2009 ESS EXCELLENCE AWARDS

Categories

*** Note: Questions below are intended only to suggest potential perspectives on each topic. They are NOT required criteria.***

Environmental Management

• Air Emissions - How have you... e.g. improved emissions reporting accuracy, made the process easier, increased availability of emissions information in real time and/or measurably reduced greenhouse gas emissions?
• Water Emissions - How have you... e.g. simplified compliance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) or saved time/money completing the SARA 313 Form R and/or Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs)?
• Waste Management - How have you... e.g. increased the speed and accuracy of your EPA's biennial and SARA reporting requirements or markedly streamlined waste management information flow throughout your organization?
• Fugitive Emissions - How have you... e.g. simplified compliance with LDAR Regulations in Hazardous Organics NESHAPS (HON), Benzene NESHAPS, New Source Performance Standards, NESHAPS Subpart FF, RCRA Subpart BB, SARA Form R or other state-specific environmental requirements?
• Material Inventory Management - How have you... e.g. improved purchasing efficiency or reduced time/cost for maintaining compliance or streamlined reporting for EPCRA (incl. SARA Tier I & Tier II and Toxic Release Inventory)?
• Refrigerant Emissions - How have you... e.g. increased control of regulated inventory from purchase through disposal, simplified daily refrigerant monitoring tasks, or improved tracking of refrigerant technician certification and training?
• Right-to-Know - How have you... e.g. improved your Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) policies, standards or procedures or helped centralize your database to help users avoid countless hours of making complex calculations, while also assuring compliance with regulatory recordkeeping requirements?

Health & Safety Management

• Safety Management - How have you... e.g. reduced errors in your OSHA Required 300 Log and 301 Reports and avoid fines in your workplace by instituting comprehensive cost-tracking analysis capabilities?
• Industrial Hygiene - How have you... e.g. instituted extra protection processes to reduce hazardous materials exposures or implemented time-saving steps to manage PPE and recordkeeping?
• MSDS Management - How have you... e.g. you saved money and time going from a manual paper driven system to a digital management system - eliminating paper storage and allowing easy, fast access globally in your organization?
• Indoor Air Quality - How have you... e.g. reduced mold liability insurance costs or effectively reduced complaints; as well as reduced the risk of lawsuits from IAQ incidents?
• Job Hazard Analysis - How have you... e.g. enhanced your organization’s safety programs through analysis or used standard job hazard analysis procedures to lead to new control measures and prevent potential hazards?
• Liability Claims - How have you... e.g. prevented costly errors and lost information or implemented a system or procedure to ensure that cases are accurate and complete in every aspect - from claims to subrogation?

Crisis Management

• Planning and exercising - How have you... developed and implemented an emergency plan and how you are assuring and assessing organizational readiness?
• Response and recovery - How have you... e.g. performed when an actual accident, natural disaster or other emergency occurs, managing real-time response operations to save lives and minimize loss of assets?

Performance Management for EHS/C

• Audit Management - How have you... e.g. streamlined audit, citation and corrective action data processing, created a verifiable audit trail, identified workplace hazards or empowered your staff to be more productive?
• Compliance Management - How have you... e.g. identified which EHS regulations apply to your business and what steps are necessary in order to assure full compliance and drive operational excellence?
• Task Management - How have you... e.g. established task assignments and verified completion in order to save hours of staff work AND reduce the risk of either missed deadlines or actual non-compliance?
• Training Management - How have you... e.g. automated your training program to track and monitor expenses by course, student and instructor so you could reduce budgets and maintain accurate training records.

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