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Environmental Management System

Environmental Management System. Ginna Moore and Dan Thurston. Definitions. Environmental Management System (EMS): part of a comprehensive management system that addresses how the overall business activities, including its products and services, impact the environment.

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Environmental Management System

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  1. Environmental Management System Ginna Moore and Dan Thurston

  2. Definitions Environmental Management System (EMS): part of a comprehensive management system that addresses how the overall business activities, including its products and services, impact the environment. Environment: the global surroundings in which an organization operates (includes air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interactions). Environmental aspect: an element of an organization’s activities, products, or services that can interact with the environment (ex., wastewater discharge, air emissions, and energy usage). TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  3. Definitions Environmental impact: any change, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization’s activities, products or services (ex., impacts on habitat, water supply, and soil erosion). Environmental objective: overall environmental goal, arising from the policy statement, that an organization sets for itself and which is quantified when practical. Environmental target: a detailed performance requirement, quantified when practical. Must be met in order to achieve objective. (ex., wastewater temperature controlled between 10° C and 14° C). TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  4. Background • 1991 – Strategic Advisory Group on the Environment (SAGE) was formed by ISO. • 1992 – Technical Committee (TC) 207 formed with a mission to develop standards for an environmental management system (EMS), later identified as ISO 14000. • A working group on environmental aspects in product standards was formed. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  5. ISO 14000 • Experience with ISO 9000 helped in development of ISO 14000. • Identified as “process standards” (standards that address the process rather than the end goal). • Divided into two separate areas: • Organizational evaluation standards • Product evaluations standards TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  6. Organizational Evaluation Standards TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  7. Product Evaluation Standards TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  8. ISO 14001 • Provides organizations with the elements for an EMS that can be integrated into other managements systems to help achieve environmental and economic goals. • Describes requirements for registration and/or self-declaration of an organization’s EMS. • Requirements based on the process and not on the product. • Requires commitment to the organization’s EMS policy, applicable regulations and continual improvement. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  9. Requirements of ISO 14001 4.1 General Requirements 4.2 Environmental Policy 4.3 Planning 4.3.1 Environmental Aspects 4.3.2 Legal and other Requirements 4.3.3 Objectives and Targets 4.3.4 Environmental Management Program(s) TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  10. Requirements of ISO 14001 4.4 Implementation and Operation 4.4.1 Structure and Responsibility 4.4.2 Training, Awareness, and Competency 4.4.3 Communication 4.4.4 Environmental Management System Documentation 4.4.5 Document Control 4.4.6 Operational Control 4.4.7 Emergency Preparedness and Response TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  11. Requirements of ISO 14001 4.5 Checking and Corrective Action 4.5.1 Monitoring and Measuring 4.5.2 Nonconformance and Corrective and Preventative Action 4.5.3 Records 4.5.4 EMS Audit 4.6 Management Review TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  12. EMS Model Environmental Policy Planning Implementation and Operation Continual Improvement Management Review Checking and Corrective Action TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  13. Benefits of EMS • Global • Facilitate trade and remove trade barriers. • Improve environmental performance of planet Earth. • Build consensus that there is a need for environmental management and a common terminology. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  14. Benefits of EMS • Organizational • Assures customers of commitment to environmental management. • Meets customer requirements (primary reason for organizations to become certified). • Maintains good public/community relations image. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  15. Benefits of EMS • Organizational • Satisfies investor criteria and improves access to capital. • Obtains insurance at reasonable cost. • Increases market share which results in competitive advantage. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  16. Benefits of EMS • Organizational • Reduces incidents that result in liability. • Improves defense posture in litigation. • Conserves input materials and energy. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  17. Benefits of EMS • Organizational • Facilitates the attainment of permits and authorizations. • Improves industry/government relations. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  18. Health and Safety • ISO 14001 assumes that cultural transformation takes place through employee involvement and responsibility from the bottom up, not from dictates from the top. TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  19. EMS and You Why is it important?

  20. The Earth is a Small Place! TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  21. How much Electricity does your Company use? It has to come from somewhere. . .

  22. 140 Cubic Yard Dipper TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  23. 240 Cubic Yard Truck TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  24. Even Bigger TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  25. Coal Mine-Perry County, Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  26. Coal Mine – Danville, Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  27. It takes a lot of Coal to Light the World TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  28. How Much Fuel Does Your Company Fleet Use? It has to come from somewhere. . .

  29. Martinsville Tank Farm TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  30. Woodville Refinery TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  31. Madison County Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  32. What about the end product? TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  33. Do you see where you live? TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  34. Environmental Impact At first glance it might not seem too bad...

  35. Fluorspar Mine - Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  36. Dig Deeper. . . To see the real impact.

  37. Fluorspar Mine - Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  38. Fluorspar Mine - Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  39. EMS – Environmental Aspects • Air Impacts • Water Impacts • Land Impacts • Resource Consumption • Waste Stream • Light Impacts TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  40. Silica Hydraulic MiningOttawa, Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  41. Water Impacts • Where does the runoff go? • What is the temperature of the wastewater? • What is the toxicity of the wastewater? • Soil erosion? TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  42. Water Temperature TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  43. Ground and Surface Water Contamination TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  44. Water Pollutants and Solids TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  45. Water Usage, Volume, and Balance TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  46. Air Impacts • Dust? • Air pollutants? • Odor? TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  47. Marquette Cement Plant-Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  48. Zinc Plant – Danville, Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  49. Land Impacts • Soil Contamination • Soil Erosion TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

  50. Casey, Illinois TEC 5133: Total Quality Systems - Spring 2005

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