Compliance Archives - November 2013

11/26/2013

New RCRA Exclusion for Solvent-contaminated Wipes

On July 31, 2013, at 78 FR 46448, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated a new final rule to relax hazardous waste management requirements for solvent-contaminated wipes (i.e., shop towels). Solvent-contaminated wipes that are laundered will be conditionally excluded from regulation as solid waste. Solvent-contaminated wipes that are discarded will be...

11/19/2013

Classifying Marine Pollutants

One of the primary categories of environmental hazardous substances are marine pollutants—substances that are toxic to aquatic life...

11/12/2013

The Advantages of the EPA’s Self-Audit Policy

The US Environmental Protection Agency has a system in place that allows you to reduce the civil penalty assessment for a violation of environmental protection regulations. Commonly referred to as the “Self-Audit Policy,” this system is officially titled “Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations...

11/5/2013

The GHS Training Deadline Is Almost Here

By December 1st, all companies subject to OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) must ensure that their employees are trained on the HazCom rules adopted from the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for classifying and labeling chemicals. [29 CFR 1910.1200(j)(1)]...

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