Integrated hazardous substances management unit
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1. Apparatus for monitoring handling of hazardous substances at a facility to promote compliance with applicable laws governing such substances, the apparatus comprising:
- Hazardous Materials Index data means for constructing and recording a Chemical Profile for pure chemicals and mixtures thereof containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance used or produced at the facility for which a Material Safety Data Sheet is required, and for maintaining a chemical location table containing an inventory of hazardous substances, including amounts and concentrations thereof, that are present at a given time at each of a selected group of locations at a facility;
Hazardous Materials Management data means for receiving and recording information on arrival of a hazardous substance at, and departure of a hazardous substance from, the facility, for determining whether a Material Safety Data Sheet exists for such substance and, if this Sheet is not yet available, for creating a commitment by the facility to acquire or prepare a Material Safety Data Sheet for such hazardous substance if such substance is received or produced at the facility, for tracking the movement and use of a hazardous substance at the facility, for maintaining and storing for at least one chemical process that occurs at the facility a process definition, including what mixtures, process by-products, waste by-products, chemical emissions and waste discharges are generated or consumed at each stage of such process, and for determining the amount of a hazardous substance stored at the facility at a given time;
Hazardous Permit Management data means for monitoring and recording applications, approvals, renewals and expirations of regulatory agency permits allowing the facility to store, use, emit or discharge specified hazardous substances, for monitoring and recording facility chemical emissions and waste discharges and the results of detection and testing of specified hazardous substance emissions and discharges, for monitoring and recording variations between actual emissions and discharges and permitted emissions and discharges, and for monitoring and recording the results of source reduction measures, if any, implemented at the facility;
Human Resource Management data means for monitoring and recording exposure of each worker at the facility to specified hazardous substances, for determining when, if at all, a worker has received a maximum permissible exposure to any of these specified hazardous substances at the facility, for monitoring and recording reported work-related illnesses and injuries for one or more employees at the facility, and for monitoring and recording work-related training received and to be received by each worker at the facility;
Hazardous Waste Management data means for monitoring and recording selected waste management information concerning the facility, including production, accumulation, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste, for constructing and recording a Waste Profile containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance produced at the facility, for monitoring and recording the changes, if any, in hazardous waste produced, based upon process modification, input material substitution, reformulation of an end product produced at the facility or modifications in inventory management implemented at the facility, for monitoring the length of time a hazardous waste has accumulated in a given waste container at the facility, for monitoring and recording the size, location, use, movement, treatment and disposal of a hazardous waste container at the facility, for creating a commitment and recording completion of that commitment, to dispose of hazardous waste accumulated in a waste container when the time this waste has been accumulated in that container reaches a selected time interval, and for generating hazardous waste labels and Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests to be used with a container containing hazardous waste that is to be disposed of away from the facility;
Hazardous Commitments Management data means for monitoring and recording hazardous substance compliance requirements, and the time requirements, if any, for such compliance, applicable to the facility, for advising the facility of safety inspections, examinations of safety equipment and equipment decontaminations to be performed periodically, and for monitoring creation of periodic hazardous substance reports for the facility; and
a database means, connected to each of these six data means, for integrating these six data means, for identifying data that are common to at least one designated pair of data means, and for creating, storing and updating these common data so that such data can be accessed and used by each member of a pair of data means to perform tasks assigned to that data means to facilitate exchange of information between at least one of the following pairs of data means;
Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Materials Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Permit Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Index data means and Human Resource Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Permit Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Management data means and Human Resource Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means;
Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means;
Hazardous Permit Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means;
Hazardous Permit Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means;
Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means;
Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; and
Hazardous Waste Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means.
