Virtually all environmental, safety, and health (ESH) management activities are regulatory driven. The number and diversity of these regulations grows increasingly complex. However, almost all ESH regulations share at least one common thread: they require a written plan to ensure compliance. Because these plans are generated to fulfill regulatory requirements, they seldom prove to be useful to the facility beyond meeting these requirements. However, we believe that these plans should not only meet the letter of the law, but also intent. After all, what good is a worker safety plan that is incomprehensible to facility personnel?



We have experience authoring all types of environmental compliance plans, including:

  • AHERA/ASHARA Asbestos Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Plans
  • Asbestos Abatement Plans
  • Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP)
  • Soil and Erosion Control Plans
  • Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plans
  • NPDES Preliminary Engineering Reports
  • NPDES Best Management Practices (BMP) Plans
  • Slug Control Plans
  • Corrective Action Plans
  • Facility Closure Plans
  • Process Safety Management (PSM) Plans/Risk Management Plans (RMP)
  • Contingency Plans


Our engineers have the knowledge and experience to ensure your facility’s compliance with these complex regulations, providing maximum facility operational flexibility and safety.

The first step in developing any of these plans is the identification of any and all regulations applicable to the facility that require a compliance plan. Next, the required elements of the plan must be identified and outlined. These regulations, as well as the compliance requirements, are continuously being reviewed and rewritten. Because of this, we maintain vast computer databases that allow our staff instant access to the most current regulations. Via the Internet, our staff is able to monitor changing regulatory requirements and any guidance documents associated with them. Of course, we also keep an eye on the regulations the old-fashioned way by maintaining ongoing relationships with personnel from the regulatory community.

In the past, access to the information contained in one of these plans required leafing through page after page of frivolous information. Often, problems could have been corrected in the time it took to find, read, and follow appropriate response procedures. All of this extra downtime affects the facility’s performance. Recognizing this problem, we are pioneering ways to minimize plant downtime. One of our most unique technologies is our ability to deliver online products - O&M Manuals and compliance plans on CD-ROM, where the information is easily available to those who need it: plant personnel and operators.


Asbestos Management Plans

Our staff has been involved in the development of compliance plans consistent with the requirements of federal asbestos abatement regulations for over twenty-five years. During this time, we have gained extensive insight into the complex issues associated with these plans. Whether the requirement is an Operations & Maintenance Plan, to ensure employee awareness and safety, or a full scale abatement plan, we have the knowledge and expertise to assist your facility with all aspects of regulatory compliance. By maintaining a complete staff of licensed asbestos inspectors, management planners, project designers, and abatement supervisors, we have the unique ability of being able to design flexible compliance plans that incorporate the perspectives of all people potentially involved with the project.


Stormwater Compliance Plans

Promulgation of rules governing the collection, treatment, and discharge of stormwater has created yet another area of environmental regulation that requires detailed plans in order to show compliance. Our engineers have been involved with the development of stormwater compliance plans since promulgation of the stormwater regulations. We know all aspects of stormwater compliance plans including Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans and associated plans, such as sediment and erosion control plans.


Process Safety Management / Risk Management Plans

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 include regulations requiring a risk assessment of all possible accidental releases of regulated substances. The details of this process hazard assessment (PHA) are a portion of what is required to be submitted as part of a facility’s Risk Management Plan. The plan required by this regulation strongly parallels similar requirements from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s Process Safety Management rule. Because of our experience in the development of these plans, we can work with a facility to develop the required documents.


Integrated Contingency Plan

The National Response Team (comprised of the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Minerals Management Service, and Research and Special Programs Administration) has jointly published the Integrated Contingency Plan Guidance or "One Plan". This guidance is intended to be used by facilities to prepare and consolidate the multiple emergency response plans needed to comply with various regulations into one functional plan or ICP (Integrated Contingency Plan).


Facilities may be subject to one or more of the following federal regulations which require emergency response planning:

  • EPA Oil Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan
  • EPA Oil Facility Response Plan
  • EPA Hazardous Waste Contingency Plan
  • EPA Risk Management Plan
  • EPA Best Management Practices Plan
  • OSHA Emergency Action Plan
  • OSHA Emergency Response Plan
  • OSHA Hazard Communication Plan
  • OSHA Process Safety Management Plan
  • USCG Facility Management
  • DOT/RSPA Pipeline Response Plan
  • MMS Facility Response Plan


The ICP guidance is intended to minimize duplication in the preparation and use of these plans at a facility.

Familiar with the provisions of the ICP guidance, we are prepared to assist you in preparation of an Integrated Contingency Plan to reduce the needless and oftentimes confusing duplication of efforts.