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Empowering Business and Community Planning

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Hazardous materials are ubiquitous in our world and as such, recognizing and preparing for the hazards they pose is essential to protecting our communities and ensuring businesses continue to operate effectively with minimal disruption.

CT Auditing specializes in hazardous materials audits to improve safety and business preparedness.  Auditors work with you to find effective solutions that can help improve business continuity by reducing the risk to your operations and the surrounding community.

 

 

Conducting audits can provide meaningful insights on business continuity, emergency preparedness, response readiness, and hazards that impact operations.  Even better there is a link between onsite inspections and increased site safety and a decrease in costs.

Vision

Hazardous materials play an important role in our society and are ubiquitous in the use as an ingredient to make a product, part of a process, or as backup power.  The end result is we cannot function without hazardous materials.  With our current knowledge and technology we are unable to eliminate all hazards associated with using hazardous materials.  Does that mean we sit back and hope something won't happen? The obvious answer is NO.  In reality the answer is much more complex.

 

We need to use every tool available now and in the future to reduce the risk associated with handling hazardous materials.  This becomes increasingly important when you factor in natural disasters and climate change (high winds, fires, flooding), human factors (errors, omissions, fatigue), and outside influences (surrounding businesses, transportation routes, etc.). Proactively Identifying hazards is the first step in reducing risk to your business and the community.  Next is to address the hazards by planning, preparing and auditing our hazardous material use to constantly improve.

 

Research has shown that inspections can identify unknown hazards, make a facility approximately 19-24 percent safer for at least two years following an inspection,

and encourages employees to speak up to an independent third party.

(See Resources Section Below)

Our goal is make businesses and communities aware of, better prepared for, and safer relating to the use of hazardous materials that are ubiquitous in our daily lives.  

CT Auditing LLC partners with you to proactively identify hazards and associated harms in order to plan and prepare for an emergency to reduce the risk to your employees,  the surrounding community and keep your business operating.

Children going to school

Can you answer these questions ?

What is stored in these containers?

​What happens if you see a leak?

Has this been reported?

Would our employees know what to do?

How will first responders gain access?


 

Hazardous Materials Drum Storage


How prepared are you?

Could you answer these questions about your operations?


 

Aboveground Tanls

Do you know what is in the second tank?
Is there a Hazard?
What else should we know?
How does our ER Plan cover this?
Are there impacts to the community?
Does our training Program cover this?

Are these Compatible?
How many containers would you need to move to get access?
How many would you need to move in an emergency?
Is your spill kit large enough to manage a leaking IBC?

How long will my operations be shutdown in an emergency?

 

Hazardous Materials IBC Storage

Is the community aware of the chemicals you handle?
What does the community expect from you?
Are the first responders aware of the hazards?
What can you do to improve the response?
What is the potential impact to the community?

What will my community think after there is a release?

 

Are you Ready for…
an inspection?
a release?
to evacuate?
to engage the community?
to ask questions?

It starts with a phone call. Let’s talk today.

 

Why do you need compliance assistance and third party audits?

 

Failure to address a hazard could lead to significant penalties, staff injuries, decreased productivity,

negative community relations, and increased operational downtime.

Penalties easily START at thousands of dollars for minor compliance deviations and can REACH hundreds

of thousands of dollars for more significant deviations.

Injury to a coworker effects not only the injured employee but employee morale as well leading to short

and long term productivity loss.

Impacts to the community can and do result in direct harm to life, environment, and/or property.

Even a small incident can result in negative community perceptions.

Services

Hazardous Materials Safety
Audits and Inspections
Identifying Internal & External Hazards
EPCRA  / Tier II Submittals / Release Reporting
Planning / Preparedness
Compliance Assistance
– Haz Waste – UST - AST – EPCRA Tier II – and More.

Resources

EPA Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

Ready.Gov

OSHA

National Association of SARA Title III Program Officials 

Illinois EMA

​US Department of Labor Stats Supporting Inspections

According to a 2012 article, businesses that receive an inspection have a 9.4% reduction in injury rates and a 26% percent reduction in injury costs with no significant increase in costs.

​Levine, David & Toffel, Michael & Johnson, Matthew. (2012).
Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries With No Detectable Job Loss. Science (New York, N.Y.). 336. 907-11.
10.1126/science.1215191. 

About

Dedication to the identification of hazards and prevention of harm through risk mitigation and emergency preparedness
Hazard Identification
Risk Mitigation
Employee Training on Emergency Response 
Community Engagement

Decades of compliance experience
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act EPCRA
California Hazardous Materials Business Plan HMBP
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA
California Hazardous Waste Title 22
Spill Prevention Countermeasures and Control Plan SPCC
California Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act. APSA
Underground Storage Tanks UST
General and Hazardous Material Safety
Community engagement / preparedness
Training sessions

Facility inspections
Inspections conducted at a wide array of facilities. Each site having a comprehensive evaluation and practical solutions tailored to their particular needs.
Conducted inspections for businesses, local, state, and federal entities

Connections 
Our goal to provide compliance assistance does not stop at your property boundaries
We pride ourselves in ensuring local responders have the best information possible when responded to your facility in the event of an emergency
We identify hazards posed by surrounding businesses that could impact you and you operations

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