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Apparatus that provides an integrated approach for all management activities for hazardous substances used or generated at a facility, including form generation and compliance with the reporting requirements. The apparatus includes six functional groupings and a database schema or coordinator that integrates these groupings and allows them to share and exchange relevant information. The functional groupings include a hazardous materials index grouping (chemical profiles, waste profiles, Material Safety Data Sheets, etc.), a hazardous materials management grouping (MSDS generation, process definition, materials transfers, etc.), a human resource management grouping (training, exposure limits, etc.) and a hazardous commitment management grouping (compliance requirements and deadlines). Optionally, a hazardous waste management grouping (waste accumulations, Hazardous Waste Manifests, etc.) or a hazardous permit management grouping (permit approvals and renewals, etc.), or both, may be combined with all of the other four functional groupings to form an operating system. Optionally, the hazardous materials index grouping plus the hazardous materials management grouping plus the database schema may be combined with one of the other four functional groupings to form an operating system. Optionally, the hazardous materials index grouping plus the database schema may be combined with one of the other five functional groupings to form an operating system.
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1. Apparatus for monitoring handling of hazardous substances at a facility to promote compliance with applicable laws governing such substances, the apparatus comprising:
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Hazardous Materials Index data means for constructing and recording a Chemical Profile for pure chemicals and mixtures thereof containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance used or produced at the facility for which a Material Safety Data Sheet is required, and for maintaining a chemical location table containing an inventory of hazardous substances, including amounts and concentrations thereof, that are present at a given time at each of a selected group of locations at a facility; Hazardous Materials Management data means for receiving and recording information on arrival of a hazardous substance at, and departure of a hazardous substance from, the facility, for determining whether a Material Safety Data Sheet exists for such substance and, if this Sheet is not yet available, for creating a commitment by the facility to acquire or prepare a Material Safety Data Sheet for such hazardous substance if such substance is received or produced at the facility, for tracking the movement and use of a hazardous substance at the facility, for maintaining and storing for at least one chemical process that occurs at the facility a process definition, including what mixtures, process by-products, waste by-products, chemical emissions and waste discharges are generated or consumed at each stage of such process, and for determining the amount of a hazardous substance stored at the facility at a given time; Hazardous Permit Management data means for monitoring and recording applications, approvals, renewals and expirations of regulatory agency permits allowing the facility to store, use, emit or discharge specified hazardous substances, for monitoring and recording facility chemical emissions and waste discharges and the results of detection and testing of specified hazardous substance emissions and discharges, for monitoring and recording variations between actual emissions and discharges and permitted emissions and discharges, and for monitoring and recording the results of source reduction measures, if any, implemented at the facility; Human Resource Management data means for monitoring and recording exposure of each worker at the facility to specified hazardous substances, for determining when, if at all, a worker has received a maximum permissible exposure to any of these specified hazardous substances at the facility, for monitoring and recording reported work-related illnesses and injuries for one or more employees at the facility, and for monitoring and recording work-related training received and to be received by each worker at the facility; Hazardous Waste Management data means for monitoring and recording selected waste management information concerning the facility, including production, accumulation, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste, for constructing and recording a Waste Profile containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance produced at the facility, for monitoring and recording the changes, if any, in hazardous waste produced, based upon process modification, input material substitution, reformulation of an end product produced at the facility or modifications in inventory management implemented at the facility, for monitoring the length of time a hazardous waste has accumulated in a given waste container at the facility, for monitoring and recording the size, location, use, movement, treatment and disposal of a hazardous waste container at the facility, for creating a commitment and recording completion of that commitment, to dispose of hazardous waste accumulated in a waste container when the time this waste has been accumulated in that container reaches a selected time interval, and for generating hazardous waste labels and Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests to be used with a container containing hazardous waste that is to be disposed of away from the facility; Hazardous Commitments Management data means for monitoring and recording hazardous substance compliance requirements, and the time requirements, if any, for such compliance, applicable to the facility, for advising the facility of safety inspections, examinations of safety equipment and equipment decontaminations to be performed periodically, and for monitoring creation of periodic hazardous substance reports for the facility; and a database means, connected