Emergency Preparedness in Schools: Beyond Active Shooter and Fire Drills
Schools devote significant attention to fire drills, lockdowns, and active shooter response. While these plans are critical, they represent only part of the emergencies a school may face. A chemical spill, gas leak, personal injury, severe storm, or power failure may...
Hazard Communication and Chemical Hygiene Plans in CT Schools: Do You Need Both?
Science classrooms are not the only places where chemicals are used in schools. Custodians work with cleaning products and disinfectants. Facilities employees may use paints, solvents, adhesives, fuels, and water treatment chemicals. Art departments may store glazes,...
Machine Guarding and Lockout/Tagout in Schools
Schools are not usually thought of as industrial workplaces, but many contain the same equipment and hazardous energy sources found in manufacturing facilities. Wood and metal shops have table saws, drill presses, lathes, sanders, grinders, and milling machines....
Electrical Safety in Schools: Common Hazards Hiding in Plain Sight
Electrical hazards in schools rarely look dramatic. More often, they look ordinary: an extension cord stretched across the floor, an overloaded power strip beneath a teacher’s desk, a filing cabinet placed in front of an electrical panel, or a damaged cord repaired...
Connecticut Schools Face Increased EHS Compliance Oversight: Is Yours Ready?
When most people think of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance, they picture manufacturing plants, warehouses, or construction sites. However, schools are workplaces too, with a responsibility to provide a safe environment for students, staff, and...
Industrial Athletes: The Importance of Stretch and Flex
Think about some of the athletes that you have seen throughout your life. The one thing that they all have in common is that they stretch and flex before workouts, practice, and competitions. The work that we do is just as physical as what athletes face, and it is...
What It’s Like Working as an Intern at Walden
In the engineering world, co-ops, research, and internships are usually an integral part of the learning process for many aspiring engineers. I myself am one of those people — through Walden, I have been very fortunate to be an intern, and have learned a lot about the...
Apply for Hudson River Estuary Program Grant Funding!
An exciting announcement from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has surfaced, revealing brand-new funding available through two types of Requests for Applications (RFAs), whose total comes to $1 million. This act is part of the goals...
Do Your Employees Know What to Do During an Emergency?
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) When someone has a heart attack or other catastrophic injury that interrupts their breathing and heart function, CPR can save their life, but only if someone else knows how perform it....
Walden Conducts CLCPA and LL97 Talk for GNYADA Members
On October 5, 2023 at 11:00 AM, Walden’s President, Joseph Heaney III, P.E. conducted a webinar for members of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (GNYADA). In his presentation, Heaney spoke about New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community...