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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Hats Off to 2016 New Product of the Year Winners!
Our 2016 contest attracted entries in seven categories, including environ- mental management, green technology, health and safety/cleanup, software/ SaaS, soil and groundwater, wastewater, and water.
BY JERRY LAWS
We announced the winners of Environmental Protec- tion’s 2016 New Product of the Year Contest in De- cember 2016, recognizing seven companies in one of the most competitive contests to date in this series.
The annual contest attracted entries in seven categories, includ- ing environmental management, green technology, health and safety/cleanup, software/SaaS, soil and groundwater, wastewater, and water. An independent panel of three highly qualified judges chose the winners.
There were high-quality, innovative entries in every category, which is another encouraging sign that the environmental mar- ketplace is dynamic and growing. The competition was strong this year in categories such as health & safety/cleanup and wastewater.
Environmental Protection is a Dallas-based title within the 1105 Media Inc. Infrastructure Solutions Group. The group also includes Occupational Health & Safety (https://ohsonline.com), Security To- day (https://securitytoday.com), School Planning & Management (https://webspm.com/), College Planning & Management (https:// webcpm.com/), HME Business (https://hme-business.com/), and Mobility Management (https://mobilitymgmt.com/).
Matt Holden (mholden@1105media.com), associate editor of OH&S magazine and the group’s social media editor, is the editor of the Infrastructure Solutions Group’s website (https://infrastruc- turesolutionsgroup.com/) and its newsletters. He creates and aggre- gates important news in the fast-paced and growing infrastructure markets—across all transportation modes, as well as facilities, pipe- lines, buildings, power, security, environmental infrastructure, and public works.
To be eligible for the Environmental Protection 2016 awards, products must have been introduced to the market during the 2016 calendar year. Serving as judges in the contest were:
tor of Safety and Health and Safety Engineer for Cross Environ- mental Services, Inc. (Crystal Springs, FL)
■ Angela Neville, JD, energy reporter for the Texas Lawyer newspaper (Dallas, TX) and law.com, and former editor of Envi- ronmental Protection magazine
■ Fred Elliott, a freelance author in Austin, Texas, who writes frequently for OH&S and other publications on safety, health, and environmental topics
The award winners and the categories in which they won, are:
■ Blue FrogTM Technology by Absolute Aeration: Wastewater, Blue Frog System Circulator Clusters
■ EOS Remediation, LLC: Soil and Groundwater, EOS ZVI
■ EXAIR Corporation: Green Technology, Efficiency Lab
■ Medgate: Software/SaaS, Medgate Management of Change
Module
■ ParkUSA: Water, BreakTank CGF
■ VelocityEHS: Environmental Management, VelocityEHS
Environmental Management Software
■ WaterStep: Health and Safety/Cleanup, Portable Bleach
Maker
All of their winning products are featured here.
The WaterStep product had the highest scores among all en-
tries. Judge Tim Grobe commented, “I really like the portable bleach maker.”
The winners are featured on the Environmental Protection web- site, www.eponline.com.
I congratulate all of the entrants on their fine work and thank them for participating. We hope they’ll enter our 2017 contest, as well.
Jerry Laws is the editorial director of Environmental Protection.
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Timothy Alan Grobe, MS, CSP, CHMM, CET, ASCS, direc-
SOFTWARE/SAAS
EP8
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Medgate’s Management of Change module allows users to take control of the change management process. By effectively managing change, users can align with process safety management regulations and reduce risk. Users can define workflows and approval processes, giving flexibility to manage PSM requirements such as pre- startup safety reviews (PSSRs), change requests and chemical approvals.
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