Environmental Health & Safety

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At the outset of the project, we assisted with the various aspects of managing a large-scale renovation and demolition project.  Demonstrating Verdantas' versatility, our services for this education sector client ranged from planning and completing a hazardous building material survey, to preparing comprehensive characterization reports and work plans to guide abatement activities over a 5-year period.

Achievements

DATA GAP ANALYSIS – The first step in the project was to compile the existing asbestos survey and abatement data to prepare a database of testing results to evaluate what media needed testing to plan abatement activities.   This step reduced the number of samples for testing.

HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION REPORTS – The project included coordinating a hazardous building material survey and identification of laboratory decontamination requirements based upon historical use.  We prepared two Work Plans for different portions of the Science Center to identify impacted building materials, project sequencing, and contractor responsibilities for bidding purposes.  We partnered with Environmental Health, Inc. to provide Project Monitoring (PM) services during abatement.

SOIL STABILZATION AT FORMER GREENHOUSE – During demolition of the former Greenhouse complex lead-impacted soil required stabilization to render the soil non-hazardous before excavation and disposal.  We prepared the Soil Management Plan, oversaw stabilization activities, and collected confirmatory soil samples.

ASBESTOS OPERATION, MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE (OMM) PLANS – At completion of the renovation project, we prepared OMMs Plans for two portions of the building where asbestos containing materials (ASCM) not abated.  The plans identify the location of ACM and provide management guidelines to minimize the potential for exposure.

Scope of Services

• Abatement Project Monitoring
• Hazardous Building Material Assessment
• Building Hazardous Material Abatement Work Plan
• Greenhouse Area Soil Stabilization and Disposal
• Underground Injection Control Requirements
• Regulatory Program Assistance

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Verdantas was selected to prepare Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans for Service Energy facilities in Dover, Milford, and Lewes, Delaware. The goal of the effort was to develop SPCC plans that would not only be compliant with 40 CFR 112, but also be easy to use and practical to implement.

Having prepared hundreds of SPCC plans in EPA Region 3, Verdantas had a history collaborating with EPA on similar projects. With confidence that our product would pass regulatory scrutiny, Verdantas proceeded to conduct site visits to obtain the information needed to develop plans for each of the sites. Site visits took approximately 1.5 hours to complete (typically between 1 and 3 hours are needed, depending on the complexity of the site). Following the site visits, information collected was carefully transformed into accurate, workable documents. Our client was given an opportunity to review draft documents before final plans, signed and sealed by a registered Professional Engineer (PE), were available for use.

The Verdantas team brings decades of superior experience with navigating compliance requirements related to oil pollution prevention. From federal Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) requirements to federal Facility Response Plan (FRP) requirements to individual state programs, our team has established career- long relationships with the regulators who implement these programs. This familiarity yields compliance success for our clients.

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Verdantas offers on-going support to a semiconductor manufacturing facility located in southern New Hampshire.  This facility manufactures gallium arsenide wafers using a Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) process.  Due to the laboratory-style operations and hazardous gases and liquids involved, the facility requires on-going safety program management and staff involvement.

Employee Safety Committee

Verdantas leads the facility’s monthly safety committee meetings.  Once per month, a selection of employees from upper managers to lab workers meet to discuss on-going safety needs and events.  These meetings incorporate the review of near-miss reports, anticipated future events, and scheduling regular tasks such as facility safety walk-throughs and training.  Quarterly, the team develops a report of safety events reviewed by the committee, which is distributed to all employees in the facility.  Verdantas uses their combined experience to guide and direct the safety committee while allowing the attending members to exercise their agency in directing facility safety programs.

Employee Training

Verdantas provides both live training services to facility employees, as well as assisting facility staff in developing and presenting their own training classes.  It is Verdantas’ approach to empower clients to manage and develop programs as much as possible to bolster facility staff engagement and develop positive long-term corporate environmental health and safety (EHS) habits.

Company Program Development

Verdantas offers ongoing support to assist the facility in developing internal safety programs, such as chemical spill response, lockout-tagout, facility safety inspections, and new chemical review forms / change management procedures.  As with training, the goal is help prop up the facility’s programs currently in a manner allowing the facility to continue managing them in the future themselves as much as possible.

 

 

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