RATIONALE: DUE DILIGENCE & THE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AGENDA

             American Business & Industry has been impacted with the critical challenge of satisfying an extensive scope of regulatory compliance requirements.  The problem is compounded by ever-evolving laws from three independent departments of the Federal Government, as well as those regulatory offshoots at state, county, and local jurisdictions. Federally, there are some 40 regulatory laws, compounded in California by 20 other related laws, and then administered at the local agency level in most cases. 

            Vanguard takes a common sense, but serious approach to Environmental Compliance Management.  It's only sensible that industry must approach regulatory compliance with an emphasis on due diligence for all compliance laws which, in turn, must lead to a site-specific "Regulatory Compliance Agenda."  A company must know which laws require compliance and which do not.  It must know its "Regulatory Compliance Agenda" for each and every compliance year, as well as the dynamic changes due to amended and newly-enacted laws.  The stakes are too high to do otherwise when considering the repercussions of enforcement penalties for non-compliance on laws in which personnel aren't even aware of their existence, much less their compliance mandates.  Hence, Vanguard's mission is two-fold:

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The EHMMP is a state-of-the-art, internet-based MATERIALS MANAGEMENT program accessible by monthly subscription to Vanguard clients.  Its origin finds a foundation in a client’s desire to manage his product / chemical inventory daily through Vanguard's $10MM chemical technology - literally the third largest in the U.S. behind the EPA in Washington, D.C., and EPA’s government contractor assigned to selling EPA's myriad of chemical lists.  Of course, Vanguard's existing technology and service is designed with different end-result objectives in mind: to serve the client's compliance management needs with regard to, first, DETERMINING the "Regulatory Compliance Agenda" unique to the client's site-specific federal, state, county, and local requirements impacting the client’s facility; and, second, to IMPLEMENT the appropriate due diligence, task orientation, and development of defensible documentation on a Turn-Key basis necessary for satisfying the client's compliance mandates.  The essence of the EHMMP is the improved capability for Vanguard's client to track and control those hazardous materials on site to, in turn, effectively and efficiently facilitate a 365-day-a-year Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Program so vitally protective of employees, contract labor, the environment (air, land, water), the community-at-large, and the region downwind from the facility.

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INTRODUCTION & RATIONALE
In 1994, OSHA modified its Hazard Communication Standard under 29 CFR 1910.1200 to include paperless systems for MSDS compliance management responsibilities. Regardless of how MSDSs are maintained, the law requires that employers make Material Safety Data Sheets readily accessible to employees at all times on hazardous chemicals used, stored, processed, produced in the workplace. Vanguard is pleased to offer this paperless system for site-specific  MSDS Compliance to clients who wish to operate thru electronic technology and computers via the internet as opposed to the traditional approach of hard-copy MSDS inventory management. Vanguard's MSDSM goes hand-in-hand with the Electronic Hazardous Materials Management Program (EHMMP) as described below for the purpose of ongoing electronic MSDS inventory management. The dualistic operation of both programs allows the client to continually update and apprise Vanguard's "mission control" of additions and deletions to the facility's MSDS inventory, modifications in product quantity, container types, product locations within the facility, and even physical changes to the facility itself.

Vanguard's MSDS Mastermind is constructed to be site-specific to the client's facility, however, an important feature in serving the client is Vanguard's instant access to over 1 million MSDSs housed in its proprietary technology. The MSDS Mastermind and EHMMP serve as a companion combo bringing together the technology of MSDS paperless accessibility to employees in the workplace with the necessary capability of unlimited updating features and compliance maintenance at all times.

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