his is the first instalment of my blog series on the health, safety, and environmental (HSE) regulatory landscape across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provides an overview of the GCC, key HSE challenges across the GCC, common findings from HSE regulatory compliance audits conducted across the region and difficulties facing companies operating across the GCC in complying with HSE regulations.
Category Archives: Environment
Artificial Intelligence in HSE Regulatory Compliance Monitoring (or How to Write a Blog Post in Eight Seconds).
In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent across a wide range of industries. One area where AI is having a significant impact is in the field of health, safety, and environment (HSE) regulatory compliance monitoring. With the help of AI, HSE professionals can better monitor and manage compliance with […]
Site Remediation: Part 1- The Basics
In this series of articles, we explain some basic remediation terminology and different approaches as well as offer a response to the common question of remediation costing. This information will be useful to those who are looking for preliminary and “ballpark” estimates for timelines and site cleanup costs. For a consultant who specializes in site […]
“I Don’t Give a **** If You Don’t Believe in Climate Change…”
Paris Agreement, climate change, and greenhouse gasses – do you understand what these terms really mean? Do you understand that decisions we make today will have consequences far into the future? While climate change may seemingly have no apparent consequence to the day-today activities of most HSE professionals, I firmly believe that each and every […]
Out-of-Site, Out-of-Mind – Leaks from Buried Concrete Structures
In my last blog post I discussed the issue of vapor instruction into buildings from subsurface sources, namely contaminated underlying soils and groundwater. In the article, I want to go into a bit more detail on one of the more common sources of site soil and groundwater contamination – that of leaks from underground structures […]