Mark Katchen MS MBA CIH

Mark Katchen MS MBA CIH

Mark Katchen, MS, MBA, CIH, FAIHA is Managing Principal of The Phylmar Group—an organization that manages three business consortia in the EHS/sustainability area. The consortia are composed of Fortune 500 companies interested in monitoring regulatory changes and exchanging information on compliance issues and implementing best practices. More information can be found at www.phylmar.com. Katchen’s consulting expertise includes optimizing the EHS/Sustainability function by focusing on mission alignment, resource allocation and utilization, business process improvement, and demonstrating the value of EHS/Sustainability to the organization.

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Internal health and safety audits: Asset or liability?

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Mark Katchen MS MBA CIH
April 3, 2018
Internal audits are a fact of life for many environment, health and safety professionals -- especially those working for large companies. I recently had a discussion with a long-time Phylmar client about internal safety audits. There is a lot of guidance and advice available on how to prepare for such audits and how to create corrective action plans to respond to audit findings.
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Caring and safety cultures

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Mark Katchen MS MBA CIH
April 3, 2018
Recently, I did some health and safety “due diligence” consulting work for a client who wanted to acquire a small, 65-employee business. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting with supervisors and employees and touring the facility and was struck by two important findings: this small company didn’t have much by way of written programs that supported health and safety regulatory compliance AND it had a remarkably good safety record -- one that much larger companies would envy.
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Re-Imagining OSHA in the Trump era

Would doing away with safety regs help or hurt you?
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Mark Katchen MS MBA CIH
September 1, 2017

OSHA’s regs and enforcement have framed health and safety work for decades. If OSHA reduces its regulatory activity (delaying or reversing current regulations) and moves toward technical assistance, what might the impact be?


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