I was talking with a plant leader recently. Good operation. No major issues. At one point, he mentioned that most EHS items run through one person. So I asked, what happens when that person is out? There was a pause. Not a long one. Just enough. You could tell. How much of your EHS program depends on one or two people being available? If that answer isn’t clear, it’s probably worth a closer look.

I’m seeing a lot of manufacturing EHS job postings across New Jersey. The postings describe the role in detail, and these are roles I’ve seen posted before. It reflects how EHS is expected to function. At high-performing sites, EHS is part of running the operation. It's built into how expectations are set, how supervisors run their areas, and how decisions get made day to day, with operations accountable and EHS coaching and supporting. At Baron, we work with organizations bu

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My stance for EHS Excellence: Any business model that includes a Site EHS Lead is OUTDATED. Yes Sir, Yes Ma'am, I'll hold my ground on this. Here it is rephrased: A Site EHS Lead as the foundation of a program? That model is clearly outdated. EHS excellence has no single point of failure. It is an EHS-driven culture, coached by a dedicated team rather than a chain of site and corporate EHS roles. I really like that prior sentence. It calls into question the value derived from

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Attention! Police Officer BRIAN LONG here, reporting live, from the left side of the photo! Here’s our team on Friday: Thumbs up, in costume, and aligned within our team-based EHS outsourcing model. This is the opposite of what we see at so many New Jersey pharma and manufacturing sites still clinging to the outdated EHS model. Full-time EHS staff, yet consultants are still called in to get the difficult work done. It’s unfathomable, and it’s more common than people want to a

New Jersey pharma professionals: Join our team transforming the newest EHS model! In this video clip, team members (Dean Koncsol, Plinio Storck, Thomas Perez, and Cléverson Storck Gonçalves) share why Baron works: • Real variety • Working with entire site personnel • Culture change you can feel • Integration as part of the team Do you conduct risk assessments, JSAs, API assessments and want to make an impact throughout NJ? DM or email Anne Fernicola to receive a PDF with "A D

Join us and be a part of our EHS success. We created a new Pharma EHS business model that continues to grow: a subscription-based, outsourced EHS team. For our hiring efforts, we’re looking for the qualities our clients value most: the ability to keep pace with manufacturing demands, deliver fast assessments for APIs (including OEB banding), drive a culture of getting things done, and show value and measurable results. Experience with API assessments a must. Experience with E

Most General Managers will tell you the same thing: EHS feels like a never-ending hassle. First comes the struggle to hire and keep the right EHS Manager. Then comes the patchwork of consultants, reports, audits… and it never stops. Baron used to add to that noise, offering dozens of one-off projects like every other EHS consultant. But that approach doesn’t solve the big picture. It’s not sustainable. So we changed the model. Today, it’s simple: a fixed-price, team-based sol

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Wouldn’t it be nice if your EHS program ran as smoothly -- AND AS CONFIDENTLY -- as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving? No overcorrecting. No last second scrambling. Just steady progress with the system handling the complexity behind the scenes. While the car handled the road, I recorded this quick story: - One client had a single bad formula in their RPPR spreadsheet. - We caught it. We aligned the NOx and nitric acid usage as the permit required. - We likely cut a week-long DEP audi

Nine minutes in, the Teams meeting went silent. The EHS lead of a $1 billion coatings maker thanked us—then hung up when she heard we “only” cover New Jersey, New York, and Eastern PA. Her edict? “One national firm for every North American site.” This concept may look flawless in a PowerPoint. But on the production floor it often means parachute consultants, weeks between visits, and leaves site managers without the EHS support they need. We took a different road: regiona

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