Welcome New Clients
This list reflects each company’s ongoing desire to make sure their workplace continues to be as safe as possible for their employees:
ADA-ES
Advanced Forming Technology
Advantage Logistics
Bouma Corporation
Buehler Moving
DaVita Corporation
Foothills Gateway
Goltra Castings
Jefferson County Public School District
Pentax Imaging Company
Pilatus Business Aircraft, Ltd.
Radiology Imaging Associates, PC
Rocky Mountain Steel Mills
Hellman & Associates can be reached at rhellman@ehscompliance.com or
303-384-9828,
Hellman & Associates
2221 East Street #202
Golden CO 80401
303.384.9828 ph.
303.384.9827 fx.
www.ehscompliance.com
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President’s Corner
by Ryan S. Hellman
 Recent tragic disasters, both human- and weather-related, bolster the fact that businesses have an obligation to the safety of their employees. In fact, OSHA requires attention to specific elements under the General Industry (29 CFR 1910) Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness. Organizations depend on management’s awareness of potential disasters and their ability to plan and prepare for those events.
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Mastering the Basics for Crisis Management
by Cole A. Wist, Patton Boggs LLP
What do you need to know and what must you do when a disaster or crisis strikes at your facility? If you’re thinking about disaster planning or crisis management for the first time AFTER a disaster happens, you are already too late. The purpose of this article is to invite you to have this discussion well in advance. Having a thoughtful and well communicated crisis management plan will help to insulate you from unnecessary mistakes and liability when the heat is on. Here are some items for you to consider.
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Chemical Reporting Requirements
by Kim Fisher, EHS Consultant, Hellman & Associates
Do you store or use hazardous chemicals? Are you aware that you are required to submit reports to local fire departments, the Local Emergency Planning Committee, and the State Planning Commission by March 1st of each year?
If this information makes you panic, know that Hellman & Associates can assist you in this often overwhelming task. We can even do it for you as we have for several of our clients.
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Asbestos Awareness Alert
by John Cunningham, EHS Consultant and Certifed Asbestos Inspector
If you are remodeling, renovating or demolishing, you are subject to State and Federal Regulations requiring inspection for asbestos. Buildings of any age may contain asbestos; even those newly built may have asbestos-containing materials.
Inspection
The structures/components to be disturbed must be inspected for asbestos by a state-certified asbestos inspector. Hellman & Associates staff is qualified to conduct asbestos inspections.
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Risk Management Symposium Upcoming
3rd Annual
Risk Management & Safety Symposium
The 3 rd Annual Symposium will highlight topics
specific to Risk Management, Workers’ Compensation, Safety, Industrial Health
& Hygiene, and HR issues. Speakers
and topics will focus on issues that affect all our companies on a daily basis
with plenty of time for networking and Q&A for all our attendees.
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Important Exercise in Need of Volunteers
Volunteers Needed for Mass Decontamination Exercise
This is a mass decontamination exercise to assist the Metropolitan
Medical Response System Agencies with mass decontamination policies and
procedures. Volunteers will pose as
victims and must wear swim suits under their clothing. All “victims” are volunteers.
They need 200 volunteers and aren’t quite there yet so
please consider this or share with those you think may be interested.
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Spotlight on Courtney Pope
Those of you who have worked with Hellman & Associates in past years will surely recognize our exuberant Courtney Pope, EHS Consultant for the past six years. She was the first employee that our
President, Ryan Hellman, hired. She earned a B.S. Environmental Health Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Courtney Pope’s clients and colleagues have first-hand experience with her sense of humor and intelligent and skillful application of her safety and health experience. She easily wins the trust (and rave reviews) of participants in any of her classes, whether they are construction workers on site or DOT Trainees in a classroom setting.
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