Hygieneering, Inc.
News & Updates
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Interim Onsite EH&S Professional Assistance
In order to help meet our clients needs when professional Environmental Safety and Health staffing needs arise, Hygieneering provides a solution for our clients. To date Hygieneering has placed over 100 temporary staff professionals covering over 10,000-plus hours of “incident-free” on-site full and part time EH&S assistance at our clients local and remote facilities. We have the ability to quickly review and understand the needs of our clients and provide multiple prospective EH&S employees from entry level on up. We currently have five (5) employees at our clients' facilities located within and outside the United States in the private/public, corporate, and manufacturing sectors and U.S. Government facilities.
Please call Kevin Konkey at 630.706.6683 or Brad Karich at 630.706.6682 with any questions or staffing needs you might have.
Learn more about this service and others by visiting our brochure page.
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Onsite Interim Environmental Health & Safety Professional Assistance
As our clients have introduced new processes, changed safety protocols, or had employees change roles, Hygieneering has provided temporary onsite Environmental Health and Safety professionals for supplementary support to ensure continued compliance and environmental health and safety regulations are followed. Hygieneering has been assisting in sectors such as petrochemical, research and development, industrial/railway, chemical manufacturing, and food processing facilities. Some of the daily tasks that Hygieneering has been asked to perform are as follows:
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- Walk through the facilities on a daily basis to ensure the client’s internal safety procedures and requirements are followed.
- Perform regulatory audits on processes within facilities and projects.
- Perform Industrial Hygiene monitoring for various site-specific tasks.
- Complete regulatory documents for client record and submittal.
- Contractor safety program oversight.
- Safety committee meetings.
- Employee safety training.
- Client environmental program compliance.
- Construction project safety planning and review.
- Safety program development, implementation, and training.
- Support clients during regulatory visits, and during follow up actions.
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Hygieneering’s diverse professional staff is supporting a variety of industries, covering both short term and long term positions to ensure environmental health and safety compliance for our clients. |
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Process Preliminary Design Review and Safety Risk Assessments
As our clients have begun to consider new processes for implementation or improve current processes, Hygieneering has been retained to aid in the design review to ensure that risk and hazard mitigation is considered during the planning phase, that the project is compliant with life safety rules for the facility, and compliant with local, state, and federal regulators. These design reviews have been completed onsite, as well as remotely for clients. Some of the tasks that Hygieneering has performed for these Preliminary Design Review and Safety Risk Assessments are as follows:
- Walk through facilities to review potential facility siting constraints prior to installation.
- Perform Process Hazard Analysis reviews with the client, their design team, and subject matter experts.
- Provide recommendations based on the designs reviewed, as well as the final goal of the process.
- Participate as a team member to guide the discussion between key stakeholders in a productive manner.
As each project complexity varies, Hygieneering assists in identifying action items to ensure compliance, recognize hazards and risks prior to project implementation, and make recommendations for opportunities for improvement.
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The Healthy Building Institute |
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The Healthy Building Institute is proud to announce that the Grainger Corporate Facility in Lake Forest has enrolled in the Healthy Building Verification Program.
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Grainger is committed to maintaining their buildings in accordance with healthy building guidance established by OSHA, EPA, ASHRAE, AIHA and the CDC. As part of this commitment, they have engaged the Healthy Building Institute’s (HBI) – Healthy Building Verification Program.
The Healthy Building Verification (HBV) Program has provided a high-level 3rd party review of these buildings' operations as related to indoor air quality, drinking water quality and surface cleanliness. These facilities' participation within the HBI-HBV program documents their commitment and compliance with healthy building guidance and professionally assists in assuring its building occupant’s that their building is providing Healthy Air to Breath, Water to Drink and Surfaces to Touch in this current COVID -19 world and beyond.
To learn more about The Healthy Building Institute's Healthy Building Verification program, or to request a proposal, visit www.hbi-usa.com. |
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Association Participation |
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Midwest Food Products Association 2021 Conference |
The Midwest Food Products Association (MWFPA) held its 116th Annual Convention and 93rd Processing Crops Conference, at the Kalahari Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. This conference brings together a comprehensive network of packaging and processing suppliers, ideas, and industry professionals. It also showcases the latest trends in the food products industry from growing and harvesting crops, to effectively recruiting, and training your labor force, and everything in between,. Learn more about MWFPA here.
Kevin Konkey and Brad Karich represented Hygieneering and had the pleasure to meet and hear Blake Leeper's "Anything is Possible" speech at the conference. Blake is an Olympic / Paralympic Games Medalist World & American Record Holder.
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2021 Wisconsin Asbestos Conference |
The Wisconsin Asbestos Seminar began over twenty years ago as a joint effort between state regulators and private industry to share and disseminate relevant information with those involved in managing or handling Asbestos. Hygieneering was proud to attend and support this conference this year!
To learn more about the Wisconsin Asbestos Conference, visit their website.
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OSHA's Top 10 Most Cited Violations for FY 2021 |
OSHA's Annual Top 10 Most Cited Violations list has been released for 2021. Fall Protection-General Requirements (1926.501) once again tops the list. Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, reminds safety professionals that the figures reinforce the importance of staying vigilant about worker safety and health. This especially rings true now, amid the evolving – and, perhaps, waning – COVID-19 pandemic. View the full list here.
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Hygieneering Celebrations |
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Happy birthday to the following team members who celebrate in December!
Mike Bartos - 12/2
Sarah Dickerson - 12/11
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This is a friendly reminder that:
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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) Tier II Reports – Due March 1st.
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OSHA Form 300A - February 1st - The OSHA Form 300A must be posted in a location that is clearly visible to all employees, and it must remain posted until April 30, 2021.
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December 25
Christmas Day (Observed December 24)
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December 26
First Day of Kwanzaa
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