to each of these six data means, for integrating these six data means, for identifying data that are common to at least one designated pair of data means, and for creating, storing and updating these common data so that such data can be accessed and used by each member of a pair of data means to perform tasks assigned to that data means to facilitate exchange of information between at least one of the following pairs of data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Materials Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Permit Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Permit Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Hazardous Permit Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means; Hazardous Permit Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means; Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; and Hazardous Waste Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. Apparatus for monitoring handling of hazardous substances at a facility to promote compliance with applicable laws governing such substances, the apparatus comprising:
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Hazardous Materials Index data means for constructing and recording a Chemical Profile for pure chemicals and mixtures thereof containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance used or produced at the facility for which a Material Safety Data Sheet is required, and for maintaining a chemical location table containing an inventory of hazardous substances, including amounts and concentrations thereof, that are present at a given time at each of a selected group of locations at a facility; Hazardous Materials Management data means for receiving and recording information on arrival of a hazardous substance at, and departure of a hazardous substance from, the facility, for determining whether a Material Safety Data Sheet exists for such substance and, if this Sheet is not yet available, for creating a commitment by the facility to acquire or prepare a Material Safety Data Sheet for such hazardous substance if such substance is received or produced at the facility, for tracking the movement and use of a hazardous substance at the facility, for maintaining and storing for at least one chemical process that occurs at the facility a process definition, including what mixtures, process by-products, waste by-products, chemical emissions and waste discharges are generated or consumed at each stage of such process, and for determining the amount of a hazardous substance stored at the facility at a given time; Human Resource Management data means for monitoring and recording exposure of each worker at the facility to specified hazardous substances, for determining when, if at all, a worker has received a maximum permissible exposure to any of these specified hazardous substances at the facility, for monitoring and recording reported work-related illnesses and injuries for one or more employees at the facility, and for monitoring and recording work-related training received and to be received by each worker at the facility; Hazardous Waste Management data means for monitoring and recording selected waste management information concerning the facility, including production, accumulation, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste, for constructing and recording a Waste Profile containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety, hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance produced at the facility, for monitoring and recording the changes, if any, in hazardous waste produced, based upon process modification, input material substitution, reformulation of an end product produced at the facility or modifications in inventory management implemented at the facility, for monitoring the length of time a hazardous waste has accumulated in a given waste container at the facility, for monitoring and recording the size, location, use, movement, treatment and disposal of a hazardous waste container at the facility, for creating a commitment, and recording completion of that commitment, to dispose of hazardous waste accumulated in a waste container when the time this waste has been accumulated in that container reaches a selected time interval, and for generating hazardous waste labels and Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests to be used with a container containing hazardous waste that is to be disposed of away from the facility; Hazardous Commitments Management data means for monitoring and recording hazardous substance compliance requirements, and the time requirements, if any, for such compliance, applicable to the facility, for advising the facility of safety inspections, examinations of safety equipment and equipment decontaminations to be performed periodically, and for monitoring creation of periodic hazardous substance reports for the facility; and a database means, connected to each of the five data means, for integrating these five data means, for identifying data that are common to at least one designated pair of data means, and for creating, storing and updating these common data so that such data can be accessed and used by each member of a pair of data means to perform tasks assigned to that data means, to facilitate exchange of information between at least one of the following pairs of data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Materials Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Waste Management data means; Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; and Hazardous Waste Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65)
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66. Apparatus for monitoring handling of hazardous substances at a facility to promote compliance with applicable laws governing such substances, the apparatus comprising:
