The NIMONIK Team will be at Booth 324 at the AMERICANA conference at the Palais de Congrès from March 17th to 19th. We will be demoing the product and would like to meet as many of you as possible.

To get a personal tutorial or see how to incorporate your legal register into NIMONIK, schedule an appointment via email info@nimonik.ca. The floorplan is available here.

As an extra treat, if you come to our booth for a demo, we will give you a 50$ credit towards a new subscription.

The need for speed is in all of us. Last week, we made significant performance improvements. This was done by removing data processing bottlenecks one-by-one, a long process but in pure figures, significant speed improvements were achieved. We hope that this will translate to an improved and smoother experience for our users. Let us know if you like the speed of the site. http://www.nimonikapp.ca

Even though the global economic downturn has effectively eliminated the market for many recycled materials (paper, plastics and glass), provinces in Canada have been pushing ahead with EPR, or Stewardship, programs.

Sure EPR is catchy, but what does it mean? Extended Producer Responsibility makes the producer (manufacturer, distributor, importer) responsible for the life-cycle management of their products, including financing the collection and recycling of discarded products. Programs created to meet these requirements are usually funded by the producer and the consumer, and not the tax-payer.

As is the case with everything in Canada, each province has pretty much the same EPR programs in place. And as is also typically Canadian, each provincial program is deceptively different. How to navigate this bewildering regulatory landscape? Simple. Check out NIMONIK’s brand new topic: General Waste Management and Stewardship. You can already find information for Québec, Ontario and British Columbia, with other jurisdictions coming soon.

A major challenge with ISO 14001:2004 and equivalent systems is legal registers. In our experience, we have seen registers in various formats and with different content, but one common thread is their difficulty to update them. When companies undergo ISO 14001 audits, they rush to update their legal registers – often using consultants or lawyers at a heavy cost. With NIMONIK, your register will always be up-to-date and ready to use .

With Nimonik, you can create Facilities which allows you to build and host three items:

1. A Legal Register
2. An Impact-Aspect Register
3. Documents related to your facility (permits, certificates of authorization, corporate requirements…)

If you have existing registers, we can import them into the system. If you want to create new registers, you can use our templates to quickly get you started. If you have many facilities with similar activities, you can share registers between those facilities. Nimonik will then update your registers and notify you if the legislation you have referenced has changed.

By creating an integrated legal and aspect-impact register, you are constantly in conformance with 4.3.2 of ISO 14001. Our system links the legislation, guidance text, your legal and aspect and impact registers – updating them on a continual basis and issuing your team emails when changes might affect your operations.

Anytime legislation you have referenced changes, you will receive email notifications. By hosting your register online at Nimonik, you can share it with your colleagues and build institutional memory via comments and changes. For permits, we will notify you when a permit is about to expire and must be renewed. Essentially, Nimonik brings the broader environmental obligations down to an operational level. Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions.

Overview:

The system links your requirements to our plain language guidance, our updates and you receive notifications by email. See the video below for more details:

In the next few weeks, we will be unveiling a new feature: Municipal Tracking. We will offer bulletins (plain language updates) and links to municipal by-laws. Only Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver will include Topics (detailed guidance text) on municipal by-laws, other municipalities will only have updates. As such, municipalities are priced significantly lower than provinces: only 10$/month/municipality.

Some of the municipalities we will track include:

1. Montréal
2. Toronto
3. Vancouver
4. Abbotsford
5. Baie D’urfé
6. Calgary
7. Charlebourg (Arrondissement)
8. Charlottetown
9. Cornwall
10. Edmonton
11. Gander
12. Halifax
13. Hamilton
14. Laurentien (arrondissement)
15. Longeuil-StHubert
16. Mirabel 
17. Moncton
18. Ottawa
19. Quebec City
20. Regina
21. Saskatoon
22. St. John’s
23. Valleyfield
24. Winnipeg
25. Lac Brome
26. Mississauga