UCMR 4 Workshop:
Technical Training & Seminar
 It's almost 2018! Are you ready for the fourth round of the EPA’s Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule?
Join us on January 31, 2018, for Babcock Labs’ UCMR 4 workshop (register now).
The workshop will include a short course seminar on UCMR 4 methods, analyses, and special requirements, in addition to the responsibilities of public water systems (PWSs). Attendees will also learn about sampling, including bottle type and preservation. Additionally, the workshop will provide real life case studies for review. Attendees are asked to bring a copy of their UCMR 4 schedule to the workshop so that they can receive one-on-one assistance to address their specific UCMR 4 needs.
Babcock Laboratories is an EPA UCMR 4 approved lab, fully certified to perform all UCMR 4 analyses . Since the inception of the program over 15 years ago, Babcock Labs has been the industry’s trusted laboratory for UCMR testing services. (read more)
ESOP Month:
Babcock Labs Celebrates Being Employee Owned
 For over 20 years, the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Association and its member companies across the nation have celebrated Employee Ownership Month every October. This is Babcock Labs’ third year as a 100 percent employee-owned company, and therefore our third year taking part in the October ESOP Month celebrations!
The purpose of ESOP Month is to engage and educate employees in their company ownership. As an ESOP, employees have stock in the company which in turn gives our staff greater incentive to provide our clients with exceptional analytical testing services. Essentially, by investing in the quality of the work we provide, each of us here at Babcock Labs is investing in our future and the futures of our fellow coworkers. It’s a win for our clients and it’s a win for our team. Additionally, it’s a win for our community because employee ownership and our ability to stay independent from multi-national network labs keeps revenue local, as our business and employees invest their earnings back into the local economy.
To celebrate this win-win-win situation, our employees participated in a month of ESOP fun! Our employee owners kicked off the start of October with a company breakfast where staff had the opportunity to share a meal together and hear about the month’s festivities. The festivities have included... (read more)
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