read the phrase “management of change,” and pretty quickly convince themselves that they understand what it means – managing any changes made. But, what does it mean to actually manage a change?  What is Management of Change?   Management of Change (MOC) is the principle of properly assessing, addressing and controlling the impacts […]