A little history The first OHSAS 18001 standard was adopted in 1999 by the International Labor Organization (ILO) to address international disagreements within ISO over a draft health & safety…
OSHA published interim final rule to increase the civil penalties In the July 1, 2016 Federal Register the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published an interim final rule to increase…
U.S. EPA Proposes Approval of Ohio Air Plan / Infrastructure SIP Requirements for the 2012 PM 2.5 On 23 June, 2016 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed approving multiple…
U.S. EPA Proposes Approval and Promulgation of Maryland Air Quality Implementation Plan Air Quality Monitoring Rules On June 17, 2016 the U.S. EPA proposed approving Maryland’s revisions to its Air…
President Obama Signs Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reform Bill into Law On 22 June, 2016 the United State President Obama signed into law the long awaited update to the…
EPA Proposes Change to Rescission of Pre-construction Permits Rule Under The Clean Air Act. On June 14, 2016 the U.S. EPA proposed removing the date restriction of July 30, 1987 from the current…
EPA Finalizes Amendment of Community Right-to-Know Hazardous Chemical Reporting and Hazard Categories. On June 13, 2016 the U.S. EPA finalized its amendment to hazardous chemical regulations under the sections 311…
New BAT for common waste water and waste gas treatment/management systems in the chemical sector. Decision (EU) 2016/902 of 30 May 2016 establishes the conclusions on best available techniques (BAT)…
New water quality amendments that came into force on 14th April, 2016. These are The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/410) and came into force on 14 April…
On June 7, 2016 the United States Senate passed the long awaited update to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which had been passed by the United States House of…