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Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) establishes the obligation for certain facilities to prepare and submit a Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Report, aka a Form R report, if their usage of TRI-listed chemicals exceeded applicable thresholds. The deadline for Form R reports is July 1 of each year for the previous calendar year’s data. What makes these reports challenging is that EPA continually adds new hazardous chemicals to the TRI reporting list. If you’re the owner or operator of an affected facility, you need to be aware of current reporting obligations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of your upcoming TRI submissions.

In this live webinar, the experts at VelocityEHS will guide you through the recent reporting changes for this year and provide a comprehensive overview of the entire reporting process to help you stay in compliance with TRI reporting requirements.

Attendees will learn:

• the main purpose of EPA’s TRI reporting.
• the applicability of TRI reporting.
• the key elements of completing a TRI report, including chemical use evaluation, threshold evaluation, qualifiers, and exemptions, estimating releases, Form R vs. Form A, submitting TRI forms, and revising/withdrawing/self-disclosure of TRI reports.
• common errors in completing Form R reports and Form A certification statements.
• recent TRI reporting changes that may apply to your organization.
• potential enforcement actions for TRI noncompliance.
• how chemical management software can simplify TRI compliance.

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How does biomechanics enhance AI-powered ergonomic systems that use sensorless motion capture to assess musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risks? By analyzing biomechanical data such as posture, joint angles, and repetitive movements, the AI system produces a detailed risk analysis of workplace tasks. A strong foundation in biomechanics enables experts to accurately interpret this data, identify root causes of high-risk behaviors, and recommend targeted ergonomic improvements. During this session, VelocityEHS and partner Fit For Work dive further into how utilizing this technology enhances your ergonomics program.

Topics include:

• How biomechanics improves the accuracy of AI-driven ergonomic risk assessments.
• How experts use biomechanical data to identify root causes of musculoskeletal disorder risks and recommend ergonomic improvements.
• Real-world applications where biomechanics and AI have enhanced workplace safety and reduced injury risks in industrial settings.

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Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are among the most common injuries in the workplace. The Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index consistently shows that overexertion injuries from activities such as lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, or pulling are the leading cause of injury across industries, and awkward working postures also rank in the top ten. During this session, certified professional ergonomists from VelocityEHS and partner Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics discuss the common reasons why organizations fail to deploy an effective and sustainable ergonomics program.

Topics include:

• The common reasons why workplace ergonomics deployments fail.
• The typical causes of these failures.
• How to avoid these failures.
• How to develop and deploy a formalized and sustainable ergonomics process.
• Examples of what a good approach and management system for ergonomics looks like.

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Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is a vital tool for identifying and managing risk in an organization. It involves breaking down work into job tasks and paying close attention to employees as they perform the tasks, use tools, and interact with work environments. Once hazards are identified, you can then initiate corrective actions to reduce risk. There is a linkage between ergonomics and JSAs, and we’re about to uncover five actionable strategies to help strengthen ergonomics considerations within JSAs. During this session, we will discuss how JSAs enable proactive management of ergonomics, and how this methodology can integrate with other aspects of your health and safety programs.

Topics include:

• How to use JSAS to identify ergonomics hazards through prioritization
• Creating targeted ergonomics interventions using JSAs
• Using JSAs to allow for employee involvement and feedback 

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AGCO Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of smart solutions for sustainable agriculture, headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, United States. A challenge that AGCO faced was creating an ergonomics process in a unique environment that commonly contains long cycle time operations and few classic workstations. This customer case study highlights their efforts to overcome their challenge, utilizing the continuous improvement spirit of an ergonomics process to build skill across the organization, and more importantly, build excitement to ensure the process is sustained.

Topics include:

• The necessary planning prior to implementation of a global ergonomics process (North America, South America, European locations).
• The best practices of how AGCO improved the workplace by developing effective solutions, even when there are few succinct workstations.
• How AGCO engaged and supported personnel, including Industrial Engineers, Operations and the Lean teams to truly create an ergonomics process supported by the entire organization.

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EHS professionals carry a huge weight on their shoulders with employees actively relying on their expertise, knowledge and actions to keep them safe. When it comes to procedures, documentation, visibility and compliance, there’s little room for error and simply not enough time in the day to accomplish everything on the to-do list. That’s when a comprehensive, easy-to-use software system can assist by helping to standardize your processes, ensure consistency, and complete time-consuming tasks, freeing up time to focus on what’s most important.

