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Volume 2, Issue
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June 28-- Welcome to another issue
of 3E HazMat Matters. Please forward
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In this
Issue:
Ask the 3Experts
Tips N Tricks
3E In
the News
Industry Articles: News You Can
Use
Events
Ask the 3Experts.....................................................................................................
Question: Is there a TSCA equivalent
inventory for Europe? What is the difference between the
EINECS, ELINCS and No Longer Polymer lists?
The European
Union has not created a TSCA-style list to use as chemicals
inventory in Europe. Rather, they have created a system that
differentiates between three categories of
substances:
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Existing substances are listed in EINECS...( more) -
Newly-notified substances are those substances
placed on the European market after 1981, which have not been
listed in EINECS...( more) -
Polymers, in general are exempted from
notification requirements, unless they contain more than 2% of a
monomer not listed in EINECS...( more)
Read the full explanation here.
Tips N
Tricks................................................................................................................
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3E Online program simple and easy for your general
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The bypass link will enable employees to access
the 3E Online program and search for an MSDS without logging in
with a user name and password. This encrypted link can be
placed on an employee's desktop or on an internal intranet
site.
Simply contact your 3E Service Integration
Specialist for additional information and IT
requirements.
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3E In the
News............................................................................................................
Japan Chemical Week
interviewed 3E Company CEO & President Robert S. Christie
about the acquisition of Ariel Research Corporation. Read the
interview here.
Industry Articles: News You Can
Use..................................................................
From Occupational
Hazards
Administration Wants Chemical
Security Regulation
In Senate testimony on June 15, a
Bush administration official for the first time clearly endorsed
mandatory security requirements for chemical sites and acknowledged
that voluntary industry efforts alone are insufficient to protect
public health and the economy. Read the full story here.
OSHA
Official Urges Agency Release Beryllium Exposure Data
More than 2 months after OSHA disclosed that 10 of 271
inspectors tested are now sensitized to the highly toxic metal
beryllium, putting them at risk for an incurable and potentially
fatal lung disease, the agency is still resisting calls that it
release the concentrations of beryllium found at each inspection
where a sensitized employee conducted sampling. Read the full story
here.
From HazMat
Management Magazine
Environment Canada publishes final regulations for hazardous
wastes
Regulations to improve Canada's management of the export and
import of hazardous wastes and hazardous recyclable materials were
finalized June 1. Read the full story here.
******************Congratulations Southern
Company!*********************
From
Environmental Protection
EPRI
honors Southern Company and Georgia Power's Plant Yates for
leadership in mercury emissions control
technology
The
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) presented 2005 Technology
Transfer Achievement Awards to Southern Company and the staff and
management of Georgia Power's Plant Yates in a ceremony on June 2 at
the plant, near Newnan, Ga. These awards recognize the significant
contribution Southern Company is making to help the electric
generation industry develop and evaluate technologies for
controlling mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Read the full story here.
Attention hospital and healthcare
providers!
From
Hospital Management Newsletter
JCAHO Imposters on the
Rise
Terrorists may be behind a recent spate of incidents
in which people posed as JCAHO surveyors, doctors, or government
officials to gain access to hospitals. Experts in hospital security
and terrorism say the most likely explanation for these imposters'
attempts to gain access is that they are collecting information for
future attacks on health care facilities.
Word of the
imposters has spread quietly through the health care community in
the past year, but the problem gained more attention recently when
the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
issued warnings about people posing as surveyors to gain access to
facilities. JCAHO has received three reports in the past four months
about such imposters. (Read the Joint Commission's warning at
www.jcaho.org/accredited+organizations/security.htm.) In all three cases, the
imposters fled after being asked for proper identification.
Joe Cappiello, vice president for accreditation field
operations with JCAHO, urges administrators to question anyone
claiming to be a Joint Commission surveyor at your facility. He also
offers these tips:
- Real Joint Commission surveyors rarely
visit a facility outside of normal working hours, roughly 7 a.m.
to 7 p.m.
- They often do not visit on a
weekend.
