Tag: chemicals
Is Your Facility’s Indoor Air Making Occupants Sick?
If there’s an indoor air quality issue at your facility, a simple test can guide you to a solution, including mold remediation.
EPA Names 2022 Safer Choice Partner Of The Year Award Winners
The Safer Choice Awards honor achievements in the design, manufacture, selection, and use of products with safer chemicals.
OSHA Issues Proposed Rule To Update Hazard Communication Standard
OSHA has issued a proposed rule to update its Hazard Communication Standard to align with the seventh revision of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals.
Hydro Systems’ Chemical IoT Platform
Hydro Connect can help industrial laundries harness, analyze, and use data to cut back on wasted product, emergency maintenance calls, and expensive repairs.
GoatThroat SCP Pumps for Flammable Liquids
The SCP Pump Series is for the transfer of class 1 and class 2 flammable liquids.
Managing PCB Chemicals In The Built Environment
Polychlorinated biphenyls are a mixture of individual chemicals broadly used — and in numerous areas of facilities — until banned in the late 1970s.
New Product Flash: SpillFix by American Green Ventures
SpillFix is an industrial absorbent that cleans hazardous and non-hazardous liquid spills.
Fluorescent Lighting Fixtures, Pre-1979
The EPA has released recommended steps to take for schools with older lighting fixtures in order to reduce potential exposures to harmful levels of PCBs. The guidance — part of EPA’s efforts to address potential PCB exposures in schools — is based on evidence that the older ballasts contain PCBs that can leak when the ballasts fail,
Landmark Chemical Security Legislation Passes House
On November 6, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2868, the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 reauthorizing the DHS program to implement and enforce the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), which are currently set to expire in October 2010.
Removing Unneeded/Dangerous Chemicals From Schools
Working with EPA’s Schools Chemical Cleanout Campaign (SC3), 11 organizations helped to remove an estimated 70,000 pounds of potentially dangerous chemicals from approximately 300 schools.