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DECEMBER 2021

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Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year!

As we reflect on our accomplishments this year, we are grateful beyond words for your support and partnership throughout 2021. Thank you for the opportunity to work with you! We look forward to continuing our collaboration in 2022. 

We wish you a fulfilling, abundant new year. 

Happy 2022!

Sincerely,

STP ComplianceEHS


Please note that our office will be closed from Friday, December 24th, 2021 till Monday, January 3rd​​​​, 2022.
 

Recent Blogs

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Environment, Health & Safety
OSHA compiles guides to Holiday Worker Safety

The US federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has added a portal to its webpage compiling “Holiday Worker Safety” guidance. These cover obvious retail and delivery workplaces that are likely to be especially busy during the holidays, as well as links to generalized resources and guidance intended to be useful to all workplaces. The remainder of this note identifies and summarizes OSHA’s pointers....

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Environment, Health and Safety
EPA proposes to revise PCB rules to facilitate cleanups

In 1976, an important motivation for enactment of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was to empower the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to control polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which had been developed as superlative insulation fluids but had come to be recognized as persistent toxic contaminants that bioaccumulate in the environment. TSCA banned the manufacturing, processing and distribution of new PCBs effective January 1, 1978, except in a “totally enclosed manner” or with an express exemption from EPA (including a finding that the exempt activity does not pose an “unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment”)...

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Environment, Health and Safety
Parts of Ontario employer vaccine policy found unreasonable in arbitration

While BLG’s recent article highlighted an employer’s successful defense of its COVID-19 vaccine policy in UFCW v. Paragon Protection, the outcome was different in Power Workers’ Union v. Electrical Safety Authority.

On November 11, 2021, Arbitrator John Stout found that the mandatory vaccination policy of the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) was unreasonable to the extent that employees may be disciplined, discharged, or placed on unpaid leave for failing to get fully vaccinated; however, Arbitrator Stout emphasized that context is everything...

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Recent updates

 

EHS Audit Protocol for Turkey

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EHS Audit Protocol for Jiangxi, China

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