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What is a Compliance Audit (and Who Needs One)?

Corporate executives have a lot on their mind, but one of the top sources of stress is business risk. Managing legal compliance and quality control issues across complex operations is risky business and with growing …

Choosing Construction Safety Consultants

Choosing the right construction safety consultant can literally be a life or death decision for your workforce. It can also be a time-consuming and difficult decision for your management team. Carefully following the well-known four-phase …

Cleaning Inspection App : Nimonik Audit

Management of cleaning services can be a moving target. With high staff turnover, roving teams and varying standards, ensuring you deliver a clean facility, hotel room, or building to your clients is a challenge. Nimonik …

New Auditing Interface for EHS & Q Inspections

Over the past three years, Nimonik has worked hard to deliver the best and easiest to use audit tools. Today, we are thrilled to announce Version 3 of our Auditing interface. It is completely redesigned …

Largest Carbon Market in North America Will Expand Further

The carbon market is making an impressive entrance in North America. Ontario announced this week that the province will join the Quebec and California carbon market. Quebec and California aligned their emissions regulations in 2014 …

Canadian Government Abolishes Environmental Regulations

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Minister of the Environment Leona Aglukkaq and Minister of Industry James Moore jointly announced a major legislative change that will affect all Canadian businesses. With a slowing economy due to retail …

SI Safety Inspection Live Replacement for Lab Inspections

SI Safety Inspection Live was recently bought by Biovia – Accelrys and they are retiring it. If you are a laboratory who does regular audits and inspections against ANSI, ANAB or other standards, Nimonik is …

North American Rail Safety Needs Much Work

For one reason or another, railroad safety is horrible in the United States and Canada. As statistics found here point out, North America has over 5 times more accidents per 1,000 km of track than …

Higher Fines & Fees for Municipal Services in Canada

In the past six months, Nimonik has observed technical amendments to municipal by-laws which could be easily overlooked. The changes concern fees charged for services rendered, fines used to enforce by-laws, and refinements to certain …

Three new case studies on legal tracking and audits

Nimonik works with companies in over 25 industry sectors, helping them save time and ensure higher rates of compliance. Here are three of our favorite clients and their stories of how they used Nimonik Audit …

Hotel Inspections App for iPhone and iPad

Keeping your hotel clean and safe is essential. Nimonik works with hotels, motels, hostels, bed and breakfasts and other lodging organizations around the world to ensure their rooms and facilities are clean and safe for …

Saskatchewan Labour Laws Get a Makeover

https://nimonikapp.com/ehs_legal_updates/5602-repealed-and-replaced-occupational-health-and-safety-act-1993-and-the-labour-standards-act-saskatchewan Repealed and Replaced: Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 and the Labour Standards Act On May 1, 2014 the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (SS1993,cO-1.1) (“the repealed Act”) was repealed and replaced by …

Global EHS Audit Protocols: Alternatives to ENHESA

If you are looking for audit protocols for environmental health and safety outside of the United States or Canada, your options are limited. Last week, we blogged about your options inside the United States, but …

Fire Safety on Farms

On March 23, 2014, a fire ravaged a Devon Farm, which is located in the United Kingdom, and in the process the fire killed more than 6000 hens. BBC News reports that the Devon farm …

Great EHS products are integrated products

Integration determines the difference between good and great. If you pick up a physical product, you can detect if it is high quality or a cheap item that risks falling apart. The quality of the …

Going to the source: Supply Chain Auditing done Right

The recent Bangladeshi garment factory collapse has left over 700 people dead and many companies asking themselves questions. While some advocate for moving production back to countries with better labour and construction standards; production costs …

Will he or won’t he? …

… Canadian efforts to sway Obama’s key decision. Senate has already backed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline—but the final decision must come from President Obama (who has previously rejected it, twice).  While President Obama …

EHS legislation categorization system

When subscribing to EHS Tracker, you have been able to select legislative “sectors”. These sectors included items such as Mining, Environment, Health and Safety, and others. A significant problem was that this classification system did …

Tips for auditing like a pro

I just came across two great articles on auditor failures and a comparison between repeat and recurring audit findings. Both these pieces dispel some common assumptions about auditing and inspecting in the field. While the articles do not propose …

Solving the energy and GHG dilemma in Canada

James Hansen, the well-known climatologist, recently penned a New York Times editorial that claims exploiting Canada’s Tar Sands will irreversibly destroy the global climate. His piece came on the heels of Canada’s Commissioner on the Environment …

Environmental enforcement data in Canada

Jonathan Brun from Nimonik.ca and William Amos, LLB, of EcoJustice.ca, recently dicussed matters concerning the current access to environmental enforcement data in Canada. The discussion is based on a 2011 report by EcoJustice on environmental …

New Transcripts of Environmental Issues

For the readers amongst you, we just generated some transcripts of our recent conversations with environmental Lawyer Dianne Saxe. Erickson Wind Farm Permits Authorization Cascades Lagoons contaminated Sites Liability Quebec Laurentian Highway Noise Issues BP …

Electronics recycling

Electronics are a major environmental problems, they are filled with various metals, chemicals and plastics – all attached in such a way as to make recycling very hard. To tackle this issue, governments around the …

Converting waste plastic (back) to oil

Garbage, or oil? Or both? A Japanese man demonstrates his machine to convert plastic waste back to oil. The video is a little short on technical details (efficiency, size, etc.), but in principle, this is …

Global Warming Models are Inherently Flawed

Climatologists and financial modellers share more than we might think, or like. Fundamentally, both climate and financial models propose bold predictions based on highly sophisticated mathematical systems. One has already collapsed and the other will …

Get Angry about Chickens and their Waste

Yesterday, an excellent PBS Frontline documentary on the environmental degradation of The Chesapeake  Bay and Potomac River was aired. The show outlines some of the current problems, but also traces the interesting evolution of the …

Beyond Environmental Compliance

Canadian Environmental Regulations are getting stricter and broader by the day. We are here to help, but some companies are taking very proactive action (see this article from the Harvard Business Review). The first step to …