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Environmental Management Services, Inc. has been serving customers since 1989. Join us on our journey to achieve exellence in environmental stewardship.
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Environmental Management Services, Inc. (EMSI) is a fully bonded and insured woman-owned minority business, offering environmental solutions to the entire gamut of hazardous waste generating facilities in the Mid-Atlantic Region. EMSI was founded because of a need for a cost-effective, balanced approach to environmental challenges and regulatory requirements. Our staff of highly skilled certified hazardous materials managers, industrial hygienists, environmental chemists, hazardous materials technicians, biohazard technicians, and supportive technical associates are all trained and certified to provide the highest level of expertise for the solutions we offer, making EMSI an industry leader.
We value you, our Clients, and it shows! More than 95% of our work is for repeat clients because we deliver environmentally friendly solutions to the challenges they bring us in an efficient, cost-effective manner.
EMSI is proud to offer sustainable solutions from highly trained personnel with regulatory expertise, combined with experienced management in order to give you the security of knowing your waste is being handled legally and safely. We offer professional, friendly, reliable, and intimate service.
Shobhana Sharma, President & CEO, General Manager
Ms. Sharma, founder of EMSI, has decades of professional experience in toxic and chemical waste disposal, environmental remediation, and medical waste disposal, working with major government and industry clients.
She provides technical oversight in the development and implementation of worker safety and health programs and training, is responsible for all in-house training of field personnel and OSHA compliance, and conducts site and facility analysis of TSDFs on an ongoing basis to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and Local authorities.
Ms. Sharma has countless certifications and specialized training as well as extensive, real world, project experience. She is a member of: the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Chesapeake Area Biological Safety Association, Maryland Environmental Business Alliance, Suburban Maryland High Technology Council, National Capital Chapter of The Institute of Hazardous Materials Managers (IHMM), and Montgomery County LEPC. She was also Chair of Montgomery County Water Quality Advisory Group, appointed to Lieutenant Governor’s BWI Industry Council, and Board Member of F.A.C.E.S. Program, Carl M. Freedman Foundation.
Her experience, training, and affiliations give you, our clients, the confidence they need to know that your projects will be handled with the utmost care and professionalism.
Angela Sharma, Vice President, Corporate Business Director
With more than 29 years of experience with EMSI, Ms. Sharma is a veteran at the head of our sales force. She has opened up new markets to boost company revenues, and has an excellent grasp of the industry trends, which have become the basis for strategic planning and forecasting. She is comfortable with meeting the key players of the industry.
Ms. Sharma takes part in related conferences and symposiums that extend the reach of the business to explore partnerships that improve profitability and presents strategies for expansion and study of the company’s competitors.
EMSI’s client base has come to rely on her experience and knowledge of hazardous waste management and EPA, DOT, and OSHA regulations. Her persistence and availability to her customers has encouraged them to stay with us. She also assists environmental chemists with site work and paperwork and is a member of the Emergency Response Team.
Ms. Sharma has specialized training and extensive project experience. She is a member of the National Capital Chapter of the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals (NCC-AHMP) and the Chesapeake Area Biological Association (CHABSA).
Kenneth Chaplin, Director, Operations & Emergency Response
Mr. Chaplin manages the Emergency Response Division which includes training, supervising team members, coordinating site activities and providing technical knowledge on personal protective equipment and equipment for chemical spill emergency situations. In addition, Mr. Chaplin is in charge of daily field operations involving chemical handling, sampling, analysis, packaging, transportation, disposal and remediation efforts. Mr. Chaplin has supervised a wide range of projects from one (1) day turnkey jobs to six (6) months remediation projects. His main projects were Ft. Meade-Demolition, AML Move, Life Technologies-Lab Packing, Washington Navy Yard, Gannett-Filtration Tank Cleanout and Arlington County's Household Hazardous Waste. Mr. Chaplin is certified in Forty (40) hour OSHA Hazardous Materials Site Worker (OSHA 29CFR 1910.120), Eight (8) hour Hazardous Materials Site Worker Supervisor (CFR 1910.120(e)(4), Sixteen (16) hour Incident Commander and Emergency Medical Training. Forty (40) hour Highway Emergency Response Specialist. In addition, he holds more than twenty (20) job related training certificates.
As a private owned company, each and every team member at EMSI is considered family. Trust and unity are engrained in our culture. We believe this paired with our core values of Excellence, Mutual Respect, Stewardship, and Integrity give us a motivation and goal that we can try to live up to for ourselves, the community and the planet. Not only are we a respectable company to work with, we also like to have fun in a healthy way.