Regulatory Information and Support Tools
STC specialists write and regularly update 18 different EHS regulatory information guides, which are published and distributed by Specialty Technical Publishers (STP) of Vancouver, BC, Canada. These publications cover many different aspects of EHS management and compliance.
Audit/Compliance Guides:
- Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide
- Environmental Auditing: California Compliance Guide
- Environmental Auditing – FIFRA Compliance Guide
- Environmental Auditing: Integrated California and Federal
- OSHA Auditing: California Occupational Health and Safety
- OSHA Facilities Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide
- OSHA Construction Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide
- Cal/OSHA Compliance and Auditing Guide
- DOT Hazardous Materials Transportation and Motor Safety Carrier Safety Federal Audit Guide
- Fire Code Management of Hazardous Materials: Essential Guide (covering NFPA 1-UFC, IFC, earlier versions of NFPA and UFC)
- Pipeline Safety Auditing: Federal (DOT) Compliance Guide
- Environmental State Differences: Regulatory Summaries (for all 50 states + Puerto Rico)
- Health and Safety State Differences: Regulatory Summaries (for all 50 states + Puerto Rico)
Training Guides:
- Regulatory Training Requirements: EPA, OSHA, and DOT Compliance Guide
- Regulatory Training Requirements: California Compliance Guide
- Regulatory Training Requirements: Healthcare Facilities Compliance Guide
Management Systems Guides:
- ISO 14001 EMS Implementation: Guidance Manual
- OHSAS 18000 Health and Safety Management Systems Implementation: Guidance Manual
Specialized Guides:
- Vehicle Maintenance Facilities: Federal Compliance Guide
- Vehicle Maintenance Facilities: California Compliance Guide
Literally thousands of private companies and government facilities across the country regularly rely on these unique regulatory information materials to help them manage their ongoing EHS responsibilities. They use these guides as the basis for promoting sound EHS decision-making, rapid development of protocols for multi-facility auditing, self-assessment, and ongoing regulatory compliance and EMS implementation.
Preparing regular quarterly updates to each of these guides allows STC’s regulatory specialists to retain their nationally-recognized roles as experts both on the content of these complex issues and on techniques to present this complicated information in the most readable, user-friendly form. Clients take advantage of our structured regulatory tracking process to hire STC to perform customized regulatory tracking, which can be provided on paper or in computerized formats.
Revisions to ISO 14001 have accentuated the need for companies to identify their compliance obligations in detail. STC helps clients complete the task of compiling registries of requirements by identifying the regulatory and company requirements applicable their sites and operations. To accomplish this task, we identify the scope of the registry, which in addition to environmental and health and safety regulation on the federal and state level, also include applicable agencies such as local ordinances, fire codes or air district requirements. Our consultants then review company-specific requirements, which may include best practices beyond those required by applicable regulations.
For more information about regulatory information and support tools, contact Melanie Powers-Schanbacher at (908) 707-4001 or mpowers@stcenv.com.
The following examples demonstrate the power and utility of STC’s EHS web-based information management activities:
General Electric:
For the past four years, STC has provided GE with detailed EHS regulatory compliance auditing information as the primary source for GE’s global internal EHS intranet management system.
Major Oil Company:
STC’s Guides were used as the basis for producing detailed legal requirements analyses for a major oil company’s federal, state, and local EH&S, DOT, Coast Guard, and related regulatory compliance requirements at more than 50 bulk oil terminals, pipelines, and support facilities in 23 different states. STC specialists helped identify what requirements applied to each facility and then integrated facility permit requirements into the applicable sections of the federal and state compliance guides. The result was facility-specific detailed summaries of all their compliance requirements, including regulatory deadlines, and relevant training, reporting, and recordkeeping needs that the client is using to organize and manage its regulatory compliance activities. The project is now being extended to one of the largest refineries in the United States.