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November 4, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Virtual Zoom Meeting 9am – 12pm
Cost: Members of WMASSP/WMIHS/MIHS: $15.00 per person
Non-members: $25.00 per person
Students: Free
Register and pay by credit card at www.wmihs.org by Monday, November 3.
After payment, the link to the presentation will be listed on the confirmation page. It will also be in the receipt you receive via email. If you don’t see the link before the meeting or have problems registering, please contact me at bwisniewski@myairlife.com
Sarah Anderson, CIH, Global Director of Industrial Hygiene, Bristol Meyers Squibb
Understanding the New TSCA Regulation for Methylene Chloride
Join this session for a comprehensive overview of the EPA’s Final Rule for Methylene Chloride under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the new regulation’s scope and impact, including:
- Prohibitions on the use of methylene chloride for consumer uses, industrial and commercial uses.
- The requirements of the new Workplace Chemical Protection Program (WCPP) for chemical uses are still permitted. This includes new inhalation exposure limits, monitoring protocols, and control measures.
- Key compliance deadlines for manufacturers, processors, and distributors for things like revising Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and implementing exposure monitoring.
- Detailed recordkeeping and downstream notification requirements for everyone in the supply chain.
- Specific exemptions for certain industries, such as civilian aviation and emergency use for NASA missions.
This presentation will be helpful for manufacturers, importers, distributors, and industrial users of chemicals subject to current or planned regulatory changes.
Sarah Anderson received an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Public Health from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been a Certified Industrial Hygienist since 1993. Sarah has worked in various functions as an industrial hygienist and management executive with Amoco-BP for 18 years, Royal Dutch Shell for 5 years, worked with SGS as their Global Operational Integrity Manager in charge of Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Environmental Management for over 85,000 people working in over 140 different countries world-wide and is currently a Principal Consultant in IFO Group.
In her current role, she is developing IH/OH and Environmental programs, global systems and implementation methods to increase continuity, efficiency and effectiveness on a global level and has implemented the Value Strategy to achieve her goals and the goals of her clients.
Sarah is a team leader on the AIHA TSCA Advisory Group in charge of developing training materials for each of the finalized Lautenberg Act Standards to help end users understand the lie expectations for complying with each related standard.
Rich Cropper, CIH, CF Industries
AIHA’s Compliance Resource Guide (CRG)
The EPA released a “Workplace Chemical Protection Program (WCPP) Compliance Guide” in January 2025. This guide is intended for businesses that manufacture, import, process, use, distribute, or dispose of chemicals regulated under TSCA. It provides an overview of typical WCPP requirements, which are designed to address unreasonable risks from chemical exposure in occupational settings.
The EPA has also published compliance guides for specific chemical substances, including:
- Methylene Chloride
- Trichloroethylene
- Perchloroethylene (with specific guides for its use in dry cleaning and energized electrical cleaning)
These substance-specific guides offer detailed information on the risk management rules for each chemical.
Rich will review AIHA’s Compliance Resource Guide (CRG) which encompasses all in-scope chemicals, its functionality and how it can help you with TSCA requirements. This presentation will help to change from a pessimistic to an optimistic view of what EPA is trying to accomplish.
Rich is an exposure assessor who addresses total worker health issues through human organizational performance concepts and human factor engineering principles. He has expertise in complex/exotic chemical hazard assessment and risk management. Rich has spent 13 years in the chemical manufacturing and oil/gas refining and oil/gas upstream operation industries. He has been the team leader for the AIHA TSCA Advisory Group (technical best practices group). Rich LOVES reading, playing pickleball, and spending time with family and friends.
Genevieve Cottrell, CEM, Director of Occupational and Environmental Safety, Lansing Community College
Case Study – Achieving Methylene Chloride/Dichloromethane (DCM) compliance in a university setting.
The challenges of DCM compliance and implementing the Workplace Chemical Protection Program including identifying users and defining scope, identifying resource gaps and practical compliance options, getting leadership support, outreach and expectation setting, staying on schedule, sampling, training tools and AI-based templates, and adapting to changes.
Genevieve Cottrell is Director of Occupational and Environmental Safety at Lansing Community College. She earned her B.S. in Environmental Health & Safety from the University of Michigan and served 17 years as an Industrial Hygienist and Chemical Safety Officer at Michigan State University. She is a Certified Professional Emergency Manager with the Michigan State Police and the Emergency Management Liaison for the City of Perry.