Author: clymenvironmen
How To Prepare For An Environmental Health & Safety Audit
An Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Audit is an in depth look at your workplace’s compliance with industry regulations relevant to worker protection and waste management. These assessments are performed by an independent third party, although there are guidelines put in place by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EHS audits consider: How well employees are […]
The Three Phases of Successfully Completing a Lab Decommissioning
When closing, renovating, or relocating a laboratory, observing the best practices contained in the following three phases, will ensure that you proceed efficiently, safely, and above all, in compliance with the ANSI/ASSE Z9.11-2016 Laboratory Decommissioning standard. To help you delve into the details, we have provided a series of tips and recommendations: PHASE I: ASSESS […]
Be Smart About Medical Waste Disposal: Lowering Costs Safely
It’s hard to imagine, but a recent study showed that US hospitals generate nearly 6 million tons of medical waste annually. Simply handling that volume of trash would be an enormous and costly challenge; disposing of trash that is hazardous or potentially hazardous in a safe and compliant way adds an entirely new dimension to […]
How To Manage COVID Vaccine Medical Waste Disposal
In an effort to inoculate all Americans who so desire, centers administering the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine are appearing across the United States—leading to questions from healthcare providers regarding the proper medical waste disposal of vaccine remnants. Although protocols may vary slightly from state to state, disposal of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine-related wastes generally follow similar procedures […]
Are You Complying with OSHA’s Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens Standard?
Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1970 to set and enforce standards to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for the American workforce. Over the past 50 years, OSHA has passed “standards” to protect workers involved in various industries, focusing on workplaces where hazardous materials are present. For example, in 1991, […]
Helping You Create a Workplace Culture Based on EHS Best Practices
Creating a workplace culture that focuses on Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) is well worth the effort, but the amount of time and attention to detail it takes can be prohibitive. Clym Environmental Services partners with a broad spectrum of companies to provide all or part of the support needed to create and maintain a […]
How To Choose The Best Medical Waste Management Company
You will need to make many important decisions as your business grows, including when to build a solution for an emerging need into your infrastructure and when to outsource those functions to a partner. How you choose those partners is very important, because you will be entrusting key parts of your core business to someone […]
Clym Secures Comprehensive Safety Services Contract for Renowned Client
Clym Environmental Services, LLC (Clym) was recently awarded a federal contract valued at over $14 million dollars to provide comprehensive safety support and decommissioning services for the National Institutes of Health after a competitive bidding process. Considered the world’s foremost research center, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has paved the way for discoveries that […]
What You Need to Know About PPE
Before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic in March of 2020, very few outside the medical profession knew what “PPE” stood for. Over the past five months, however, this acronym for Personal Protective Equipment, formerly used only within the life sciences and healthcare industries, has come into everyday use in […]
Compliant Medical Waste Management is a Win-Win
The typical healthcare facility produces vast quantities of medical waste every day, and each disposal situation demands a different solution. Guidelines for the safe and proper disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous solid wastes are dictated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Becoming familiar with these regulations and […]