Hygieneering, Inc.
News & Updates
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CONFINED SPACE ASSESSMENTS |
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Hygieneering’s expert team of workplace health and safety professionals can effectively evaluate/update your current Permit Confined Space program or develop/establish a new OSHA compliant program to safely support your operations. |
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Hygieneering’s team of trained and experienced professionals will:
- Develop/update your site’s Written Permit Confined Space Management Program
- Perform a documented assessment of all confined spaces in your workplace to determine if it is a non-permit required or a permit required confined space
- Create a documented inventory of non-permit required and permit required confined spaces
- Demarcate non-permit required and permit required confined spaces with uniform language throughout the workplace
- Identify and evaluate rescue and emergency services
- Provide training to affected employees (e.g. entry training, and entry rescue/non-entry rescue training)
- Provide 1st Aid, CPR, and AED training to the site’s rescue team
Since 1987, Hygieneering has been an expert in supporting workplace health and safety. To learn more about this service, contact us today!
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Contact Kevin Konkey today to make sure your
business is safe and compliant!
630.706.6681 | KKonkey@hygieneering.com
Learn more about this service and others by visiting our brochure page.
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Permit Required Confined Space Entry and Rescue Training |
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Hygieneering recently performed Permit Required Confined Space Entry and Rescue training for maintenance technicians at a manufacturer of phenolic resins and thermoset molding materials. Our Experienced OSHA Instructors will come to your site to train your affected employees. The goal of our training is to ensure your affected employees acquire the understanding, knowledge, and skills that are necessary to safely perform assigned duties as members of the Permit Required Confined Space Entry and Rescue team.
Our training covers permit vs. non-permit required confined spaces, what hazards are encountered in a confined space, the hazardous conditions that would prevent entry, atmospheric air testing techniques, how to respond to an emergency, what personal protective equipment (PPE) may need to be worn, what equipment will be needed, permit requirements, responsibilities/roles of team members and how to recognize symptoms of overexposure of air contaminants. Our training also includes procedures and techniques for entry rescue and the importance of having a rescue plan in place. Proper training can prevent employee injuries and deaths by covering OSHA’s confined space requirements along with ANSI and NFPA guidelines.
For more information about our confined space services, click here.
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Association Participation
Promoting EHS Everywhere We Go
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Midwest Food Products Association
10th Annual Sporting Clays Challenge
This afternoon of shooting and fun raised money for member employee-student scholarships. It was a tremendous turnout and we can't wait to do it again next year!
Join us at MWFPA's Annual Convention later this month! We'll be at booth 717 sharing the latest info in Environmental Health and Safety. We look forward to seeing you there!
To learn more about this Association, visit MWFPA's website here.
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Interested in catching up with our Hygieneering team at an upcoming local event?
Visit our new events page on our website to learn where we'll be next!
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Lung Cancer Awareness Month |
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Mitigating Lung Cancer Risks Within the Workplace
This annual event is intended to educate the public on lung cancer risk factors, treatment, and prevention. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more people die from lung cancer than any other cancer. While personal factors—such as smoking—can increase lung cancer risks, certain work-related exposures can also make employees more vulnerable to lung conditions (including cancer). Chronic, long-term exposure to respiratory irritants associated with workplace operations and maintenance tasks such grinding, welding, cutting, torching, drilling, spraying, painting, mixing, and blending can generate airborne respiratory hazards. Uncontrolled exposure to dusts, gases, vapors, metal fumes, dirt, asbestos, silica, formaldehyde and other hazardous chemicals can cause workers to develop lung diseases.
If your employees are exposed to irritants on the job, take these steps to protect their lungs:
- Have a Certified Industrial Hygienist or other qualified health and safety expert routinely assess your workplace for exposures that may contribute to occupational lung and health conditions
- Provide employees with all necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) when working near respiratory irritants and train them on the proper use of this PPE.
- Educate workers on the risks and severity of occupational lung conditions and proper work practices to minimize exposure
For more information on occupational lung conditions, click here.
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Part-Time Environmental, Health, & Safety Trainers
Hygieneering, Inc. has the immediate need for part-time Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Trainers to assist in providing professional expert training to our diverse client database.
The EHS Trainer will be responsible for developing and conducting environmental, health, and safety training for clients and maintaining course materials. Candidates must be self-motivated, coachable, growth-oriented individuals who possess the skills necessary to develop and implement training for not only meeting, but exceeding, environmental, health, and safety performance. The EHS Trainer will interact with a variety of personnel including executives, engineers, line-workers, and other business professionals. This individual will be required to possess excellent written and oral communication skills (including public speaking) to effectively deliver training. Trainers are needed to present training for Confined Space Entry, Confined Space Entry Rescue and Non-Entry Rescue, NFPA 70 E Arc Flash, Hazmat Ground Shipper (DOT), Hazmat Air Shipper (IATA), RCRA Hazardous Waste Training, OSHA HAZWOPER (24 & 40 hour Initial, Incident Commander, Refreshers), 1st Aid, CPR & AED, etc. Interested and qualified candidates should submit their resumes to kkonkey@hygieneering.com.
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This is a friendly reminder that:
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US DOT requires complete training for hazmat employees once every three years (49 CFR 172.704).
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US EPA requires annual training for hazardous waste personnel (40 CFR 262.17).
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US OSHA requires annual training for general site workers engaged in hazardous waste operations (29 CFR 1910.(e)(9) as well as emergency response employees (29 CFR 1910.120(q)(8).
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OSHA states that each powered industrial vehicle operator must initially be trained and evaluated and operator’s performance must be evaluated at least once every 3 years. Hygieneering provides initial and refresher training for operators of powered industrial vehicles.
To schedule your Company’s required training for these or other OSHA EPA competencies, by Hygieneering's certified staff, contact Kevin Konkey.
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Hygieneering Celebrations |
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Happy birthday to the following team members who celebrate in November!
David Zeidner 11/19
Frank Pelletier 11/30
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Congratulations to the following people who are celebrating milestones this month at Hygieneering! Thank you for your hard work and dedication throughout the years!
Connor Power- 4 years
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Our offices will be closed on Thursday, November 24th in celebration of the holiday. |
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