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Hazardous Materials Index data means for constructing and recording a Chemical Profile for pure chemicals and mixtures thereof containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance used or produced at the facility for which a Material Safety Data Sheet is required, and for maintaining a chemical location table containing an inventory of hazardous substances, including amounts and concentrations thereof, that are present at a given time at each of a selected group of locations at a facility; Hazardous Materials Management data means for receiving and recording information on arrival of a hazardous substance at, and departure of a hazardous substance from, the facility, for determining whether a Material Safety Data Sheet exists for such substance and, if this Sheet is not yet available, for creating a commitment by the facility to acquire or prepare a Material Safety Data Sheet for such hazardous substance if such substance is received or produced at the facility, for tracking the movement and use of a hazardous substance at the facility, for maintaining and storing for at least one chemical process that occurs at the facility a process definition, including what mixtures, process by-products, waste by-products, chemical emissions and waste discharges are generated or consumed at each stage of such process, and for determining the amount of a hazardous substance stored at the facility at a given time; Hazardous Permit Management data means for monitoring and recording applications, approvals, renewals and expirations of regulatory agency permits allowing the facility to store, use, emit or discharge specified hazardous substances, for monitoring and recording facility chemical emissions and waste discharges and the results of detection and testing of specified hazardous substance emissions and discharges, for monitoring and recording variations between actual emissions and discharges and permitted emissions and discharges, and for monitoring and recording the results of source reduction measures, if any, implemented at the facility; Human Resource Management data means for monitoring and recording exposure of each worker at the facility to specified hazardous substances, for determining when, if at all, a worker has received a maximum permissible exposure to any of these specified hazardous substances at the facility, for monitoring and recording reported work-related illnesses and injuries for one or more employees at the facility, and for monitoring and recording work-related training received and to be received by each worker at the facility; Hazardous Commitments Management data means for monitoring and recording hazardous substance compliance requirements, and the time requirements, if any, for such compliance, applicable to the facility, for advising the facility of safety inspections, examinations of safety equipment and equipment decontaminations to be performed periodically, and for monitoring creation of periodic hazardous substance reports for the facility; and a database means, connected to each of the five data means, for integrating these five data means, for identifying data that are common to at least one designated pair of data means, and for creating, storing and updating these common data so that such data can be accessed and used by each member of a pair of data means to perform tasks assigned to that data means, to facilitate exchange of information between at least one of the following pairs of data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Materials Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Permit Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Permit Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Hazardous Permit Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; and Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69)
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70. Apparatus for monitoring handling of hazardous substances at a facility to promote compliance with applicable laws governing such substances, the apparatus comprising:
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Hazardous Materials Index data means for constructing and recording a Chemical Profile for pure chemicals and mixtures thereof containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance used or produced at the facility for which a Material Safety Data Sheet is required, and for maintaining a chemical location table containing an inventory of hazardous substances, including amounts and concentrations thereof, that are present at a given time at each of a selected group of locations at a facility; Hazardous Materials Management data means for receiving and recording information on arrival of a hazardous substance at, and departure of a hazardous substance from, the facility, for determining whether a Material Safety Data Sheet exists for such substance and, if this Sheet is not yet available, for creating a commitment by the facility to acquire or prepare a Material Safety Data Sheet for such hazardous substance if such substance is received or produced at the facility, for tracking the movement and use of a hazardous substance at the facility, for maintaining and storing for at least one chemical process that occurs at the facility a process definition, including what mixtures, process by-products, waste by-products, chemical emissions and waste discharges are generated or consumed at each stage of such process, and for determining the amount of a hazardous substance stored at the facility at a given time; Human Resource Management data means for monitoring and recording exposure of each worker at the facility to specified hazardous substances, for determining when, if at all, a worker has received a maximum permissible exposure to any of these specified hazardous substances at the facility, for monitoring and recording reported work-related illnesses and injuries for one or more employees at the facility, and for monitoring and recording work-related training received and to be received by each worker at the facility; Hazardous Commitments Management data means for monitoring and recording hazardous substance compliance requirements, and the time requirements, if any, for such compliance, applicable to the facility, for advising the facility of safety inspections, examinations of safety equipment and equipment decontaminations to be performed periodically, and for monitoring creation of periodic hazardous substance reports for the facility; and a database means, connected to each of these four data means, for integrating these four data means, for identifying data that are common to at least one designated pair of data means, and for creating, storing and updating these common data so that such data can be accessed and used by each member of a pair of data means to perform tasks assigned to that data means, to facilitate exchange of information between at least one of the following pairs of data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Materials Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Index data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Human Resource Management data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means; and Human Resource Management data means and Hazardous Commitment Management data means. