Regulatory Assistance

DO YOU KNOW THE RULES? WE DO

The foundation of good environmental management lies in your organization’s ability to comply with regulations. Plus, being able to anticipate regulatory changes enables your organization to minimize costs and derive a competitive advantage by being ahead of the game. However, keeping abreast of regulatory developments can be challenging.

EEM offers regulatory assistance to organizations of all sizes. With a thorough knowledge of the legislation and a wealth of experience in various geographical and industrial settings, our experts have the strategies that you need to address compliance and permit issues affecting your activities.

Services

Compliance Auditing

  • Minimizing liability by accurately assessing situations against the appropriate legal framework;
  • Federal, provincial and municipal regulations;
  • Audits tailored to site size and complexity;
  • Audit reports that include clear recommendations on corrective or preventative action.

Regulatory Assistance

  • Help clients understand requirements;
  • Conduct studies to support clients in dealing with regulations.

Regulatory Tracking

  • Legal tracking services / Surveying regulatory changes to see if and how they apply to client;
  • Minimizing liability by accurately assessing current and future risks;
  • EEM is co-founder and current partner in NIMONIK, a unique database for managing legislative requirements. The NIMONIK service is used by the EEM team and our clients to facilitate access to environmental legislative requirements, to continually update these and to link them to environmental aspects or the activities of an organization. NIMONIK has been running as an independent company since 2008. For more information: http://nimonik.ca

Permit Application Preparation

  • Assist in preparing applications and recommending supporting sampling programs as appropriate.

Track legislation for ISO compliance

NimonikApp.ca is the simplest way to track legislation. NimonikApp.ca offers easy to understand updates on environmental regulations in Canada and tools to track legislation. Numerous ISO 14001 certified companies rely on NimonikApp.ca to maintain their legal register, activity, aspect and impact registers as well as their permits and certificates of authorization. Click here to learn more on improving your legal tracking and reporting.

Case Studies

  • Environmental regulatory scan related to highway construction

    EEM, in partnership with its sister firm, Nimonik, was selected to provide an environmental regulatory update service to a highway construction consortium.

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  • Environmental, Health, and Safety compliance audits for a railway company

    EEM conducted an environment and health and safety compliance audit of railway worker camps on a 360 km section of a rail line stretching through two provinces.

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  • Assessment of the management of biomedical waste in a research centre

    EEM was retained by a research centre to identify the measures that should be implemented to ensure legal compliance to relevant biomedical waste management regulations.

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  • Legal requirements records and implementation of control measures

    ÉEM was asked by a major turbine engine manufacturer to update its legal requirements record and to document the established control measures to monitor compliance of legal requirements.

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