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Smart Growth Could Spur Economic Prosperity, Environmental Sustainability
ArticleSustainability is not just a business management paradigm for Patrick Doherty, Director of Smart Strategy at the New America Foundation: It's the strategic lens that should shape how we build our communities, structure our tax code and prioritize investments. -
Managing Supply Chain Risks through Product Stewardship
ArticleReducing reputational risk by managing product stewardship allows companies to move products around the globe in a way that is safe for workers, consumers, the environment and is ultimately good for business. -
Facilitating Dialogue Drives Engagement, Trust, Business Results
ArticleEmployees directly impact a company's business outcomes; if they are engaged, have clear direction and are supported, the results can be higher productivity and profitability. Sometimes, all employees want is for someone to listen to them. Other times, they want more information so they can make the best decisions. -
What We Can Learn from the Fair Labor Association's Foxconn Audit
ArticleIn February, 2012 the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a multi-stakeholder organization focused upon workers’ rights, inspected three large factories in China, where Foxconn assembles products for leading electronics manufacturers. What can you learn from this audit to protect the workers in your supply chain and the potential risks to your brand? -
Dominion Energy Ohio Partners with Veriforce to Improve Management of Contractor Safety
Article SponsoredFor Dominion, one of the country's largest producers and transporters of energy, safety is the number one core value. Michael Donahue, Manager of Gas Safety and Training for subsidiary Dominion Energy Ohio (formerly Dominion East Ohio), underscores the company's attitude: "We want our workers to go home the same way they came to work - with no injuries - each and every day." -
Managing Compliance in an Era of Shifting EPA Priorities
ArticleAs has been highly publicized, under the Trump Administration, the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has sought to reinvigorate the agency's implementation of the concept known as "cooperative federalism." The terminology certainly sounds promising – but what does it mean? -
Three Keys to Intel’s Global Water Stewardship Program
ArticleAs we all know, water is critical to life on this planet, but you may not know that water is critical to the technology industry - from semiconductor manufacturing to data center cooling as well as office buildings (e.g., cooling towers, landscaping, restrooms, cafés, etc.). -
How EHS&S Professionals can Help Fight the Opioid Epidemic in the Workplace
ArticleThe epidemic is vast, complex, and affects every community in every state in the country. However, because the epidemic has at least some of its origins where we work, you, as an EHS&S professional have the ability to help put the brakes on this crisis. -
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Best Practices for Implementing a Proactive Compliance Program: Part Three
Article SponsoredBeing the change is hugely important to the success and momentum of your proactive EHSQ compliance programs. -
How Can Better Communication Between Investors and Companies Accelerate Corporate Sustainability?
ArticleWhile there is a broad spectrum of investor approaches to ESG, core concepts and approaches can help companies more clearly communicate with investors, with the potential to attract capital and build greater internal and external support for sustainability programs. -
Generation Z... They're Here!
ArticleFor the past few years there has been a lot, and I mean a lot of discussion about the millennial generation. However, most millennials are in their early and mid-thirties and starting families of their own. The early cohorts of Gen Z will be graduating from college and entering the workforce in droves! -
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Adapting to Emerging Regulations with an Eye on Efficiency
ArticleScott Canonico, Regional Manager of EHS for Linn Energy, describes the challenge of translating emerging regulations into business processes that are efficient, consistent and cost-effective. -
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Top Three EHS Culture Killers and How to Fix Them
ArticleFor a company to be truly successful it ultimately requires a number of different cultural characteristics and traits to be in play at the same time. Rather than trying to define their culture as one type or another, companies should instead focus on creating and upholding a well-rounded organizational culture. -
How Modified Guidance and Revised Regulations May Affect Your Facilities
ArticleThe combination of new regulatory requirements under OSHA’s PSM and USEPA’s RMP regulations, whether expressed in the form of revised regulations, or implementing guidance, represents a compliance management risk for many companies. -
TSCA Reform Survival Guide for the EHS&S Professional
ArticlePassage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act brings significant revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) - the framework for managing and reviewing chemicals intended for use in commerce in the United States. -
The Evolution of EHS and Sustainability Metrics
ArticleThe landscape of EHS and sustainability metrics is changing as technology continues to change how businesses use metrics to improve their programs. -
The Benefits of Integrating EHS Management Systems Into Operations
ArticleOver the years, industrial operations have become more systematic and standardized through the implementation of enterprise management systems. Initiatives such as ISO certification, Six Sigma, and lean manufacturing are typically structured around activities that are core to the organization's mission. -
Moving Toward Risk-based EHS Compliance
ArticleKisa Adkins-Baskin, Global Environment Compliance Program Manager with Newell Rubbermaid, explains how the approach to environmental, health and safety compliance is changing within mature companies.
