Environmental safety & health and the information superhighway
Environmental safety and health (ES&H) compliance is strongly regulated by the Government. Most companies that have to deal with these regulations are forced to grapple with volumes of Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) documentation and in some cases, the International Organization for Standards (ISO) if they sell their products abroad. This includes understanding the regulations as well as having to refer to various parts, sometimes on a daily basis. Being compliant with these regulations is further complicated by numerous reports, many of which overlap and are due to the Government at different times during the year. The problem is that ES&H professionals and managers spend an inordinate amount of time digging through regulations and filing reports rather than focusing on the ES&H job. By automating this process, the ES&H professional can spend more time out in the field implementing ES&H programs and less time ensuring compliance documentation is filed on time and wasting time manually digging through regulations. Examples include, having Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) available on computer at sites requiring employee review, managing the document flow through the review process using computers, integrating engineering drawings and other documents using computers, and managing and tracking all of the training requirements using computers required for OSHA, EPA and ISO compliance. This paper addresses computer technology in solving ES&H-related issues. State-of-the-art hardware architectures including client-server and Computer Output to Laser Disk (COLD) are presented. Solutions are presented for various systems sizes.
- OSTI ID:
- 391139
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960623-; TRN: 96:004554-0059
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International conference on health, safety and environment in oil and gas exploration products, New Orleans, LA (United States), 9 Jun - 12 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of The third international conference on health, safety & environment in oil and gas exploration and production. Proceedings - Volume 1; PB: 941 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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