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Challenges with Pharmaceutical Waste Management in the Healthcare Industry

Waste Management, EHS Strategy

Challenges with Pharmaceutical Waste Management in the Healthcare Industry

For more than a decade, the healthcare industry has grappled with confusing regulations around pharmaceutical waste management. These regulations can vary widely from state to state and have a big impact on organizational compliance. As regulations are constantly...
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Sustainability, Recycling, waste reduction

The Plastic Problem: Increasing Transparency in Waste Management

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. These words spur our thoughts and actions surrounding waste generation and disposal, and therefore the programs we create to manage our waste systems. But recently, as...
BY Calais Zumbach February 4, 2020
Properly sorted plastic waste for recycling

Regulatory Compliance

SPCC Secondary Containment: What’s Appropriate for Your Facility?

Are you confused about what you have to do to mitigate potential releases of oil at your facility? There are a ton of requirements when it comes to the EPA’s Spill Prevention, Control, and...
BY TEI Experts January 28, 2020
Oil released from a facility mixed with water due to improper secondary containment.

Compliance, Healthcare, Workplace Safety

Industrial Hygiene Concerns in Healthcare

Maintaining a robust industrial hygiene program is important in any industry, and healthcare is no exception. A number of substances that contribute to a hospital’s ability to provide quality...
BY Dave Culbert January 23, 2020
Nurses prepare patient for surgery

OSHA, Compliance, Confined Spaces

The Ins and Outs of Confined Space Entry

Do you have confined spaces at your facility? Are any of them permit-required confined spaces? Do you know your responsibilities under OSHA’s permit-required confined space standard?
BY Dave Culbert October 18, 2019
An OSHA compliant confined entry space with equipment outside for training purposes

Hazardous Materials, Lab Management

Making Sense of the Expiration or Retest Date on Your Lab's Chemical Bottles

One of the most common issues found during a typical high-haz walkthrough of any lab is the presence of chemicals kept and used past their expiration date. While it may not seem like a big deal to...
BY Roan Biron August 15, 2019
Expiration Chemical Bottles

Chemical Inventory

Running an Efficient Chemical Reconciliation to Maintain an Accurate Chemical Inventory

Chemical reconciliations are like hitting refresh on your chemical inventory system. After you perform a chemical reconciliation in your lab or at your facility, the chemical inventory is accurate,...
BY Paige McNamara May 10, 2019
Gloved scientist examines a chemical bottle during a chemical reconciliation

Chemical Inventory, Life Sciences

How to Reduce Costs with an Accurate Chemical Inventory

It’s easy to think of chemical inventory software as just a chunk out of your EHS budget. It is often a large piece of software that is tough to manage and only exists for running one or two reports...
BY Roan Biron April 3, 2019
Two neatly organized shelves of correctly inventoried chemicals

Safety

Answering 4 Important First Aid/CPR/AED Questions

Did you know that there are about 10,000 cardiac arrests in the workplace each year in the United States? Effective CPR provided by a bystander in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest can increase...
BY TEI Experts March 13, 2019
facility worker performing CPR

Hazardous Materials, Safety

Evaluating Employee Exposure to Spor-Klenz

For many years, a class of non-bleach liquid sporicidal disinfectants also known as cold sterilants, have been used throughout the biological research and pharmaceutical production industries to...
BY TEI Experts March 12, 2018
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