Environmental Management

Implementation Document control

- Ensure effective management of procedures and other system documents.

Implementation Communication

- Establish processes for internal and external communications on environmental management issues.

Checking/Corrective Action Non-conformance and corrective and preventive action

- Identify and correct problems and prevent their recurrence

Implementation Emergency preparedness and response

- Identify potential emergencies and develop procedures for preventing and responding to them.

implementation Operational control

- Identify, plan and manage your operations and activities in line with your policy, objectives and targets.

Checking/Corrective Action Records

- Maintain and manage records of EMS performance.

Implementation EMS documentation

- Maintain information on your EMS and related documents.

Checking/Corrective Action Monitoring and measurement

- Monitor key activities and track performance. Conduct periodic assessments of compliance with legal requirements.

Checking/Corrective Environmental System audit

- Periodically verify that your EMS is operating as intended.

What is an Environmental Managment System (EMS)?

A set of processes and practices that enable an organization to systematically assess and manage its environmental "footprint" ---the environmental impact associated with its activities, products, and services.

What Is an EMS?

An EMS is a formal set of policies and procedures that define how an organization will evaluate, manage, and track its environmental impacts.

Why Should My Organization Adopt an Environmental Management System

An EMS serves as an excellent tool for achieving cost effective environmental improvements through methods spurred by an organization's initiative rather than government regulation.

What is an Environmental Management System (EMS)?

An environmental management system is a management process designed to help an organization achieve and demonstrate improved environmental performance.

What is an Environmental Managment System (EMS)?

An important vehicle for improving environmental performance by providing organizations with the tools to successfully manage their environmental activities in a cost effective manner.

Why Should My Organization Adopt an EMS?

Better regulatory compliance.

Why Should My Organization Adopt an EMS?

Certification and recognition.

It is _______to prevent a spill in the first place or clean it up afterwards

Cheaper

An EMS does not by itself guarantee the copetence or abilities of those responsible for_______activites

Compliance

Environmental Policy?

Develop a statement of your organization's commitment to the environment

Check phase

During the "Check" phase, an organization evaluates its progress toward meeting its program goals through ongoing monitoring and measuring and periodic internal EMS audits.

What does an EMS provide for business?

EMS can provide a structure for a business to manage, assess, and continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the management of their environmental activities.

How is an EMS structured?

EMS follows the Plan-Do-Check-Act structure provided by the ISO 14001 EMS Standard.

Implementation Training, awareness and competence

Ensure that your employees are trained and capable of carrying out their environmental responsibilities

What is an Environmental Management System (EMS)?

Environmental aspects arise from human or industrial activities, products, or services that can interact with the environment. Environmental aspects are evaluated as to whether they can cause significant environmental impacts or changes.

___________developed and integrated into the organizational structure will reduce risks from pollution and will help provide and opportunity to be more efficient and organized.

Environmental management systems

Planning Objectives and targets

Establish environmental goals for your organization, in line with your policy, environmental impacts, the views of interested parties and other factors.

Implementation Structure and responsibility

Establish roles and responsibilities for environmental management and provide appropriate resources.

What are the Benefits of an EMS?

Facilitates assessment of risks and liabilities

What are the benefits of an EMS?

Helps an organization comply with its regulatory responsibilities, and provides a means for addressing non-regulated environmental aspects such as energy efficiency and resource conservation;

There are several models for EMSs. The most widely adopted model,_______, is a voluntary.

ISO 14001

During the "Plan" phase, an organization?

Identifies health and safety impacts resulting from its products,activities, and services.

Planning Legal and other requirements?

Identify and ensure access to relevant laws and regulations, as well as other requirements to which your organization adheres.

Planning Environmental aspects ?

Identify environmental attributes of your products, activities and services. Determine those that could have significant impacts on the environment.

Step 5: Management Review

In the management review step, upper management reviews the EMS, including the results of internal assessments. Modifications to the EMS are made, as necessary, to ensure compliance. The management review is designed to ensure continual improvement of the EMS, taking into account the results of checking and corrective actions undertaken in Step 4.