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72)
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73. Apparatus for monitoring handling of hazardous substances at a facility to promote compliance with applicable laws governing such substances, the apparatus comprising:
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Hazardous Materials Index data means for constructing and recording a Chemical Profile for pure chemicals and mixtures thereof containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance used or produced at the facility for which a Material Safety Data Sheet is required, and for maintaining a chemical location table containing an inventory of hazardous substances, including amounts and concentrations thereof, that are present at a given time at each of a selected group of locations at a facility; Hazardous Materials Management data means for receiving and recording information on arrival of a hazardous substance at, and departure of a hazardous substance from, the facility, for determining whether a Material Safety Data Sheet exists for such substance and, if this Sheet is not yet available, for creating a commitment by the facility to acquire or prepare a Material Safety Data Sheet for such hazardous substance if such substance is received or produced at the facility, for tracking the movement and use of a hazardous substance at the facility, for maintaining and storing for at least one chemical process that occurs at the facility a process definition, including what mixtures, process by-products, waste by-products, chemical emissions and waste discharges are generated or consumed at each stage of such process, and for determining the amount of a hazardous substance stored at the facility at a given time; and at least one additional data means drawn from the class consisting of the following four data means; Hazardous Permit Management data means for monitoring and recording applications, approvals, renewals and expirations of regulatory agency permits allowing the facility to store, use, emit or discharge specified hazardous substances, for monitoring and recording facility chemical emissions and waste discharges and the results of detection and testing of specified hazardous substance emissions and discharges, for monitoring and recording variations between actual emissions and discharges and permitted emissions and discharges, and for monitoring and recording the results of source reduction measures, if any, implemented at the facility; Human Resource Management data means for monitoring and recording exposure of each worker at the facility to specified hazardous substances, for determining when, if at all, a worker has received a maximum permissible exposure to any of these specified hazardous substances at the facility, for monitoring and recording reported work-related illnesses and injuries for one or more employees at the facility, and for monitoring and recording work-related training received and to be received by each worker at the facility; Hazardous Waste Management data means for monitoring and recording selected waste management information concerning the facility, including production, accumulation, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste, for constructing and recording a Waste Profile containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance produced at the facility, for monitoring and recording the changes, if any, in hazardous waste produced, based upon process modification, input material substitution, reformulation of an end product produced at the facility or modifications in inventory management implemented at the facility, for monitoring the length of time a hazardous waste has accumulated in a given waste container at the facility, for monitoring and recording the size, location, use, movement, treatment and disposal of a hazardous waste container at the facility, for creating a commitment, and recording completion of that commitment, to dispose of hazardous waste accumulated in a waste container when the time this waste has been accumulated in that container reaches a selected time interval, and for generating hazardous waste labels and Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests to be used with a container containing hazardous waste that is to be disposed of away from the facility; and Hazardous Commitments Management data means for monitoring and recording hazardous substance compliance requirements, and the time requirements, if any, for such compliance, applicable to the facility, for advising the facility of safety inspections, examinations of safety equipment and equipment decontaminations to be performed periodically, and for monitoring creation of periodic hazardous substance reports for the facility; and a database mean, connected to each of the three data means, for integrating these three data means, for identifying data that are common to at least one designated pair of functional data means, and for creating, storing and updating these common data so that such data can be accessed and used by each member of a pair of data means to perform tasks assigned to that data means, to facilitate exchange of information between at least two of these three data mean.
