Guides
Compliance guides for industrial plants
The standards and filings most often reviewed at a plant, explained from the official text in force: what they require, who they apply to and what evidence an inspection asks for.
NOM-020-STPS
NOM-020-STPS: what it requires, how to classify your equipment and how to prepare for an inspection
A practical guide, based on the official text, to working out which equipment at your plant is regulated, which category each item falls in and what evidence an inspector will ask for.
10 min readUpdated
COA · RETC
Mexico's annual operating report (COA): who files it, when and what it includes
What the Cédula de Operación Anual is, how to tell whether your plant must file it, what it reports and how the federal COA differs from Baja California's state COA.
6 min readUpdated
Residuos peligrosos
Hazardous waste in Mexico: generator category, registration, storage, logbook and manifests
A guide based on Mexico's general waste law (LGPGIR) and its regulation for organizing a plant's hazardous-waste management, from classification to final disposal, with the evidence an inspection asks for.
7 min readUpdated
NOM-002-STPS
NOM-002-STPS: ordinary or high fire risk, and what each one requires
A guide based on the official text to classifying your plant's fire risk and knowing what an inspector will ask for in each case.
6 min readUpdated
The guides are for information and cite the official text they summarize; they don't replace an assessment of your case.