General Description & Background
The Online Hazardous Materials Inventory Project (Online Database) is designed to meet two major objectives:
- To help business and industry prepare and submit state and locally required Hazardous Materials Inventory Statements.
- To help business and industry determine building occupancy classifications for new construction and tenant improvement projects based on the hazardous materials to be used or stored in the project site.
There are also a number of secondary benefits provided by the Online Database:
- Facilitates the review and approval process by the local agency because of the use of a standardized database of chemical reporting information.
- Allows business and industry to electronically submit their documents to the local agency
- Facilitates future revisions to Hazardous Materials Business Plans Inventory Statements
- Improves the availability of information for use by emergency response personnel before and during an incident.
- Allows business and industry the option to submit information electronically via an email attachment to their local agency, or posting of information on a secure website.
Background
Representatives from Santa Clara County Fire Chief's Hazardous Materials Subcommittee, Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health, and two industry associations, the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, and Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce Environmental Health and Safety Forum, jointly began the development of this project in September 1999.
In April 2000, Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health agreed to provide $50,000 for this project. Bids were solicited in May and a contractor was selected in September. The contract was signed in January 2001 with Arsenault Legg, Inc., of Davis, California.
The Consultant
EcoInteractive,
Inc specializes in providing advanced data management
solutions to the environmental industry, and developing systems
that provide multiple organizations with an opportunity to
share information. ALI uses advanced systems and database
technologies to provide long-term, efficient and cost-effective
solutions to meet clients' data management needs. The management
team has in-depth experience in addressing the specialized
needs of environmental agencies, laboratories, regulated industries,
and Architect-Engineering firms. They assist clients in re-engineering
and streamlining existing data management systems by designing
intelligent systems to facilitate the seamless transfer of
electronic data between various entities.
More Information
If you would like more information regarding this project, please contact the website coordinator.
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