59 Days: Help! I have to fill out this report! What do I (really) do? (This blog can help)
SARA 312 Tier 2: 59 Days until deadline & counting down
And the documentation from previous years is, well, sketchy at best
Tusk album by Fleetwood Mac, Sara is one of the songs
“If you think SARA is a song on a Fleetwood Mac album , your facility might be in trouble” overheard at SARA 312 Tier 2 training class
If you’re new to the EPCRA Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act 312 Tier II/2 report (from now on I’ll just use Tier2), you’re not alone.
As the “old guard” (my generation) retires or otherwise steps out of the day to day workforce around hazardous materials, a whole new cohort is moving in.
Digital natives with a vision of changing and improving the world. Exciting! I can’t wait to see what you do! (and I hope to be part of it for a long while still).
But if your predecessor filling out this role was long gone before you came in, and if the documentation was, shall we say, sketchy at best, I’m here for you!
For the next 59 days now and counting down, I’ll share my knowledge not only of how to complete this report (accurately, timely, efficiently), I’ll show you how the information you track down for it can be an asset to your organization.
That management may not fully appreciate yet. And may not have used fully.
There are lots of good resources that will take you through the requirements, special cases, etc. I especially like what Michigan EGLE Environment Great Lakes Energy has put together. I’m not going to try to duplicate that.
What I’ll be going into is the philosophy and benefits so you can share them with your management.
Oh, and we’ll be going deep in the weeds about the actual steps required to get the raw data you need, clean it up so its usable, and manipulate and massage it so you can use it to determine what needs to be on the report. After that it’s pretty straightforward.
With the least possible effort. But structured so that you can explain every step along the way to any auditors or inspectors who come asking questions.
Hey, when we started, the Cuyahoga River was still on fire. So a lot of progress has already been made. Even if it’s never enough (continuous improvement, right?)
We saw the regulations get passed and helped implement them. Tap into us for our “institutional memory” so you don’t have to make the same mistakes we did.
Then go change the world!
Call to the community:
Are you new to the report? How much background and detail were you left from previous years reports? What do you see your biggest challenges are to getting the Tier 2 report out on time?
More to follow, here’s to Mar 2nd!
