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STC NEWS
Curt Johnson presented "OSHA's HazCom Standard Revision"at the Auditing Roundtable South Central Regional Meeting >>>
Deborah Hunsicker
and Phil Hough presented
"Hiking the Triple Crown: the PCT, CDT and AT" at the Sandpoint Community Hall in Sandpoint, ID. >>> |
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DID YOU KNOW?
OSHA issues new regulatory interpretations covering fall protection, HAZWOPER, and crane operation. >>>
OSHA and DOT join together in a campaign to stop distracted driving and save lives. >>>
OSHA and NIOSH issue hazard alert for silica exposure during hydraulic fracturing operations. >>>
EPA Regional offices provide RICE informational webinars and expand compliance tools. >>>
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 What You Need to Know about NFPA 70E-2012
Carol J. Robinson, CIH, CSP, STC Principal/VP, Oakland, CA
Gerald (Jerry) Reid, STC Program Director, Paradise, CA
NFPA 70E: Standards for Electrical Safety in the Workplace provides essential guidance on assessing electrical hazards and implementing controls. While NFPA 70E-2012 is not explicitly referenced by OSHA electrical standards, OSHA has stated that "industry consensus standards, such as NFPA 70E, can be used by OSHA and employers as guides in making hazard analyses and selecting control measures." >>>
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 A Term To Remember
Incident Energy - The amount of energy impressed on a surface, at a certain distance from the source, generated during an electrical arc event. One of the units used to measure incident energy is calories/centimeter squared (cal/cm2). >>>
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 MAP-21 Impacts on Commercial Motor Vehicles and Haz Mat Transportation
Russ Boesch, CPEA, CHMM, Sr Program Director, Nashua, NH
On July 6, 2012, President Obama signed into law the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21)". This 584-page legislation revises and adds many sections to the U.S. Code, intending to "create a streamlined, performance-based, and multi-modal program to address the many challenges faced by the US transportation system >>>
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 On The Audit Trail: Electrical Safety
Barbara Jo Ruble, QEP, CPEA, President, Baltimore, MD Almost every compliance audit I do results in one or more findings related to electrical safety, from the ubiquitous improper use of extension cords and power strips to high risk issues like uncontrolled work on energized equipment. These situations are clear indicators of gaps in the safety management system. Let's consider some example cases. >>> |
Fortune Cookie Wisdom:
Education and Intelligence Are Not the Same Thing
Curt Johnson, CPEA, STC Senior Program Director, Richmond, TX
According to sustainability reports, few things are more important than training. But for every proclamation about the number of training hours, completeness percentages, on another spreadsheet someone has multiplied training hours by pay rate. Training costs big money. >>>
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 Who said EHS can't be fun? We are adding a new feature to our quarterly newsletters - EHS puzzle contests. >>>
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STC Webinar
Electrical Safety: Basic Principals and Hazard Controls
Date: Thursday August 23, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Free! All are welcome
In 2010, contact with electrical current resulted in 164 fatalities among US workers in private industry. That's more than 3 per week on average. How well are your workers protected from electrical hazards? This free webinar will help you:
- Sharpen your awareness of electrical hazards;
- Understand legal and other requirements for electrical safety;
- Establish and implement controls that protect employees; and
- Minimize the opportunity for business interruption.
Our presenter will be STC President, Barbara Jo Ruble, QEP, CPEA. Barb has more than 30 years of experience helping corporations to develop, assess, and improve environmental, health and safety management systems and compliance programs. She is the primary author of OHSAS 18001/OSHA-VPP Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems: A Complete Implementation Guide, published by Specialty Technical Publishers of Vancouver, Canada. She has assisted clients in a variety of industries to implement environmental and safety management systems and has performed more than 200 EHS audits industrial facilities worldwide. Her solution-oriented approach allows her to put EHS issues in laymen's language and find practical solutions to complex problems.
Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/572482826
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Upcoming Events
 Kathryn Nobrega will be attending the NAEM New England Local Networking Group's "Beat the Heat" networking event. This event will be held on August 9, 2012 at the Henderson House is Weston, MA. The New England Local Networking Group is NAEM's local networking group for EHS and sustainability leaders in the Boston area. The event is open to NAEM members and non-members. Registration for the networking event can be found at http://www.naem.org/?LNG_New_England
 Barbara Ruble and Melanie Powers-Schanbacher will be attending The Auditing Roundtable's (AR) 2012 Fall National Conference to be held September 5-7, 2012 at the Baltimore Hyatt Regency in Baltimore, MD. The meeting will include presentations on supply chain auditing, EHS auditing and performance, and emerging trends in auditing technology. Keynote speakers for this conference include Terri Morrison co-author of nine books, including Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More Than Sixty Countries and Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the World, and Richard Fairfax, Deputy Assistant Secretary for OSHA. Popular small discussion groups on industry sectors and special interest topics are also scheduled. A CEU training course entitled "Ethics in EHS Auditing" will be held on the evening of September 4, 2012. A copy of the latest agenda for this meeting and registration details can be found on The Auditing Roundtable's website. See www.auditing-roundtable.org and look for "News & Events". 
Martin Bermudez will be a speaker at the ASSE San Francisco Chapter's meeting on September 18, 2012. He will be presenting an overview of OSHA 2012 Hazard Communication Standard update and the changes made by the agency to align this rule with the Global Harmonization Standard. More information about this meeting can be found on the ASSE San Francisco Chapter's website (see http://sanfrancisco.asse.org/)
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Closing Headline
We hope you have enjoyed this quarterly newsletter. If you would like more information regarding any of these articles, I invite you to contact our team members. You can find contact details for our team members on our website - www.specialtytechnicalconsultants.com.
And I hope you will register for our August webinar, Electrical Safety: Basic Principals and Hazard Controls. Return to Top
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Questions about this Newsletter?
Melanie Powers-Schanbacher
Telephone: 908.707.4001
Email: mpowers@stcenv.com |
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