- If they do show up outside of normal
working hours, they will go to the main entry point, show their
identification, and ask to speak to the senior administrator in
house or the administrator on call. They will not ask the first
person they contact to show them around or to provide
information.
At a minimum, take these steps to foil imposters:
1. Ask the
visitors to show their Joint Commission identification
badges.
2. Examine
the letter authorizing their visit. If the surveyors are not
expected for a scheduled survey, they will have a letter addressed
to the head of the organization signed by Russell Massaro, MD,
executive vice president of accreditation operations for the Joint
Commission. The letter will explain who they are and why they are
there.
3. If
there is any doubt about the legitimacy of the credentials or other
concerns, call your local Joint Commission account representative.
Events.........................................................................................................................
Tradeshows
& Conferences - Stop by and see 3E at the following
events:
NRF (National Retail
Federation) Loss Prevention Conference & Exhibition
June
27-29
San Diego, CA
ASHE
(American Society for Healthcare Engineering) 42nd Annual Convention
& Technical Exhibition)
July 11-12
Anaheim,
CA
AHRMM
(The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials
Management)
July 25-26
Anaheim, CA
Wilmington Regional Safety &
Health School
July 28-29
Wilmington, NC
*************************************SAVE THE
DATE! *******************************************
If
you're planning to attend the Fall SCHC (Society
for Chemical Hazard Communication) Meeting in Arlington, VA, plan to
attend our Ariel User Group
Event, September
28-30! Ariel customers are encouraged
to attend this meeting where we will provide in-depth, hands-on
training, introduce new features, functionality and unveil new
content that will be included in the next release of Ariel
WebInsight. Watch for more details in the coming weeks or
contact us with questions at info@3ecompany.com.
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Speaking
Engagements:
Join 3E Founder, Jess Kraus on
Wednesday, June 29 at the NEHA (National
Environmental Health Association) 69th Annual Conference &
Exhibition. Kraus will be presenting, "A Study of
MSDS Quality and Chemical Inventory Accuracy". The
NEHA Meeting will be held at the Rhode Island Convention
Center.
3E HazMat Management Web Seminar
Series:
3E is always looking for topics of interest to you
to include in our HazMat Management Web Seminar Series. Email
your topic ideas to info@3ecompany.com.
Join guest speaker, Susan
McLaughlin, MBA, CHSP, MT(ASCP)SC, of SBM Consulting,
for:
"EPA Issues in
Healtchare"
Healthcare organizations have
traditionally been primarily focused on issues of compliance with
the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
(JCAHO), and secondarily with OSHA. The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is increasingly looking at healthcare compliance with
EPA regulations because the industry is seen as a contributor to
toxic chemicals in the environment. In general, hospital safety
staff have not had as much interaction with EPA
regulations.
During this web seminar, 3E's
special guest speaker, Susan McLaughlin, MBA, CHSP, MT(ASCP)SC, of
SBM Consulting, will provide a high-level overview of EPA
regulations that impact health care organizations, identifying key
issues that would be reviewed by an EPA inspector.
Highlights of the Seminar will
include:
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Reviewing current EPA
compliance and enforcement activities in healthcare
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Opportunities to partner with
the EPA to achieve compliance
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References to web-based tools
to aid in the understanding of and compliance with the EPA
requirements
Date: August
16th
Time: 8:00
am (PST)
Location: Internet (for both audio and
visual)
Don't wait, register
today! Click here.
Miss one of our seminars?
3E has made many of our Web Seminars, part of the 3E HazMat
Management Web Seminar Series, available for replay, including our
most recent seminars:
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HazMat, Homeland
Security and International Requirements: What Companies Need to
Know About Shipping HazMat
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What Companies Need to
Know About OSHA's Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium:
Proposed Rule
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Maximizing Value
Creation Through Integration
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Are you Ready for
REACH? Implications of the Proposed
New European Chemicals
Policy"
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Best Practices in MSDS
Authoring
Click here
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this information on to any of your colleagues who may benefit from
this information.
If you have any questions
about this program, please email info@3ecompany.com.
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