ER Workplace Improvements

   First Step: Remember that people can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys.  There is no business quite like the emergency response business. When you go to work, your life, the lives of your fellow citizens and your fellow workers are literally at...

Job of the Week – Oct. 15, 2020

October 15, 2020: St. Charles Fire Department is at spill site immediately. Fifty gallons of oil had leaked out of a freight-shipping company truck and onto a parking lot at an apartment complex in St. Charles, Illinois. The date was October 15, 2020, and the time was...

Job of the Week – Oct. 5, 2020

Versatility. If part of your business requires that you clean up spills involving hazardous and/or non-hazardous waste, it pays to have versatile employees. At 5:54 p.m., October 5, HazChem Environmental Corporation (Hazchem.com) received an emergency spill phone...

Job of the Week – Sept. 19, 2020

Resin is not something to be trifled with. It is highly flammable which of course means it can be a potential threat to property and the life of a human being. On Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, at 2:15 a.m., HazChem Environmental received an emergency phone call regarding...

Job of the Week – Sept. 8, 2020

Hydraulic oil has spilled at a port of a top freight transportation company. Twelve gallons of hydraulic oil had spilled out of a truck and onto the ground at a Chicagoland suburban port of a large transportation company. The date was September 8, 2020. The time was...