HAZMAT CONSULTING • TRAINING • AUDITS • OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
Regulations tell companies what they must do. STARS helps them figure out how to make compliance work in the real world.
Complex questions. Operational challenges. Practical solutions.
From regulatory interpretation and transportation problems to operating procedures, process improvements, and corrective actions, STARS helps your team determine what needs to change and how to implement it.
Explore Consulting
Training that prepares employees for the work they actually perform.
Choose self-paced online courses, live instructor-led webinars, or customized in-person training with practical exercises and hands-on instruction.
Explore Training OptionsFocused support for audits, ongoing compliance questions, litigation, and practical resources your team can use.
Find gaps between regulatory requirements, written procedures, and actual field practices. Get prioritized findings and practical corrective actions your team can implement.
Explore AuditsGive your team access to experienced HazMat specialists for classification, shipping, documentation, operational questions, and ongoing compliance support.
Explore HelpdeskIndependent technical and regulatory analysis for attorneys handling hazardous materials incidents, transportation disputes, operational failures, and complex litigation.
Explore Litigation SupportReady-to-use compliance resources, editable tools, regulatory updates, and mini-training materials to help your team maintain and strengthen its HazMat program throughout the year.
Explore Compliance KitsFrom manufacturing facilities and warehouses to transportation operations and distribution networks, STARS helps organizations address the hazardous materials challenges that arise in day-to-day operations.
Hazardous materials classification, packaging, shipping, plant operations, storage, procedures, and transportation readiness.
Receiving, storage, handling, segregation, shipping, documentation, employee practices, and operational audits.
Product classification, SDS information, repackaging, regulatory responsibilities, storage, and multimodal distribution.
HazMat transportation by highway, rail, and vessel, including intermodal container movements, shipping documentation, carrier responsibilities, equipment requirements, and operational compliance.
Bulk hazardous materials transportation and transfer operations, including rail tank cars, tank trucks, loading and unloading, equipment interfaces, operating procedures, responsibility handoffs, and regulatory compliance.
Independent technical analysis, expert witness services, incident evaluation, and operational risk assessments.
PRACTICAL TOOLS • MONTHLY RESOURCES • ONGOING SUPPORT
Practical resources your team can put to work—not another collection of regulations to file away.
Each month, STARS delivers industry-focused compliance tools, regulatory updates, real-world violation lessons, and mini-training materials to help your team maintain and improve its program without starting from scratch.
One industry-focused track
All four industry tracks
Annual subscription options also available.
WHY STARS?
Your internal EHS and HazMat professionals understand your facilities, equipment, people, and business requirements. STARS brings experience gained across different industries, transportation modes, and operating environments.
That outside perspective helps us recognize recurring problems, identify approaches that have worked elsewhere, and work alongside your team to implement practical solutions.
Look beyond individual findings to understand why problems keep occurring.
Address weaknesses in procedures, responsibilities, and operating practices—not just the symptoms.
Apply lessons learned across different operations rather than developing every solution from scratch.
Translate recommendations into procedures and practices employees can actually follow.
OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN ACTION
Regulations establish the requirements. Solving the problems that arise in daily operations takes a different kind of experience. Here are three examples of how STARS helped clients identify underlying issues and implement workable solutions.
RAIL OPERATIONS · ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
A facility experienced a sudden series of leaking manways on multiple rail tank cars, despite having no previous history of similar incidents.
A field investigation revealed that the pipe wrench used to properly close the manways had broken in half and had never been replaced. Personnel no longer had the tool needed to perform the closure procedure.
Once the equipment issue was corrected, the manway leaks stopped. No further incidents occurred.
WAREHOUSING · SYSTEMIC COMPLIANCE
During a warehouse audit, STARS found a leaking IBC labeled as corrosive, although neither its SDS nor shipping documents identified it as such.
Further investigation uncovered discrepancies across multiple product lines, including inconsistent classifications, SDSs, container labels, and shipping information.
The supplier began correcting classifications, SDSs, and labels across its product lines. The ongoing work is helping remove a compliance obstacle to a planned expansion involving dozens of additional storage locations.
MANUFACTURING · PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Railcars were making unnecessary trips across a manufacturing facility between the scales, inspection facility, and loading rack, consuming hours of switching time.
STARS recommended weighing cars upon arrival, checking scale documentation near the inspection facility, and moving cars directly to loading without repeated trips across the plant.
The facility implemented the change at no additional cost, saved hours of railcar movements, and increased the number of cars loaded per shift.
These examples reflect actual STARS engagements. Certain identifying details have been omitted or generalized to protect client confidentiality. The warehouse corrective-action effort remains ongoing.
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