/ Environment, health and safety

The compliance register that shows its work.

Most registers are a spreadsheet somebody inherited. Ours starts from your facility's actual profile, decides which regulations reach your address, and records the exact facts behind every decision — so you can reproduce it years later in front of someone who asks.

FROM THE INTAKE 14,000 lb Ammonia, anhydrous 5. Chemicals!K5 FROM THE ADDRESS Bexar County, TX 6 jurisdictions in force OSHA · TCEQ · SAFD THE RULE THAT REACHES YOU chemical.onhand_max_kg ≥ 4,535.92 kg (10,000 lb) APPLIES Process Safety Management 29 CFR 1910.119 PROGRAM PSM-TX-SAN 6 sections, each traced to a rule SCHEDULED WORK Weekly no more than 7 days between EVIDENCE 3 years retention fixed at capture
One fact, one address, one rule — and everything downstream still points back at cell K5.
/ The problem

Nobody can tell you why the register says what it says.

A compliance register is usually a list somebody built once, from memory and a competitor's template, and has been editing ever since. It cannot answer the two questions that matter under scrutiny: why is this on the list, and what changed when the plant did.

A register today

  • A row says “Hazardous Waste Management — applies”. Nobody remembers why.
  • You add a solvent, and nothing recalculates.
  • Half the rows are national boilerplate your county does not enforce and your air district does.
  • The written programs are a template with your address pasted in.
  • Inspection records live in a binder, a phone, and three inboxes.

A register that shows its work

  • Every verdict records the facts it read and the cell they came from.
  • Add a hazard and only the rules that fact can reach are re-decided.
  • Rules are scoped to the agencies that actually reach your address.
  • Programs are written from your own chemicals, equipment and processes.
  • Inspections are performed on a phone and land in the record with photos.
/ How it works

Four steps, and the fourth is the one people skip.

01

You describe the facility once

A structured intake covering the site, its chemicals, equipment, waste streams, processes, people and the permits you already hold. Thirty-five screening questions decide which of the fifteen sections you actually have to complete.

In practiceQuantities are the maximum you could hold at one time, not today's shelf count — thresholds are written on the maximum. The address is exact, because it decides your county, air district, fire authority and sewer authority.
02

The rules that reach your address are decided

Each requirement carries a predicate over a controlled vocabulary of facts. Rules are scoped to the jurisdictions in force at your site, and the agency you actually file with is resolved separately from the statute.

Why the address mattersOne California statute, two different filings: a Menlo Park laboratory files its hazardous materials business plan with San Mateo County; a Fremont refinery files the same statute with Alameda County.
03

Programs, permits and a calendar come out of it

Written programs assembled from your own inventory and equipment, a permit register reconciled against what you already hold, and a schedule of recurring work with the right owner, the right cadence and the retention period the regulation sets.

A cadence that binds“Weekly” in RCRA is not a calendar week; it is no more than seven days between inspections. The schedule enforces the ceiling, not the convenience.
04

The work gets done, and the evidence comes back

Inspections run on a phone against a checklist written from the regulation, with a photo per line. A failed line cannot be closed without a photograph and a named corrective action. All of it files itself against the requirement it answers.

What gets keptRetention is fixed at capture from the requirement's own period — thirty years for an exposure record, three for a waste inspection log — never at the point somebody decides to clear out a folder.
/ What it looks like

Four surfaces, one record underneath.

Everything below is the real thing, at the size it appears on a phone in a plant room.

A verdict, and the fact behind it
E-06 RCRA generator standards Applies
O-15 Injury and illness logs Does not apply
E-04 Toxics Release Inventory Undecided
A week of scheduled work
Mon
Tue
Wed3
Thu
Fri1
Wednesday carries the three weekly waste inspections. Friday is late.
A checklist line in the field
Lids and bungs closed Every container closed except while actively adding waste. A funnel left sitting in an open bung is the most common violation written.
PassFailN/A Photo
A failed line cannot be closed without a photograph and a named corrective action.
The permit gap
FMCSA USDOT number and operating authority Held
TDLR Boiler registration Not held
CDPH Radioactive materials registration Not in the rule pack
The last line is a permit you hold that we cannot explain — either a gap in our rules or one you no longer need.
/ What you get

Five things, each traceable to the requirement behind it.

Applicability register

Every requirement in force at your address, with its verdict, its citation, the administering agency and the facts it was decided on.

applies · partially · does not · undecided

Written programs

Documents built from your own chemicals, equipment, processes and roles. Editable, approvable, and exportable as PDF.

every section traces to a requirement

Permit register

What you are required to hold, reconciled against what you have already filed, with the certificate attached and the renewal scheduled.

required · held · unexplained

Compliance calendar

Recurring work with an owner, a due date, and the latest date the regulation allows — which are not the same date.

slack shown per task

Evidence vault

Inspection records, photographs, findings and corrective actions, retained for the period the requirement sets and held under legal hold when needed.

retention computed at capture
/ Where we are honest

A compliance tool that overstates itself is worse than a spreadsheet.

Anyone can build software that always answers. The hard part is knowing when not to, and saying so where it can be seen.

undecided is a real verdict

When your profile does not carry enough to reach an answer, the register says so and names the question, rather than guessing and looking confident. A blank cell is a follow-up, not a “no”.

we do not invent regulatory text

Citations point at the real section. We do not paraphrase a regulation into the record and cite it back to you as law.

mass and volume are not interconvertible

A chemical entered in liters cannot answer a threshold written in pounds without a density nobody collected. That rule returns undecided rather than a plausible number.

we name the layer you are reading

Federal rules apply at every address. All fifty-two states carry their OSHA jurisdiction, water-permitting authority and hazardous-waste authorization — retrieved from the agency and dated — so we can tell you who you answer to anywhere in the country.

State rules are authored for three: Texas, California and Ohio. The local layer — county, fire, air district, sewer — is modelled for San Antonio, Menlo Park and Fremont. Everywhere else we geocode the address, name the county and city we found, and mark that layer undetermined rather than leaving it quietly empty. A gap you can see is worth more than a register that looks finished.

the determination is yours to accept

Nothing here is an attestation. A determination is reviewed and accepted by your responsible person, and the record shows who and when.

/ Where it stands

Built against real facilities, scored against answer keys written first.

Every rule was validated against a requirement register drawn up before the intake existed — including registers that say a requirement does not apply, which is the only way to know the engine is not simply agreeing with everything. We count wrong answers rather than quote a percentage: a rule that cannot decide says so and schedules nothing, and an admitted gap is not the same cost as a confident mistake.

Requirements
123
federal law, plus Texas, California and Ohio
States resolved
52
every state, DC and Puerto Rico — federal layer
Attributes
141
the controlled vocabulary rules may reference
Wrong answers
0
on a 55-item key written before the intake; one item undecided, and it says what it is waiting for
Second pilot
0
wrong of 59, against a register drawn from a real client’s files — one item is adjudicated and says on what grounds
Reference lists
8
retrieved from the published source with citation and version date, cross-checked against an independent EPA compilation
Inspection criteria
205
authored lines across 45 field checklists
Local layer
3
metros resolved to fire, sewer and air — see below
/ Talk to us

Bring us a facility and we will show you its register.

Send the chemical inventory, the equipment list and the address. You will get back what applies, what you are missing, and the facts behind every line of it — including the ones we could not decide.

Federal rules everywhere; state rules for Texas, California and Ohio; the local layer for San Antonio, Menlo Park and Fremont. Tell us where the site is and we will say plainly what we can decide and what we cannot — before you spend anything.