Rules for Participation These rules are designed to create a forum where professionals can discuss topics related to worker health and safety, hazardous materials transportation, emergency response, and environmental protection in a respectful and informative way in order to build a sense of trust and community. 1. Use your full name. This creates a more professional and respectful environment, and it also helps to ensure that everyone is accountable for their words and actions. 2. No political discussion. This forum is intended to explore topics related to to protecting workers, the public, and the environment we all live in. Political discussions can be divisive and easily diverge from the purpose of the site, so they are not welcome in this forum. 3. Keep to the subject matter and reference credible sources. This forum is a place for professionals to share their knowledge and expertise. When posting or commenting, please be sure to stay on topic and to reference credible sources to support your claims so everyone benefits. 4. Be respectful of others. In discussion we can be critical of the position of others, but does not include making personal attacks, name-calling, and other forms of harassment. 5. Do not post any confidential or proprietary information. 6. Do not post any spam or advertising. 7. Human induced climate change is a scientific fact and the single greatest challenge for our times. This makes any position contesting this reality unwelcome. This forum is a place for professionals to share information and ideas about how to protect and sustain the environment for the benefit of all. Climate change is a real and serious threat, and it is important for professionals in these fields to be able to discuss it openly and honestly. If this rule is contray to your views there are many other venues on which you can share them with other like-minded individuals. Enforcement If you see a post or comment that violates the rules, please report it to the forum moderators. Forum moderators will enforce these rules by deleting posts and comments that violate them. Moderators may also issue warnings or bans to users who repeatedly violate the rules.

Hello, I'm Robert Wasley, founder of The Industrial Safety & Hazmat Training Group, LLC, and publisher of the Everything EHST website. I've been actively involved in EHS, hazmat transport, and emergency response since 1998. After founding The Industrial Safety & Hazmat Training Group, LLC in 2000 to provide training and consulting services in California, I launched Everything EHST in 2020 as a place for professionals, companies, and other interested parties to connect, share information, and collaborate. My goal for this forum is to bring together people working in these fields so we can network, learn from each other, and move our industries forward. With your participation, we can share ideas, best practices, and new technologies to improve workplace safety, environmental protection, hazmat transportation, and emergency response. I welcome your feedback on how we can make this forum valuable. What topics should we cover? What conversations would be most meaningful to you? How can we improve the experience? Your suggestions will help shape this community. Thank you for being part of the Everything EHST forum. I look forward to connecting and collaborating!