Chemical Audits

Our comprehensive chemical audits identify potential risks in the storage, handling, and disposal of hazardous substances. MLI Environmental ensures compliance with OSHA, EPA, and state regulations, while helping businesses streamline chemical inventory management and reduce environmental liabilities. Reach out to our team to schedule a chemical audit for your facility.

How to Craft an Effective Chemical Hygiene Plan for Laboratory Safety

Chemical Hygiene Plans (CHPs) are written safety programs required in laboratories that use hazardous chemicals, with the aim of protecting employees from chemical exposure. Mandated by OSHA under standard 29 CFR 1910.

Negative Effects of Pouring Chemicals Down the Drain

We’ve all been there – using the drains in your home or business to instantly dispose of whatever substance you’re working with is extremely convenient. But when it comes to substances that are even remotely hazardous, you can unknowingly cause a great deal of harm by doing so.

Chemical Relocation and Laboratory Moves

Chemical Relocation or Upgrading the Facility? Has your business or school location become outdated, too small, or expanding creating the need for a change in venue? Do you have chemicals to be packaged and transported to a new location or off site for storage during renovations? There is often hazardous waste found during a chemical relocation or renovation.

Does Your Facility Have a Chemical Hygiene Plan?

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets standards for facilities to abide by to ensure a safe and healthy working environment. One standard within 29 CFR 1910.1450 is referred to as the Laboratory Standard, which was put in place to protect laboratory workers from being harmed by hazardous chemicals.

How to Get Compliant – Chemicals in Schools

Let’s get compliant! If you read our last blog, we talked about the most common places to find hazardous chemicals in a school. Here we are going to give you tips on how to make your school compliant and solutions to potential violations. Science labs This was the most common place to find hazardous chemicals due to the nature of the chemicals used in Chemistry laboratory experiments.

Hazardous Chemicals In Your Schools

There are many areas within schools where you will be shocked to find hazardous chemicals. It could be an outside storage shed, closet, classroom, or maintenance area; it is likely there is an abundance of chemicals in your schools.

Chemicals – Safety in Your School

Growing up, you may have had fun going into chemistry class to learn about different chemicals. Discovering how chemicals interact with one another and what goes into their compounds. However, the thought of what happens to the chemicals that aren’t used or where the used ones get discarded probably never crossed your mind.

Chemical Hygiene Plans – How You Keep Your Job and Save Money

We find that generators of chemical wastes that get “visited” frequently are usually up to speed with regulations and storage containment periods. For the larger generators such as “Blue Chip” companies, it is not unusual for a “visit” or inspection to unveil violations due to huge quantities of wastes and multiple locations.