Cardinal Environment Ltd services

Very senior and director level consultancy is provided to resolve difficult regulatory issues, for example: Permitting (including Off-shore Oil & Gas), Climate Change & Eco-Taxes, Chemicals regulation, Product specific issues

HSE examples, including: ISO14001/18001 Legislation Registers (EU25 and most countries worldwide), ISO 14001/EMAS Environmental Management Systems (also on the Internet), HSE Liabilities & Future-Proofing (also on the Internet)

Fixed price and other packages are arranged for clients wishing to extend into related areas, for example: Food safety, Product quality (defined product areas), Medicines, Duty of care

Specialist advisor support, including: HSE regulation (UK - annually, renewable telephone and email support), ISO 14001 accreditation (UK and selected other countries), Other enquiry support packages as arranged

Directing and working with subject specialists and organisations e.g. the Water Research Centre, we are helping companies to identify, manage and reduce their emissions to air, water and land, so that local, national and international quality limits and objectives may be met at all times. This can entail detailed scenario and source term development, impact modelling, and determination of waste streams, in addition to recommendation of approprate mitigating and abatement measures.

In-house systems allow rapid confirmation of eco-toxin status, chemical classifications, and the legal requirements that are applicable to dangerous goods transport, declarations in material safety data sheets, chemicals hazard information and packaging (CHIP), and notifications in the European and International markets. References utilise up-to-date European Chemicals Agency listings (http://echa.europa.eu), and full support is provided to assist with internal capacity-development in this field.

Legal obligations exist for many employers in most jurisdictions to carry out health surveillance, address risk issues, consult with staff, and deal with physical, chemical and biological agents in the workplace. Client work in this area is carried out with the assistance of local research organisations and health providers, e.g. the Health and Safety Laboratory in the UK. Support is provided on duties and liabilities, and on practical steps to mitigate consequences.

Health, safety and environmental management (HSE) extends to considerations of fire risk, chemical-use licensing, disease control, and nuisance. Information and guidance is provided on local, national and international legal requirements, documentation, and curent best regulatory practice. Where appropriate, expertise is drawn from sub-contracted specialists in a project team approach directed to technical and scientific investigation, and determination of appropriate reasonable measures.

Specialists working in Cardinal`s International Law Tracking activity operate Cardinal`s EHS Law Tracking System and Cardinal`s Law and Summary Text Libraries for the UK and 200 International Jurisdictions. Cardinal`s EHS Law Tracking System is the quality-controlled process by which the Law Tracking staff identify, source, verify, store, consolidate and make available in Internet (web) language (coding), the (language of publication) text of enacted and draft EHS legislation, standards, guidance and policy texts from International, European (EC), National and Local law-makers and regulators, and their publishers.