The Phylmar Group

WorkCare
Case Presentation
A 49 year-old lead electrician, who had been employed for six years on an petroleum drilling site, received an unsatisfactory performance evaluation due to lateness. During a counseling session this employee claimed that medical problems were the reason for his lateness.
Clinical Evaluation
In a clinical evaluation on January 7, 1999 the following information was gathered. This employee has been late 6 times in the last year, 4 times in the last 3 months. All latenesses were over 2 hours. Employee was also noted to fall asleep during meetings.
Past medical history …

McDaniel Lambert, Inc.
McDaniel Lambert, Inc. offers an intensive one-day Community Meeting Workshop. The workshop is designed to assist clients in preparing for the RMP public meetings now required by law or for other community meetings. The one-day course provides hands-on training in the principles and practice of risk communication. Participants learn how to:
· Avoid the pitfalls of presentations
· Plan to avoid crisis–and develop meeting strategies that work
· Establish credibility before, during, and after the meeting
· Set up the meeting space to encourage fruitful exchange
· Explain data with clarity
· Watch body …

Case Study:
MANAGING EHS INFORMATION IN THE INFORMATION AGE FOR A GLOBAL OIL COMPANY: USING EMAIL SYSTEMS, INTERNET, AND CD-ROM TECHNOLOGY
Rapid Global Electronic communication is becoming the norm, and this provides major challenges and opportunities in the world of EHS. The ability to acquire and process information has lead major corporations to develop and rely on EHS “systems management.” Many companies are creating enterprise-wide EHS systems, but there is a gap between the improved ability to collect the data and the proper utilization of it to enhance the value of an …

Environmental Health Decisions
Environmental Health Decisions has prepared a number of Material Safety Data Sheets for clients in United States and Canada. These MSDSs are in full compliance with WHMIS regulations. Since requirements for preparation of MSDSs in Canada are specific to each province, it was necessary for this consultant to become familiar with a variety of regulations. MSDSs prepared to be compliant with WHMIS regulations provide companies in the United States with the ability to sell their product in Canada. This consultant has extensive experience in the preparation of MSDSs …

Environmental Health Decisions
Environmental Health Decisions has performed and managed several hundred human health risk assessments for local and national clients. Site experience includes federal and state Superfund sites, manufactured gas plant sites, RCRA sites, former gasoline station sites, and Brownfields sites. Using risk assessment, the consultant has successfully negotiated risk-based remedial investigations, cleanup levels, no action alternatives and remedial action plans, translating into millions of dollars in reduced remediation requirements.

Environmental Health Decisions
Environmental Health Decisions has been involved in the investigation and analysis of legal and regulatory issues and controversial claims regarding chemical causation of diseases in humans. The consultant’s solid technical background coupled with frequent involvement in risk and hazard evaluation projects provides the client with a broad perspective on the technical, economic and regulatory considerations for human health hazard evaluation work. The consultant has served as an expert witness, providing depositions and court room testimony. She has testified on issues regarding health effects of ammonia and solvents, and …

Environmental Health Decisions
This consultant has prepared hundreds of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) for petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, fertilizers, plastics, metals, fabric protectors, and pesticides. The consultant currently administers the MSDS program for several multinational companies in the oil and gas, fertilizer, and metals industries. Expertise is provided in U.S. and Canadian regulations. As part of the MSDS program, the consultant tracks regulatory information pertinent to the preparation of MSDSs, including Proposition 65, CERCLA, RCRA, and DOT.

McDaniel Lambert, Inc
International Environmental Strategy and Media Program
Major Energy Resources Company
Thailand
Occupational medical physician and toxicologist developed a communication strategy and media program to answer questions raised in the press about the safety of fish around oil platforms in the Gulf of Thailand. Consultants trained and advised upper management and frontline personnel in working with the press and public. The media strategy included an editorial board presentation to The Bangkok Post as well as press tours of the platforms. They also designed and oversaw health and ecological risk assessments designed to …

McDaniel Lambert, Inc
Overseas Community Outreach Program
Major Energy Resources Company
The Philippines
Occupational medical physician and toxicologist developed a risk communication and outreach strategy to assist a geothermal operation in The Philippines located in a region where people were living in geothermal fields and regularly blockading roads leading to geothermal wells to express their displeasure with the operation. The consultants initiated proactive communications with the local community and the national utility, which buys the energy produced at the geothermal wells to sell to the public. The team conducted sensitivity training for frontline employees …

McDaniel Lambert, Inc
Crisis Planning and Response
Agricultural Chemicals Company, Alaska
Occupational medical physician and toxicologist provided risk communication training and assisted with crisis response planning for large agricultural chemicals company. The plan and other preparatory work allowed the facility to quickly resolve issues following the capsizing of a barge carrying 12,500 tons of urea granules. The consultant team worked with the Coast Guard to develop safe urea exposure levels following the spill and assisted with communications for both internal and external audiences, including emergency responders. The effort effectively managed the crisis and …