The Isosceles Group recently assisted one of its global manufacturing clients with direct outsourcing ESH management support for its global headquarters and manufacturing facility’s annual ISO 14,001 audit.  The client, a leading manufacturer of sensors and control devices for automotive and aerospace applications, is required by many of its customers to maintain comprehensive environmental management programs and have its main operations certified in ISO 14,001, among other standards.  The US global headquarters and manufacturing operations, having been in operation for more than several decades, provides a unique challenge for its location and extensive and varied operations.  Besides manufacturing operations, the facility also carries out many research and development projects and failure analysis programs that utilize numerous chemicals, and create a variety of environmental aspects.  The ever-changing nature of the R&D and failure analysis creates a complicated “change management” environment that is subject to continual process improvement.
 
The Isosceles Group’s outsourced ESH team worked closely with site business unit managers and key staff to ensure that new R&D projects and ever-changing customer requests were factored into the environmental management system’s process of tracking changes and recording potential new aspects and impacts.  The myriad of constantly changing processes and associated aspects led the combined team to evaluate ways to create improvements year over year that were achievable and could produce cost-savings.
 
By developing master site logs, stored in cloud-based systems accessible from any computer, allowed for more rapid updating of changes, assessment of impacts, and follow-up inspections to ensure compliance.  Simplification of tracking from many different tracking forms to a single system led to less confusion and better documentation.  The results of the latest audit found no non-compliances; combined with these improvements in system management, the site has been able to remain Audit Non-Compliance free for 5 years.

Boston, MA- The Isosceles Group, an environmental health and safety management firm, is pleased to welcome Brianna McHugh to the firm. 
 
Brianna is a recent college graduate and has worked on a number of different research projects pertaining to both the environment and to sustainability over the course of her academic career. Prior to joining The Isosceles Group, Brianna worked as both a Facilities and a Lab Support intern at a biopharmaceutical company where she was responsible for assisting with medical waste removal, maintaining regulatory compliance at hazardous waste satellite areas, and updating the Chemical MSDS catalog, among other duties. In addition, Brianna was also responsible for assisting with the daily lab operations.
 
As a Junior Environmental, Health and Safety Associate at The Isosceles Group, Brianna will be responsible for researching environmental, health, and safety (EHS) laws and regulations, writing regulatory update articles for the Global Newsletter and the Quarterly Report, and updating and editing EHS protocols.
 
Brianna has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Conservation and Sustainability from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. She can be reached at bmchugh@theisogroup.com or by phone at (617) 330-2800.

Boston, MA – The Isosceles Group, an environmental health and safety management firm, is pleased to welcome Haley McClory to the firm.

Haley began her professional life as a researcher, and was given the opportunity to work on relevant projects affecting the world. Her research projects utilized the study of metabolomics, small molecule drug design, and nano-scale drug delivery systems to address treatment and diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease, Breast Cancer, AIDS, and Alzheimer’s disease. Her research efforts, along with those of her colleagues, culminated in the paper, “Design of novel di-substituted Hydroxy Ureas as inhibitors of Ribonucleotide Reductase,” which addressed a common form of AIDS treatment and its derivatives.

While participating in an International Technology Transfer Institute Clinic, Haley co-authored the paper “Horses as Sources of Proprietary Information: Commercialization, Conservation and Compensation.” This paper addressed relevant international treaties on genetic resources and provided additional support for the hypothesis that developing countries can utilize their rare genetic resources to build capacity within their country.

As a Legal Intern at The Isosceles Group, Haley will be responsible for researching environmental, health, and safety (EHS) laws and regulatory revisions, writing regulatory update articles for the Quarterly Report and the Global Newsletter, and revising EHS protocols.

Haley has a B.S. in Biochemistry and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, with concentrations in Writing and Business, from Niagara University. She recently received a J.D. from New Hampshire School of Law, where she earned a Certificate in Intellectual Property for her work with trademarks and patents. This coming fall, Haley will be returning to the classroom to pursue a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of New York at Buffalo. She would like it to be noted that, despite what it might look like, she is not collecting degrees.

Boston, MA- The Isosceles Group, an environmental health and safety management firm, is pleased to welcome Sara Fam to the firm. An environmental, health, and safety scientist, Sara has worked for both the chemical and the paper mill industries.
 
Over the course of her career, Sara has worked on a variety of environmental, health, and safety projects as well as important report submittals for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including the Tier II Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory Report. Her work ensured regulatory compliance with federal, state and local agencies and reduced process safety risk.
 
As a Junior Environmental, Health and Safety Associate at The Isosceles Group, Sara will be responsible for researching environmental, health, and safety (EHS) laws and regulatory revisions, writing and editing regulatory update articles for the Quarterly Report and the Global Newsletter, revising EHS protocols, and assisting in consulting work for clients.
 
Sara has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health Science and a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Health Science (Industrial Hygiene) with a minor in Spanish from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Prior to joining The Isosceles Group, Sara worked as an EHS Engineer at a chemical manufacturing plant, where she served as an EHS subject matter expert. In addition, Sara is certified in OSHA 10-hr Construction Safety and Health training course, OSHA 30-hr General Industry Safety and Health training course, and Asbestos Contractor/Supervisor 40-hr Course.
 
Ms. Fam is from Cairo, Egypt and is fluent in speaking Arabic. She also studied Spanish abroad in Alicante, Spain for 5 months. She can be reached at sfam@theisogroup.com or by phone at (617) 330-2800.

Boston, MA – Ellen Pinkos Cobb, Senior Regulatory & Legal Analyst in The Isosceles Group's Boston office, has been named a founding fellow of the U.S. Academy on Workplace Bullying, Mobbing and Abuse. The Academy is a joint initiative between the Workplace Bullying Institute and the New Workplace Institute. It supports and promotes the multidisciplinary work of leading and emerging educators, researchers, practitioners, writers and advocates who are dedicated to understanding, preventing, stopping, and responding to workplace bullying and related forms of interpersonal mistreatment.

"For over a year, we've been contemplating how to bring together an American network of leading and emerging experts on workplace bullying and related topics. The Academy is our conduit for doing so," says David Yamada, Suffolk University law professor and director of the New Workplace Institute. "We look forward to highlighting the good works of these incredible people."