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Brenda Mahedy

Mobile Computing Improving EH&S Management

Cartoons
Grantland offers a series of cartoons on a variety of business-related topics, including safety and the environment. These are essentially comic strips of the kind normally seen in the newspaper comics section. But they are designed to promote good work practices.

The safety cartoons are organized into nine topics: general safety, electrical safety, fire safety, lifting safety, office safety, repetitive stress, slipping and tripping, ergonomics, and miscellaneous. The environment cartoons are organized into four topics: recycling, conservation, carpooling, and miscellaneous. Grantland will modify the text to suit your particular needs.

C-Maps
The US EPA Clean Air Markets Program maintains a web site to present maps and data developed using the Clean Air Mapping and Analysis Program (C-Maps). C-Maps explores the effectiveness of the Nation’s acid rain program by examining the geographic distribution of air emissions data and related environmental indicators.

The web site includes a series of maps for the contiguous 48 states depicting the current status and trends in:

      • Emissions of chemicals associated with acid rain
      • Concentrations of these chemicals in the ambient air
      • Deposition of these chemicals in precipitation
      • Sensitive environmental receptors, such as surface water resources, forests, and other ecologically sensitive regions.

Visitors can also access the data sets used to develop these maps for use in other GIS or spreadsheet applications.

For more information, visit www.epa.gov or telephone the acid rain hotline at (202) 564-9620.

product news: EH&S Compliance

PPM and Labelmaster
Creative Business Solutions, Inc. has combined its PPM mobile audit technologies with Labelmaster’s regulatory information products to provide audit software, CFR audit standards, and integrated links to REG-Trieve for the Safety Manager – all designed for mobile use on a Palm PDA. According to Creative Business Solutions, users can now download OSHA regulations to the Palm PDA to automatically integrate with their CFR audit questions in PPM.

For more information, telephone Creative Business Solutions, Inc. at (866) 737-7574 (toll free) or (709) 737-892. For more information about Labelmaster, visit www.labelmaster.com.