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What is an Environmental Gorilla?

What is an environmental gorilla?When it comes to environmental issues, many facilities are primarily focused on environmental compliance – let’s make sure we meet our permit limits. Let’s stay out of trouble - today. While environmental compliance is an important aspect of environmental management, it should not be the sole focus of a facility. Each facility should also actively reduce its risk of potentially significant future environmental liabilities on a daily basis. The easiest way to start is to manage your environmental gorillas.

The "Invisible Gorilla"

According to Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, authors of the best-selling book The Invisible Gorilla, “Imagine you are asked to watch a short video in which six people – three in white shirts and three in black shirts – pass basketballs around. While you watch, you must keep a silent count of the number of passes made by the people in white shirts. At some point, a gorilla strolls into the middle of the action, faces the camera and thumps its chest, and then leaves, spending nine seconds on screen. Would you see the gorilla?”

How can something that appears to be so obvious, possibly go so unnoticed?

Well according to the authors, when they conducted this experiment at Harvard University a few years ago, half of the people that watched the video and counted the passes missed the gorilla!

This experiment reveals a significant behavioral tendency - we are not aware of a lot of things around us, and we do not recognize this lack of awareness. This causes many of us to simply overlook the obvious.

"How Could They Miss It?"

Here is a state-of-the-art chemical mix room with all of the “bells and whistles.” This facility was proud of the investment that it made to protect the environment by ensuring any release from drums and totes stored in this area would be contained by the trenches and sumps within the self-contained chemical mix room. The trenches and sumps actually contained sensors that would sound an alarm if any released material entered the structures.

Big Liability Hiding in Plain Sight

While quite impressive, we asked facility personnel for the purpose of the manhole cover. While the manhole cover is quite obvious in the picture, facility personnel simply stated that it was the access location for the facility’s storm water system, which discharges into an adjacent stream. The manhole cover was not sealed.

No one at the facility recognized something so obvious – this manhole was a direct pathway for released material to impact the environment. Even though the facility invested a lot of money into a state-of-the-art spill containment system, a significant gorilla still existed. A release onto the floor of the chemical mix room could enter this storm water system manhole and impact the nearby stream – resulting in a significant environmental liability.

At ENVISION ENVIRONMENTAL, we take the worry out of our clients’ environmental issues. Our employees have on average twenty years of experience in managing environmental issues. Our staff has extensive experience over a wide-range of commercial and industrial facilities, from “Mom & Pop Shops” to Fortune 100 manufacturing complexes. This is vital in identifying environmental gorillas and helping you reduce your environmental liabilities.

Get a Fresh Set of Eyes at Your Site
Schedule a Gorilla Evaluation

Let us visit your facility for a Gorilla Evaluation, where a member of our experienced staff will tour your facility with you.

During this tour, ENVISION will identify any environmental gorillas and provide suggestions on how to address them.  Our standard fee for a Gorilla Evaluation is $5,000, but for a limited time, we are offering the special rate of $2,497.

You'll get the same thorough analysis we have conducted in facilities across the country. Your Environmental Gorilla Evaluation is actually four separate evaluations in one and includes...

1. Facility Background Report
2. Administrative Management Gorillas Report
3. Preventive Management Gorillas Report
4. Area-Specific Gorillas Report

From the storage areas to the maintenance shop, the boiler room to the waste storage areas, our inspection will be comprehensive.If you're interested in knowing what you don't know...

If you want to make sure you're aware of significant threats that could create significant liabilities...

And if you value a "second set of eyes" to give you the independent perspective of an informed and objective third-party...

The Environmental Gorilla Evaluation is a smart investment... a simple and effective way to identify your most pressing environmental liabilities.

Why not schedule your Environmental Gorilla Evaluation at a special reduced rate now?

To schedule your Gorilla Evaluation, please contact Mark Roman at (609) 208-1885 or markroman@envisionenvironmental.com.

The analysis and reporting provided have been precise and complete with detail and back-up. Equally importantly, Envision provides recommendations and reports written in understandable language, with solutions that make good business sense."

Benne Hutson, Esq.
McGuire Woods

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