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Tyson Foods was recently fined over $263,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for, in part, endangering workers by exposing them to peracetic acid without providing personal protective equipment (PPE). But, environmental, health and safety (EHS) managers at meat and poultry processing facilities are not the only ones who should worry about peracetic […]
By Abby Ferri, CSP Did you know that OSHA’s new Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) standard adds to your Hazard Communication training requirements? It requires your training to be a bit lengthier than usual by specifying topics to be covered in training for employees who are exposed to RCS. The standard requires that OSHA’s existing Hazard […]
Shipping certain pharmaceuticals is getting a bit easier now that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has been issuing special permits for take-back drugs. Yesterday we reviewed how PHMSA’s special permits work and looked at the general requirements DOT-SP 20255 for take-back drugs. Today we will talk about […]
In its spring 2016 regulatory agenda, the EPA set a December 2016 completion date for its final revisions of regulations implementing Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 112(r), the Risk Management Program (RMP). Since issuing the first RMP rule in 1996, the Agency has revised the requirements at least six times. But the most recent proposed […]
There is growing interest in which chemicals the EPA will select for its initial risk evaluations under the reformed Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) signed by President Obama June 22, 2016. Under the law, one of the Agency’s first tasks is to designate 10 chemicals for evaluation no more than 180 days after enactment. The […]
To placard, or not to placard, that is the question. While it’s a general truth that each person who offers for transportation or transports any hazardous material must comply with applicable placarding requirements, fortunately there are many instances when placarding a shipment of hazardous materials is not required by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) […]
Q. Can a Hazardous Waste determination be made for dust waste using only the Kst value (ASTM Standard Test Method E 1226)?
Eight environmental and public health groups have petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to order the EPA to update the federal dust-lead hazard standards and the definition of lead-based paint under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Shipping certain pharmaceuticals is getting a bit easier now that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has been issuing special permits for take-back drugs. We’ll review how PHMSA’s special permits work and take a look at DOT-SP 20255 for take-back drugs.
In July 2015, the city water supply in Flint, Michigan, was revealed to be disastrously unsafe. In fact, the water quality in Flint had been poor for years, but it wasn’t until an independent study conducted by a professor from Virginia Tech University was released in September 2015, that steps were taken to reduce residents’ […]