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Environmental Health and Safety Council

AIM’s Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Council is a group comprised of 1,100-plus AIM members focused on EHS legislative and regulatory issues affecting businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  The group assists AIM in developing its pro-business legislative agenda and works to defeat legislation offered by others that would be harmful to the business climate, costly to the businesses located here or complicated to comply with or administer.  The group also forms ad hoc task forces to advise agencies, such as the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and others on newly proposed laws or the implementation of existing ones.

Members
The EHS Council is comprised of EHS managers, attorneys and most of the major EHS consultants in Massachusetts.

Format
While there are no regularly scheduled meetings, seminars are held on an approximate monthly basis to hear representatives from agencies discuss new or proposed regulations or to network.  The Council also keeps in touch through monthly emails from AIM highlighting some of the pressing news related to compliance.

Issues
On the legislative side, members of the EHS Council have testified or submitted comment letters opposing legislation that would have made doing business in Massachusetts much costlier than other states, putting Massachusetts business at a competitive disadvantage.  This includes opposing nonscientific-based legislation that would have phased out or banned chemicals used in the production of finished goods.

On the regulatory side, members of the Council have participated by public comments related to new air, hazardous waste and site cleanup regulations as well as by serving on advisory committees for expanded electronic filing of permits and streamlining of existing permitting.  AIM works closely with the DEP to make sure proposed regulations are scientifically based and implemented in a fair way and do not place Massachusetts industries in a non-competitive environment.

AIM Council Staff
Robert A. Rio, Esq. staffs the EHS Council and has been with AIM since 1997.  Prior to joining AIM, Bob served as an environmental manager at various industrial facilities and has experience working for the DEP.

Join
You must be a member of AIM to join the EHS Council.  If you are an AIM member and would like to join the EHS Council, register now by adding Environment to your Member Interests.  If you are not yet a member, join AIM

Items of Interest

  eDEP Source Registration Letter - Minor Sources

  eDEP Source Registration Letter - Major Sources