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Home » Authors » Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP

Thea Dunmire has been in the environmental and OH&S field for a long time. She started her first project in 1978 while at the University of Iowa when she developed a system to keep track of laboratory chemicals from initial purchase to final disposal. In the 1980s she did EHS audits of Bristol Myers facilities around the world, went to law school, and then went to work for the U.S. EPA, Region 5 in Chicago. At EPA she was heavily involved in monitoring the clean up at Superfund sites. For more information about her company and services, visit ENLAR Compliance Services, Inc. http://enlar.com. Check out Thea’s blog postings at ohsas18001expert.com. She has kindly granted us permission to post this article, which appears on her blog site. ENLAR Compliance Service, Inc.

ENLAR Compliance Services, Inc. specializes in developing and offering resources and coaching to help organizations establish and maintain effective environmental and OH&S management systems. For more details about ENLAR's services, go to www.enlar.com.

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Thought Leadership

Personal Effectiveness - Think ICE

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
November 16, 2016
Last Christmas, I gave my husband Steve a page-a-day calendar with Insights from the Dalai Lama. Occasionally, Steve shares one of these daily insights with me.
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internet cutting and pasting

Beware the risks of internet cutting and pasting

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
September 1, 2016
The creation of documents based on the work of others has become commonplace in many companies.
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Thought Leadership

Avoiding obfuscation

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
July 18, 2016
Obfuscation is one of those interesting words that sounds like it means – to make obscure. Obfuscation is often associated with excessive wordiness and the use of technical jargon that is meaningful to “insiders” but not to others.
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Thought Leadership

The ethics of dabbling

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
July 14, 2016
One of the on-going obligations I have is to complete the CLE (continuing legal education) necessary to meet my state bar obligations. This includes completing 6 hours of ethics training.
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Thought Leadership

The dangers of groupthink

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
May 18, 2016
We all want to be part of the crowd. We want to belong. From an ethics perspective, conforming to group norms can be good but it can also be very, very bad.
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Thought Leadership

Telling "The Truth"

One of the ethical principles everyone knows is “Tell the Truth"
Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
March 14, 2016
Easy to say, often hard to do. It is even difficult to know what “the truth” is in some cases. Most of us mean to tell the truth but we may not always accomplish this.
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ISO 45001 standard

ISO 45001 — a missed opportunity?

Stakeholders have differing goals for the standard
Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
March 1, 2016

The draft ISO 45001 standard, “Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use,” has been released. This draft is referenced as ISO/DIS 45001.


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Banning Christmas - The power of safety myths

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
December 9, 2015

I am a big fan of PolitiFact and MythBusters. PolitiFact is an independent fact-checking journalism website. It is a division of my local newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. MythBusters is a television program on the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages and Internet videos.


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Who lives, who dies

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
November 10, 2015
A week ago, an e-mail newsletter article published by Information Week in honor of Halloween caught my attention. The title was 14 Creepiest Ways to Use Big Data.
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The ethics of saying NO

Thea Dunmire JD-CIH-CSP
August 5, 2015

Yesterday, I was contemplating my “to do” list trying to figure out how I was going to get everything done. I soon realized it was not possible – there simply were not enough hours available to do it all.


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