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Fifteen member companies of the ORC Occupational Safety and Health Group -- ALCOA, AlliedSignal, ARCO, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Colgate-Palmolive, Dow, Duke Power, Eli Lilly, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto, M&M Mars, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Schering-Plough -- formed a task force to work with ORC and Arthur Andersen to tailor traditional financial investment analysis approaches and apply them to achieve a better understanding of the business impacts of health, safety and environmental investments.
Company Best Practice: Identification and Assessment of Stakeholder Input and Issues
BSR Sustainability Conference Summary- November 2010
In a July 19 letter to OSHA staff, Assistant Secretary David Michaels wrote: "After forty years, OSHA needs a fundamental transformation in the way we address workplace hazards, and in our relationship to employers and workers." His letter outlined the goals (identified by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis) for which OSHA shares responsibility with other Department of Labor agencies, i.e., securing safe and healthy workplaces, particularly in high-risk industries; and ensuring workers' voice in the workplace, and attached a list of strategies formulated by the Secretary for
This survey asked about the smoking policies in effect at ORC member companies. Twenty-one companies responded to the survey questionnaire with 19 indicating that their companies did have a smoking policy and two indicating that they did not. Only 7 responders indicated that there was a total ban on smoking on company property, the remainder indicated that that smoking was prohibited only in certain areas. One responder said they were planning to initiate a total ban in 2011. Thirteen responders indicated that employees could smoke in their personal cars when parked
In a Federal Register notice published April 15, EPA announced that a new RMP submission method, called RMP*eSubmit, should be used by facilities submitting their RMPs electronically beginning March 13, 2009. The new submission method will be On-line via EPA’s secure Web site. The new submission method is applicable to owners and operators of stationary sources subject to EPA’s Chemical Accident Prevention regulations. These regulations require covered entitites to submit RMPs on their processes in a method and format specified by EPA.
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