In this series of articles, we explain some basic remediation terminology and different approaches as well as offer a response to the common question of remediation costing. This information will be useful to those who are looking for preliminary and “ballpark” estimates for timelines and site cleanup costs. For a consultant who specializes in site […]
Author Archive: Randall D. Shaw, Ph.D.
Effective Project Execution in a Challenging Environment During a Challenging Time
How can we make a project in one of the most challenging countries where Inogen provides services – Afghanistan – even more challenging? Simple, execute the project during COVID-19 lockdown times! In this article we focus on challenges associated with COVID-19 restrictions and what we did to complete a successful project for our client. Inogen […]
Introducing TIPS – Today’s Incident Prevention System
Notwithstanding the claims promoted by many companies of their million upon millions of hours of work done without a loss time incident, we are all very much aware that accidents happen. (If interested on my thoughts on the incident reporting scam please read this blog post – Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Loss Time Injuries).Accidents […]
“I Don’t Give a **** If You Don’t Believe in Climate Change…”
Paris Agreement, climate change, and greenhouse gasses – do you understand what these terms really mean? Do you understand that decisions we make today will have consequences far into the future? While climate change may seemingly have no apparent consequence to the day-today activities of most HSE professionals, I firmly believe that each and every […]
Out-of-Site, Out-of-Mind – Leaks from Buried Concrete Structures
In my last blog post I discussed the issue of vapor instruction into buildings from subsurface sources, namely contaminated underlying soils and groundwater. In the article, I want to go into a bit more detail on one of the more common sources of site soil and groundwater contamination – that of leaks from underground structures […]