Ouch! The cost of unsafe working environments really does matter. In a recent news article from EHS Today, it clearly highlights that large corporations are not above the law, and that includes occupational health and safety regulatio...

Every day, tens of thousands of wells, hundreds of thousands of miles of pipelines and millions of items of processing equipment deliver energy safely to our homes, transport systems, businesses and communities. All that happens in an...

According to ILO statistics, there are over 2.3 million death per year and every 15 seconds, a worker dies from a work related accident or disease. Almost 300 million occurrences of non-fatal accidents / injuries occur every year as w...

Even though reports state that more than 65% of organizations have adopted Enterprise Risk Management, many executives remain unimpressed and skeptical of the value their ERM programs are providing versus what is needed. A report b...

To address the climate change issue targeting natural gas emission from oil and gas facilities nationwide, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently proposed standards to deal with it. Methane is the main substance found i...

Increasingly complicated compliance mandates have led some businesses to implement automated processes to save resources. Regulatory compliance processes can be a huge burden on company resources as mandates and IT threats evolve. To...

An EHS management system that is well conceived and implemented can provide many benefits to an organization, Crying wolf or raising false alarms, was the demise of the sheep herder in Aesop’s Fables. Over-reacting to every complia...

On April 15-17, 360factors attended the TBA Convention at the JWMarriott in Austin, TX.  As new members of the TBA, we enjoyed meeting with fellow members and Texas bankers.  During the event, we heard from many interesting speakers...

The La Quinta Channel Dredging Project celebrated it first year anniversary of completion this February. A dredging project of this magnitude involved extending the channel approximately 1.4 miles (with a depth of 39 feet) and constru...

Change is the law of life. And of business. In the course of everyday life, to respond or not to change pretty much depends on the person -- some do and some don't with little or no regard for whatever implications that may arise. ...