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EHS Technology Week 2025: A Review

As EHS Daily Advisor’s EHS Technology Week wraps up, let’s recap the various content offerings that became available throughout the week. A special thanks to Avetta, Cority, Ideagen, Intelex, KPA, and SlateSafety for sponsoring. Monday, March 24 Back to Basics | Back to Basics: Using Computer Vision to Identify Safety Risks Back to Basics is a weekly feature that […]

Faces of EHS: William Palmer on the Value of Safety Tech

William Palmer is an experienced EHS leader and product marketing manager at Cority, an enterprise EHS and sustainability software provider. As EHS Daily Advisor celebrates EHS Technology Week 2025, Palmer highlighted emerging safety tech as “a powerful enabler that can augment human expertise and fuel more informed decision-making.” Over the past 20 years, Palmer has […]

Brownfields Reauthorization Act Passes Senate Committee

In February, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee unanimously passed the Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025, which is legislation to reauthorize the EPA’s brownfields program, and the Strategies to Eliminate Waste and Accelerate Recycling Development (STEWARD) Act, which is legislation to improve our nation’s recycling and composting systems. “The Brownfields Reauthorization Act of […]

OSHA Cites SeaWorld for Killer Whale Trainer’s Injuries

SeaWorld’s Orlando theme park faces $16,550 in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines after a park employee was injured during a training exercise with a killer whale, the agency announced March 21. An agency investigation concluded that the trainer wasn’t properly protected from hazards while working with the whale. OSHA cited SeaWorld with a […]

Ask the Expert: Technology as a Catalyst for EHS Excellence

In our latest installment of Ask the Expert, brought to you by KPA, we hear from Monica Patel, Product Manager at KPA, about using EHS technology effectively. Technology in environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance is an indispensable tool—especially as organizations face increasingly complex regulatory requirements. Leveraging the right technological solutions can help you transform […]

EPA Reaches $50,000 Consent Decree in SDWA Case

The EPA recently announced a consent decree with the operators of the Oasis Mobile Home Park in California to resolve violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The consent decree requires the park’s operators to upgrade its drinking water and wastewater systems and pay a $50,000 penalty. “EPA is wholeheartedly committed to ensuring that […]

Wastewater Standards Revisions for Oil and Gas Extraction and Coal Power Plants

On March 12, 2025, the EPA made two announcements: Background The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires the EPA to revise industry-wide wastewater treatment limits, called effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs), to keep pace with innovations in pollution control technology. “[ELGs] are national industry-specific wastewater regulations based on the performance of demonstrated wastewater treatment technologies (often called […]

Back to Basics: Using Computer Vision to Identify Safety Risks

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine the use of computer vision to identify and mitigate the causes of workplace incidents. It’s hard to have a discussion about technology in environment, health, and safety (EHS) without mentioning artificial […]

EHSDA Song of the Week: Changes

On the EHS On Tap podcast this week, Dr. Thomas Krause talked about how organizations can change their safety culture and the important role of leadership. With this in mind, the song of the week is David Bowie’s song “Changes.” Featuring Rick Wakeman of Yes on piano, the song was the first single from Bowie’s […]

Looking Ahead to EHS Technology Week 2025

Join us March 24-28 for a full week of online events and digital resources around EHS technology. Register for events today. Learn how to incorporate technological tools and systems to keep your organization safe and up-to-date on all technological trends. Monday, March 24 Panel Session | Improve Workplace Safety with AI Time: 2 p.m. EDT Sponsored by: KPA, Intelex Moderator: Jay Kumar, Editor-in-Chief, EHS Daily […]