+ Routine Compliance Assistance

Provide assistance to address regulatory requirements, provide technical advice to ensure your site maintains compliance and provide supplemental staffing. Some of our services include:

• Conducting baseline and ongoing compliance evaluations to identify compliance gaps and develop and implement solutions to address any gaps identified.
• Providing ongoing support to supplement existing staffing levels to accomplish corporate, site or regulatory goals that may include company or regulatory audit findings, annual LOTO evaluations, annual confined space reviews, industrial hygiene sampling, regulatory training, etc.
• Supporting your OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements through case management, incident investigations, procedure development, notifications, and reporting requirements.

+ Compliance Evaluations

Be prepared to pass that corporate audit or regulatory inspection with pre assessments, evaluations and ongoing verification checks to ensure your location maintains compliance with company and regulatory requirements.

• Evaluate existing management systems at a corporate level or site level to assess performance related to company, regulatory requirements, or industry recognized management system standards.
• Provide support for existing corporate internal audit teams to assist with an internal review process to ensure locations are meeting company and regulatory requirements.

+ Contractor Management

One of the critical elements of a full HSE management system is the implementation of a contractor management program. A contractor management program ensures your contractor work force can perform their jobs safely and their activities and services do not add to or increase facility operational risks. Some of the key service elements include:

• Develop and implement a contractor management program
• Conduct assessments of existing contractor management program to determine gaps and areas of improvement
• Manage requirements associated with various online contractor safety management systems that are designed to streamline contractor’s compliance pre-qualification processes.

+ Cultural Improvements

Knowing your existing culture and having the right tools to develop a good HSE culture is critical. Axiom HSE will provide these tools and insight on the critical best practices to implement to make improvements to your HSE culture. Some of these elements include the following.

• Evaluate existing HSE culture to determine areas of improvement and develop goals that drive positive and continuous change.
• Develop and implement site specific industry recognized best practices to help drive cultural change.
• Provide solutions that empower employees at all levels of the organization to drive sustainable change to your HSE culture.
• Develop and implement leading and lagging metrics to track your progress towards your compliance goals.
• Utilize critical networking strategies to support and drive key cultural changes

+ Management System Development

Our focus is to deliver to our clients a tailored and comprehensive HSE management system that is developed through collaboration and alignment with the business. This ensures sustainability of your HSE management system with continued compliance with corporate requirements, local and national requirements along with meeting industry recognized management system standards. We take a collaborative approach to:

• Provide resources to review, define, design, and implement HSE management systems that meet or exceed company and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvements and integration of HSE within the business model.
• Provide assistance with the integration of existing policies, procedures or practices based on site specific requirements or management system certification requirements.

+ Policy Development

Our focus is to deliver to our clients a tailored and comprehensive HSE management system that is developed through collaboration and alignment with the business. This ensures sustainability of your HSE management system with continued compliance with corporate requirements, local and national requirements along with meeting industry recognized management system standards. We take a collaborative approach to:

• Provide resources to review, define, design, and implement HSE management systems that meet or exceed company and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvements and integration of HSE within the business model.
• Provide assistance with the integration of existing policies, procedures or practices based on site specific requirements or management system certification requirements.

+ Management System Certification

Pursuit of certification requires a systematic approach to address all the requirements and ensure the requirements are sustainable.

• Provide a turnkey solution for the full implementation that enables a client to implement the right management systems to achieve certification within an industry recognized management system, e.g., OSHA Voluntary Protection Program, ISO 14001, Responsible Care.
• Conduct a review of your HSE management system to ensure it meets the requirements, is effective and sustainable.
• Provide ongoing support to assist with meeting the various management system requirements that may include internal audit program, management system reviews, ongoing inspections, etc.

+ Industrial Hygiene

Health risks associated with potentially hazardous chemicals, physical, and biological agents must be systematically anticipated, recognized, evaluated, and controlled to meet applicable regulatory and company requirements. To accomplish this the following task are offered:

• Conduct baseline hazard identification to determine potential exposures during routine and non-routine work activities.
• Develop annual industrial hygiene sampling plans.
• Perform industrial hygiene monitoring to determine potential and actual exposures.
• Recommend the implementation of control measures to reduce or prevent the potential exposures.
• Provide communication and training related to industrial hygiene results, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, etc.,
• Conduct annual program evaluations to meet company and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement a site-specific industrial hygiene program.

+ Hazard Recognition

One of the key focus areas to reduce injuries within the workplace is the ability to recognize hazards. Do your employees know how to recognize the hazards they work with and how to control the hazards?

• Provide a process that focuses on hazard recognition to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses through the development and implementation of a system too systematically evaluate hazards. This includes the development of various tools, conducting training and sharing of best practices.

+ Training

An essential part of a sustainable HSE system is a commitment to educate employees in HSE procedures and compliance requirements, and to provide appropriate training to enhance the skills of those responsible for implementing the various control measures. Key services to support training include:

• The identification of the HSE training needs associated with each location
• Development of training materials that address the specific requirements
• Provide appropriate training based on the identified needs.

+ Environmental Services

Environmental focus areas include evaluations and support related to the management and procedural elements associated with

• Special Waste
• Spill Prevention Control & Counter Measure Plans
• Wastewater
• Stormwater
• Air Permitting
• Reporting

+ Environmental Compliance

Various regulations apply to protect the environment and require significant resources to develop and implement systems to ensure its sustainability. The following resources are available to assist with your efforts to ensure you maintain compliance and protect the environment.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of waste management activities to ensure that they are characterized, stored, handled, labeled, transferred, transported, and disposed of properly.
• Provide assistance to address the annual and periodic environmental reporting requirements related to hazardous waste, special waste, tier I, tier II, tier III, etc.
• Auditing and evaluations to confirm compliance with existing internal and external regulations.

+ Other Key HSE Areas

• Machine Guarding
• Incident Investigations
• Hazard Communication
• Confined Space
• Lockout Tagout
• Working from Heights
• Life-Saving Rules
• Refrigerant Management Services
• Employee Health Services
• Emergency Response
• Respiratory Protection, etc