By Dave Johnson, Phylmar newsletter editor Four out of five leading companies worldwide now report on sustainability in regard to revenue, according to KPMG’s 2020 Survey of Sustainability Reporting. Sustainability reporting has been trending up for decades yet in 1993, KPMG’s first study found a paltry 12 percent of companies published sustainability reports. Now 98 percent of top revenue firms…
Our very own Mark Katchen was just featured in the Environmental Business Journal. Here’s an excerpt of the Q&A article with him, courtesy of the EBJ: PHYLMAR NETWORK FILLS THE GAP BETWEEN GLOBAL EXPANSE AND LOCAL EXPERTISE For over two decades, The Phylmar Group has assisted Environmental Health and Safety Professionals in creating and maintaining safe and healthy…
Many organizations, including The Phylmar Group, contributed to the recent presentation of a training module in Shanghai for about 25 students. The goal of the new Occupational Hygiene Training Association is to take the courses to the developing world as an international certification is developed. To read more, click here.
July 26, 2010 – Due to a severe lack of environmental health and safety (EHS) talent throughout the developing world, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) has partnered with General Electric and The Phylmar Group, a Los Angeles-based environmental health and safety consultancy, to present a course that was successfully completed in Shanghai this month. To read more, click here.
Frank Mottek, host of CBS Radio’s KNX 1070 Business Report, interviewed Mark Katchen from the American Industrial Hygiene Conference in Denver to discuss the business impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and other environmental hazards. In the interview, Katchen emphasizes the importance of sustainability making economic sense. Katchen said that people who embrace sustainability as a core competency within their organization stand to benefit no matter what the current market conditions may be. The interview aired throughout Southern California May 29-31, 2010. To listen to it, click here.
An issue of vital importance to the fields of occupational health and safety is the need to build global capacity through education and training. Many major multinational corporations and firms in the developing world are expanding into locations with limited inherent capability in the protection of workplace health and safety. In most countries,there is a shortage of adequately trained professionals, such as occupational physicians and nurses, occupational hygienists, ergonomists and other members of the occupational health multidisciplinary team. Read more…
Mark Katchen, managing principal of the Phylmar Group, discusses how companies are addressing sustainability initiatives on CNN Local Edition with Brad Pomerance.
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