What are the Benefits of an EMS?

Increases employees' environmental awareness and involvement throughout the organization;

What are the Benefits of an EMS?

Increases operating efficiency, creates standard operating procedures, and captures institutional knowledge of experienced employees;

ISO stands for?

International Organization for Standardization

facitities often respond to these regulations and problems with successful solutions designed to meet the latest regulations but rarely coordinate thier environmental activites into and overall_______

Management System

Planning Environmental management program

Plan actions necessary to achieve your objectives and targets

EMSs follow a basic model?

Plan-Do-Check-Act

To control and properly mange ________, federal, state and local governments have developed environmental regulations that organizations must comply with or face penalties,

Pollutants

What are the Benefits of an EMS?

Potential environmental and financial benefits; and

What are the Benefits of an EMS?

Provides a competitive edge and improve public relations.

It is better to make a product right the first time or to peform a lot of _____later

Re-work

What are the Benefits of Implementing an EMS?

Reduced liabiliy, increased efficiency, fewer accidents, impoved pubil image, Enhanced regulatory compliance, competitive advantage`

Step 1: Environmental Policy

The EMS development process starts with establishing an Environmental Policy that is tied to the organization's mission.

Step 4: Checking and Correction

The checking and corrective action step includes monitoring and measuring (e.g., internal assessments), problem and cause identification, corrective and preventative action implementation, and an EMS Review.

What offset the cost of implementing an EMS

The costs of implementing an EMS will be offset by savings resulting form decreased instances of noncompliance, lower record keeping costs due to improved environmental performance, reduced cost of materials due to increased production efficiency,

Step 3: Implementation

The implementation step consists of defining the structure, responsibilities, and programs; implementing training; creating the EMS documentation (including document control and record keeping); communicating the EMS to personnel; developing and implementing standard operating procedures [SOPs]; and developing and implementing emergency preparedness and response procedures.

What are the cost of Implementation?

The major cost of implementing an EMS is staff time.

Environmental Management System?

The part of an overall management system which includes structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procurements, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining an environmental policy.

Step 2: Planning

The planning step consists of identifying regulatory and other requirements; identifying processes, resources, and significant impacts; identifying pollution prevention opportunities; developing objectives and targets for improvement efforts; and creating a planning, programming, and budgeting system.

An EMS approach incorporates periodic review by __________ and emphasizes continuous improvement instead of crisis management.

Top Management

Unlike a regulation, an EMS is ________

Voluntary

Environmental issues are becoming more complex and the cost of________ continues to rise. The traditional way of addressing environmental issues in a reactive manner has proven to be highly inefficient.

Waste Management

Improved environmental performance.

Why Should My Organization Adopt an EMS?

Environmental Management System

_____ is a process by which an organization's management identifies the regulated and unregulated environmental interactions of its operations, assesses current performance, including compliance, and develops targets and plans to achieve both significant and incremental environmental improvements.

ISO 14000 refers to?

a series of voluntary standards in the environmental field under development by ISO

it is more_________to prevent pollution or to mange it after it has been generated?

cost effective

During the "Plan" phase, an organization?

identifies all of its environmental aspects

What benefits can be gained from implementing an environmental management system?

integrating pollution prevention and waste reduction into our daily work and strategic operations planning, conserving resources, assuring interested parties and stakeholders of commitment to demonstrate environmental management, increasing consistency and continuity of environmental performance, communicating achievements in reducing our ecological footprint.

During The "Do" phase, an organization?

involves implementation of the environmental plan through employee training and establishment of operational controls

What benefits can Business and industry can gain from environmental management system?

maintaining good community and public relationships, satisfying investor criteria and improving access to capital, obtaining insurance at reasonable cost, enhancing image and market share, meeting vendor criteria, improving cost control, reducing incidents that result in liability, demonstrating reasonable care, improving industry-government relationships.

Finally, the "Act" phase of an EMS involves

taking corrective action to update and improve the environmental plan.

ISO promotes the development and implementation of?

voluntary international standards, both for particular products and for environmental management issues.