April 22, 2015
New Risks and Questions Emerge as Regulatory Landscape Evolves
April 22, 2015
If compliance is easier when risks and expectations are clearly defined, then the emerging compliance landscape may be anything but easy... Read more...
Q: What traits do you look for in those with leadership potential?
Thomas Day
Chief Sustainability Officer
United States Postal Service
"At the very heart of a good leader is integrity. Integrity defines how we act, how we treat others and how we will represent our organization..." Read more...
Dale Rice
Applications Engineer
VSP Technologies
"I have spent the last several months developing a scientifically based model that helps predict the fugitive emissions performance of our own (and other) gaskets that are commonly used in industry. I am hoping that those companies we supply to will use this information to reduce their air emissions." Read more...
Giving EHS Risk Equal Footing
By Rodney Canada
"Do you ever have difficulty "pitching" an EHS improvement project? Even in a strong safety culture company, how do you get the EHS projects to "compete" with the high revenue return capital projects that look so much more attractive to the senior executives?" Read more!
Read more from this month's Green Tie blog:
- What Gets Measured Gets Managed. Or Does it? By David Newman
- Engaging Your Enterprise and Taking Action on Climate Change by Allan Klindworth
- Facilitating Dialogue Drives Engagement, Trust, Business Results by Sandy Nessing
- Doing the Right Thing by Alex Pollock
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The following members joined NAEM in the last month:
- Santee Cooper is a new organizational member
- Joy Ausman, Clearwater Paper Corp.
Kym Fawcett featured on CSRwire's Talkback Blog
"An early eureka moment was in the early '90s when I was working on a large scale, multi-year aquatic ecosystems study for the pulp and paper industry. The experience made me realize how critical collaboration is in our discipline and that collaboration needs to exist between both an organization's internal and external stakeholders, regulators, academics and industry peers." Read more...
The following members joined NAEM's "EHS and sustainability decision-makers forum" in the last month:
- Miosotis Gonzalez, Technical EHS and Pest Control at Baxter Health Care (Puerto Rico)
- Aimee Taylor, Director of EHS at Dean Foods
- Patrick Milner, EHS Co-ordinator at Bemis Australasia (New Zealand)
- Joe Rosenbeck, EHS Professor, Graduate Program Director at the Rochester Institute of Technology
- Mohamed Abdalla, Sr. EHS Engineer at Artelia Group
- Tom Carr, Safety Professional
- Prittiee Kaushik, EHS Professional at Honda Cars (India)
- Paul Farnsworth, Environmental Compliance Specialist at Wyoming Refining Co.
- Hong Cui, EHS Manager at RB (China)
- Prateek Waghela, EHS Executive at Farmson Analgesics (India)
- John Weibel, Environmental Systems Program Manager at S&D Coffee & Tea
- Anne Culp, EHS&S Manager at Xylem Inc.
- Rick Van Ysseldyk, General and Operations Manager at All Systems Electrical
- Michael Rosenow, Industrial Hygienist at Argonne National Laboratory
- Nikki Marshall, Manager of Corporate Environmental Compliance at Mary Kay Inc.
- Aimee Toole, Environmental Specialist at American Electric Power
- Amy St. Angelo, Sr. Manager, Treasury at CVS Caremark Corp.
- Max Schmidt, EHS Manager at Baker Corp.
- Jeff Hitch, Field Specialist of EHS at Ardent Mills
- Andrea Nemer-Soto, Sustainability Specialist at ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas
- Melissa Tominack, Sustainability Coordinator at American Electric Power
- Angie Sobkowiak, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Tyson Foods
- Deborah Kim, Environmental Health & Safety Engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp.
- Karen Sieverson, ISO 14001 Program Manager at Cisco Systems
- Betsy Parsons, Manager, EHS at Biogen Idec
- Alicia Oakes, Global ISO 14001 Program Manager & Technical Lead at Cisco Systems
- Lavender Lee, Environmental Supervisor at Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
- Kris Spriano, Sr. Supply Chain Sustainability Program Manager at Cisco Systems
- Alicia Brown, Environmental Compliance Specialist at CHS
- Kellie Boles, Sustainability Specialist / Compliance Director at Georgia-Pacific
- Sandra Carte, Environmental Manager at Daimler Trucks North America
- Diana Opitz, Sr. Environmental Representative at Target Corp.
- Kisa Adkins, Global Environmental Compliance Program Manager at Newell Rubbermaid
- João Melo, EHS Coordinator Services at GE Power and Water
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