If you’re in the market for a new EHS software system or looking to upgrade your current solution, you don’t want to miss the VelocityEHS Demo Day on June 11. During this half-day virtual event, our experts will provide high-level demonstrations of the four VelocityEHS solutions currently on our new Accelerate® Platform: Safety, Chemical Management, Ergonomics, and Operational Risk. Bonus: you’ll also get a peek at the Contractor Safety solution recently enhanced with AI-powered document verification!

Buying software can be one of the most important decisions you’ll make as an EHS professional. Attend this event to see why the major software third party analyst, Verdantix, has named VelocityEHS as a Leader in their Green Quadrant for EHS software, and awarded us the highest scores in the industry for Safety, Ergonomics and Chemical Management!

Agenda (Eastern Time)

9:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Job Safety Analysis: Standardize & Simplify Your JSA Process

9:40 AM to 10:10 AM
Industrial Ergonomics: Use AI & ML to Address MSD Risks

10:20 AM to 10:50 AM
Safety Audit and Inspections: Reducing Risk While Saving Time

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Chemical Management: A Complete Chemical Footprint

11:40 AM to 12:10 PM
Incident Management: The Foundation for Safety Management

12:20 PM to 12:50 PM
Contractor Safety: Revolutionizing Contractor Management

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Learn more about the EHS Daily Advisor NOW Tech-AI Virtual Event

Global organizations struggle to effectively and sustainably manage musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risks due to the limitations of traditional, manual observation-based ergonomics assessments. These are often time-consuming, resource-intensive, difficult to scale, and potentially unreliable, which hinders proactive risk reduction and impacts overall worker safety and productivity.

This is where the power of AI and machine learning can be applied to the tools of a musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk management system to offer a user-friendly and more reliable option. Using sensorless motion capture models to assess MSD risk factors from a video of a task enables efficient and highly accurate risk evaluation across diverse and complex job functions, eliminating the need for specialized equipment or extensive ergonomics expertise.

During this session, we’ll dive into the science and strategy of leveraging AI and machine learning technology to enhance your industrial ergonomics program. You’ll learn how it can help you more effectively and accurately assess the MSD risks in your workplace, identify root causes, and guide your job improvement process. The result can be a scalable ergonomics process that engages and empowers workers in risk reduction, reduces injuries and provides leadership with clear, reliable data for informed decision-making.  

Learning objectives:

• Explain the limitations of traditional, manual ergonomics assessments in a large-scale business setting.
• Describe the role of AI and machine learning in MSD risk management, focusing on how it can improve reliability and accuracy.
• Understand how AI and machine learning can be used to identify root causes of MSD risks and recommend effective improvements.
•  Analyze a real-world case study demonstrating the successful implementation of AI-powered ergonomic assessments, identifying key strategies and outcomes.

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Download our new eBook to learn how to identify and address common “bottlenecks” in the ergonomics management process.

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Many EHS professionals are responsible for managing chemical safety at companies with large chemical inventories. It’s already challenging enough to keep inventory records and the safety data sheet (SDS) library up to date, but these challenges are compounded when you think about the need to understand the ingredients in your chemical products. Understanding your inventory at the ingredient level is necessary to make sure you’re compliant with applicable EHS regulations.

For example, PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), or “forever chemicals,” are under increasing global scrutiny due to their harmful environmental and health impacts. The U.S. EPA continues to add more PFAS chemicals to the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) list as the science and research becomes available, triggering reporting requirements for even small amounts. This means now, more than ever, you need to know if you have PFAS in your inventory. You also need to know if you have any chemical ingredients listed as EPA Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) and Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHSs) to comply with Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements and emergency planning and reporting requirements. Ingredient-level visibility is also a crucial foundation for occupational health and safety (OH&S) management when dealing with Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs), which protect workers from dangerous chemical exposures. Without an easy way of seeing ingredients and flagging chemicals with OELs, your employees may be at risk and your organization may receive violations and associated fines.

As important as ingredient-level information about your chemical inventory is, it’s hard to achieve without the proper tools. The days of manually reviewing safety data sheets (SDSs) are outdated, time-consuming, and subject to human error.

During this webinar, VelocityEHS experts Phil Molé, MPH and Lyn Ip will talk about common challenges in managing chemicals and the ways that ingredient-level indexing, including PFAS indicator tools, can help. You’ll learn about:

• Major regulations, including recent updates, that require you to know your inventory at the ingredient level;
• The ways modern tools allow you to identify chemicals on specific regulatory radar screens, providing high level summaries of the most important information; and
• How to use this information to not only enhance your operational safety management, but also improve your governance of operational risk, building in business resilience and helping to compliance-proof your operations. 

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Download this HazCom Final Rule FAQ to get the insights you need to meet updated OSHA HazCom requirements under the 2024 final rule.

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