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74. Apparatus for monitoring handling of hazardous substances at a facility to promote compliance with applicable laws governing such substances, the apparatus comprising:
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Hazardous Materials Index data means for constructing and recording a Chemical Profile for pure chemicals and mixtures thereof containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance used or produced at the facility for which a Material Safety Data Sheet is required, and for maintaining a chemical location table containing an inventory of hazardous substances, including amounts and concentrations thereof, that are present at a given time at each of a selected group of locations at a facility; at least one additional data means drawn from the class consisting of the following five data means; Hazardous Materials Management data means for receiving and recording information on arrival of a hazardous substance at, and departure of a hazardous substance from, the facility, for determining whether a Material Safety Data Sheet exists for such substance and, if this Sheet is not yet available, for creating a commitment by the facility to acquire or prepare a Material Safety Data Sheet for such hazardous substance if such substance is received or produced at the facility, for tracking the movement and use of a hazardous substance at the facility, for maintaining and storing for at least one chemical process that occurs at the facility a process definition, including what mixtures, process by-products, waste by-products, chemical emissions and waste discharges are generated or consumed at each stage of such process, and for determining the amount of a hazardous substance stored at the facility at a given time; Hazardous Permit Management data means for monitoring and recording applications, approvals, renewals and expirations of regulatory agency permits allowing the facility to store, use, emit or discharge specified hazardous substances;
for monitoring and recording facility chemical emissions and waste discharges and the results of detection and testing of specified hazardous substance emissions and discharges, for monitoring and recording variations between actual emissions and discharges and permitted emissions and discharges, and for monitoring and recording the results of source reduction measures, if any, implemented at the facility;Human Resource Management data means for monitoring and recording exposure of each worker at the facility to specified hazardous substances, for determining when, if at all, a worker has received a maximum permissible exposure to any of these specified hazardous substances at the facility, for monitoring and recording reported work-related illnesses and injures for one or more employees at the facility, and for monitoring and recording work-related training received and to be received by each worker at the facility; Hazardous Waste Management data means for monitoring and recording selected waste management information concerning the facility, including production, accumulation, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste, for constructing and recording a Waste Profile containing information on physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, handling procedures, and emergency response procedures, for a hazardous substance produced at the facility, for monitoring and recording the changes, if any, in hazardous waste produced, based upon process modification, input material substitution, reformulation of an end product produced at the facility or modifications in inventory management implemented at the facility, for monitoring the length of time a hazardous waste has accumulated in a given waste container at the facility, for monitoring and recording the size, location, use, movement, treatment and disposal of a hazardous waste container at the facility, for creating a commitment, and recording completion of that commitment, to dispose of hazardous waste accumulated in a waste container when the time this waste has been accumulated in that container reaches a selected time interval, and for generating hazardous waste labels and Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests to be used with a container containing hazardous waste that is to be disposed of away from the facility; and Hazardous Commitments Management data means for monitoring and recording hazardous substance compliance requirements, and the time requirements, if any, for such compliance, applicable to the facility, for advising the facility of safety inspections, examinations of safety equipment and equipment decontaminations to be performed periodically, and for monitoring creation of periodic hazardous substance reports for the facility; and a database means, connected to at least two data means, for integrating these two data means, for identifying data that are common to at least one designated pair of functional data means, and for creating, storing and updating these common data so that such data can be accessed and used by each member of a pair of data means to perform tasks assigned to that data means, to facilitate exchange of information between these two data means.
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Current AssigneeLindsay D. Lufkin, Robert S. Sturgeon
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Original AssigneeAlternative Systems, Inc.
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InventorsGordon, Emery J., Connors, Matthew D., Sturgeon, Douglas H., Sziklai, Anthony T.
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Primary Examiner(s)Hayes, Gail O.
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Assistant Examiner(s)Huntley, David
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Application NumberUS07/844,225Time in Patent Office2,010 DaysField of Search364/400, 364/401, 364/403, 364/406, 364/468US Class Current705/28CPC Class CodesG06F 2219/10 Environmental application, ...G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock manageme...G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided...Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting sys...
