Consulting Services
Beyond Compliance consulting provides clients with a variety of EHS services that enhance performance and management while minimizing risk. We are a recognized leader in EHS compliance assessment services and EHS management systems development and have provided these services to a wide range of industry sectors.
Regulatory and Technical Strength
Our team possess detailed knowledge of EHS regulatory programs and have demonstrated their ability to evaluate complex scenarios in the field. Our familiarity with a broad range of industries allows our project team to “hit the ground running.”
Substantial technical expertise in conducting multi-media EHS compliance audits
Our team performed nearly 500 EHS compliance audits throughout the country and overseas. These audits evaluated EHS compliance for most industry sectors including manufacturing, aerospace, semiconductor, biopharma, utilities, and government. Our familiarity with a great number of industries allows our project team to “hit the ground running.”
EHS compliance training
Our team has regularly taught EHS compliance training, auditing, and regulatory update courses for scores of facilities and universities.
Thought Leadership
Our principal, Gary Lucks JD CPEA has over 35 years of EHS experience and has written extensively on environmental law and policy as described further below. Mr. Lucks coauthored a comprehensive reference book on environmental law entitled California Environmental Law and Policy: A Practical Guide, published by Solano Press. He also wrote the chapter on environmental auditing found in the California Environmental Law and Land Use Practice treatise for Matthew Bender/LexisNexis. Finally, for the past 25 years, he has authored the lead article on environmental law and policy for the California Environmental Law Reporter.
Compliance Services
EHS Compliance Audits
Environmental compliance audits often reveal “hidden” regulatory and other liabilities within facilities and are designed to identify regulatory gaps that require corrective action. Beyond Compliance conducted nearly 500 multi-media (air quality, hazardous waste and materials, water quality, storm water, and health and safety) EHS compliance audits of all major industry sectors throughout the United States and overseas.
EMS Conformity Audits
Environmental Management System (EMS) conformity audits evaluate the degree to which an organization’s EMS is aligned with the ISO 14001 standard. We have developed EMSs for scores of facilities and completed a number of EMS conformity audits as well.
Legal Registries
Leading edge companies understand the critical importance of building and maintaining tools that manage EHS compliance risk. An Environmental Legal register is a risk management tool that, in its absence is often a root cause for environmental noncompliance. It can also be used to show regulatory agencies that the facility operates in good faith. A Legal Registry Identifies all potentially applicable environmental (federal, state, regional, local, and DOE) requirements that are "applicable" to current and prospective operations and activities.
Legislative and Regulatory Analysis
What new environmental laws will impact your business and how will your business stay on top of new regulatory developments? Beyond Compliance staff has extensive experience tracking and analyzing new EHS laws and regulations and is uniquely qualified to advise on legislative implications and strategies to comply.
Compliance Management Systems (CMS) and Compliance Optimization
Beyond Compliance developed CMPs for organizations across the country. Like an EMS, a compliance focused management system systematically organizes EHS programs to better manage compliance. CMSs can take the form of a comprehensive manual or a web-enabled enterprise framework that incorporates applicable regulatory requirements governing facility operations and translates them into standard operating procedures assigning roles, responsibilities, compliance calendars, and many other tools to enhance compliance. Beyond Compliance has worked with several organizations to facilitate “beyond compliance” strategies including a program that helped remove a company from probation with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Permitting
Beyond Compliance helps numerous clients from diverse industries navigate applicable EHS permits and approvals and assists them with regulatory agency interface. Beyond Compliance has a proven track record having permitted hundreds conventional projects and electric charging stations throughout California and the western states.
Environmental Plans
Beyond Compliance staff have extensive experience developing SB 14 hazardous waste pollution prevention plans, SPCC (spill prevention control and countermeasure) plans, integrated contingency plans, storm water plans, and hazardous materials business plans.
Environmental & Sustainability Training
We offer customizable facility or industry-specific environmental training for over a dozen EHS programs ranging from hazardous waste and hazardous materials management, air quality and climate, storm water, Spill Prevention & Countermeasure Control (SPCC), environmental legislative/regulatory updates, compliance audits, EMS, and sustainability.
Sustainability Services
Green Infrastructure Permitting
With over 50 years of highly relevant permitting expertise, Beyond Compliance has a proven track record having permitted hundreds of electric charging stations, cell towers (e.g., Electrify America, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile) throughout California and the western states. We have deep agency experience and relationships with planning agencies and has “behind-the-counter” depth and experience.
Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
EMSs provide a more comprehensive framework than a CMS. Beyond Compliance provides assistance with any level of EMS (e.g. auditing, training, implementation), from the very first steps, through the process to optimization and continuous improvement. Beyond Compliance has extensive experience designing and implementing scores of environmental management systems (EMSs) pursuant to ISO 14001. The EMS range from emphasizing environmental compliance and to both compliance and sustainability.
Sustainability Strategies
Beyond Compliance sustainability experts design and deliver workshops on sustainability for industrial and facility managers about the connection with global issues of climate change and natural resource depletion and their work at the plant and to generate ideas and actions in resource efficiency and pollution prevention. In previous training sessions, participants have identified opportunities for improvement and action plans, many of them potentially yielding significant cost savings of several hundred thousand dollars.
Corporate Social Responsibility strategy and implementation
Beyond Compliance has facilitated several sustainability strategies with the C-Suite crafting 5- and 10-year sustainability road maps.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
CSR is becoming an imperative in corporate structure. We navigate the variety of standards including SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board), the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) and promote those CSR principles and ideas in a way that you can apply to your organization. We also provide advice on managing the risk of “greenwashing” and helping organizations that unintentionally make false and misleading “green claims” in violation of the Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guide rules.
Pollution Prevention (P2)
The most effective way to manage pollution is to prevent it at its source. Beyond Compliance assists in finding technical, process and management solutions to increase resource efficiency to reduce pollution and wasted inputs upstream. Eco-audits typically provide an assessment of missed environmental opportunities to promote energy and resource efficiencies.
Other Resources
Through partnerships and affiliations, Beyond Compliance offers assistance in the following areas:
Various software packages supporting EMS/CMS, CSR benchmarking and performance
Environmental Impact Analysis to comply with CEQA