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After four days of leadership-focused content and events, the EHS Daily Advisor’s first-ever EHS Leadership Week is drawing to a close. We’re taking a look back at all of our offerings during this exciting event to revisit some highlights and perhaps draw your attention to a few gems you may have missed!
On February 12, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited an Oak Grove, Missouri, plumbing contractor for two repeated and two serious violations of the agency’s trenching standards. The agency proposed penalties totaling $299,590 for Arrow Plumbing LLC.
Whether you are dealing with subordinates, supervisors, volunteers, or the public, leadership skills are necessary. Leadership involves vision, direction, coordination, and motivation toward achieving desired goals. While it takes time to develop these skills, the ability to lead people and accomplish tasks is a core competency needed by all environment, health, and safety (EHS) professionals.
The Biden administration indicated it will not be reviving the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which should bring a sigh of relief for industry, according to a memo issued on February 12, 2021, to EPA regional administrators by Joseph Goffman, the acting assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation.
In a move welcomed by many, the use of Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) is back as part of settlement agreements in federal environmental enforcement cases.
Thirteen medical and scientific experts urged the Biden administration to take immediate actions to address SARS-CoV-2 inhalation hazards, including issuing an emergency Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard. The SARS-CoV-2 virus causes COVID-19, which was declared a pandemic in March 2020. Signers of the letter to the White House, Centers for Disease Control and […]
For our EHS Leadership Week, Faces of EHS is profiling Crystal Turner-Moffatt, the president, principal consultant, and CEO of the safety firm CDT EHS Consulting LLC. Learn more about Crystal’s barrier-breaking journey as a safety professional and entrepreneur; her deep passion for environment, health, and safety (EHS); her thoughts on the importance of leadership, mentors, […]
The creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the 1970’s signaled the birth of the modern environment, health, and safety (EHS) profession. Since that time, the field has been supported by four foundational considerations—and while these foundations of EHS management hold true today, they are […]
On February 16, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed an update to the agency’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), which would align provisions of the rule with the seventh revision of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) published in 2017 (86 FR 9576). An eighth revised edition was published […]
On February 17, ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) announced approval of a nonregulatory standard for barrier face coverings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The standard establishes minimum care, design, labeling, and performance requirements for reusable barrier face coverings.