By managing your environmental issues and requirements proactively with current regulations, your company can gain substantial benefits through reduced operating costs, increased efficiency, enhanced corporate reputation, and improved community relations. Not maintaining your business with current environmental regulations can be costly. Increased regulatory scrutiny and stronger punitive measures have upped the ante for companies not in compliance with local, state, and federal environmental regulations.
Apex helps our clients address corporate environmental concerns with tailored, cost-effective assessment and compliance solutions. We work in partnership with you to deliver the services you need including:
Compliance audits. Audits are the cornerstone of successful compliance programs. They allow you to identify underlying and systematic issues and take corrective actions. Apex can audit for statutory, regulatory, and internal policy compliance. In addition, we can help you design and implement an audit program, supplement your in-house staff, and develop customized audit protocols and self-assessment tools.
Environmental program development. Apex can develop an environmental management program incorporating regulatory databases, waste tracking and reporting software, and custom programs to mange environmental data.
Pollution Prevention. We can help you identify pollution prevention opportunities, thus significantly reducing your compliance burden. Apex is experienced in conducting waste minimization audits and developing and implementing pollution plans in a number of different industries. Apex’s beneficial reuse and recycling plans are saving our clients thousands of dollars a year.
Permitting. Negotiating or modifying a permit modification can not only be time consuming, but can also require specialized expertise. Apex’s experienced staff has prepared and negotiated a wide variety of environmental permit agreements for our clients.
Reporting. Apex can supplement your staff by preparing regulatory reports and compliance plans including SARA Title Tier I/II and Form R submittals, integrated compliance plans, and Biennial RCRA hazardous waste reporting.
Training. Apex’s training programs can help you minimize accidents, reduce potential liability, and comply with regulatory training requirements. We tailor each class to your requirements. Courses include environmental laws and regulations, facility-specific RCRA training, emergency response and preparedness, hazard communications, radiation safety, OSHA training, chemical hazard training, and more.