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Environmental Management Systems
Environmental Management Systems
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Elements of a solid internal program "Communication, Commitment, Accountability"
Summary of Puget Sound Clean Air Agency list of factors demonstrating compliance
- Managers with authority, support, and responsibility to manage and improve compliance
- Widely disseminated written environmental policy
- Use of a monitoring, reporting, and auditing program with sufficient authority and resources
- Employee training program for maintaining regulatory expertise
- Incentive system for rewarding employee contributions to environmental excellence
- Disciplinary measures to enforce violations of environmental policy
- Process to evaluate and improve efforts to achieve environmental excellence.
Example Environmental Management Systems
ISO 14000
ISO 14000 Environmental Management System -- This International Standard specifies requirements for an environmental management system, to enable an organization to formulate a policy and objectives taking into account legislative requirements and information about significant environmental impacts. It applies to those environmental aspects which the organization can control and over which it can be expected to have an influence. It does not itself state specific environmental performance criteria.
American Chemistry Council Responsible Care Program
American Chemistry Council Responsible Care® Program -- Responsible Care® companies: Improve performance in health, safety and environmental quality; Listen and respond to public concerns; Assist each other to achieve optimum performance; And report their progress to the public.
Tools for Effective Environmental Programs
Management Support and Employee involvement
- Management support from the top down
- Employee Awareness of Pollution Prevention Goals (posters, newsletter)
- Include Environmental Awareness in Safety Program
- Include Environmental Awareness in New Employee Training
Green Accounting
- Allocate environmental costs rather than burying them in overhead
- U.S. EPA Environmental Accounting Project -- To encourage and motivate business to understand their environmental costs, and integrate these costs into decision making.
Environmental Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
LCA is the analysis of the environmental benefits and burdens associated with an existing or proposed product, process or facility throughout the life cycle of the entity being analyzed.
Reasons for performing an LCA include:
- Compile data for internal information and regulatory reporting,
- Use as a design tool,
- Compare products and product lines to identify areas of risk,
- Compare products to those of competitors,
- Provide support for legislative and regulatory positions, and
- Support marketing based on environmental attributes.
Life Cycle Assessment resources:
Inventory Management
Avoid wasting chemicals by practicing just in time ordering. Optimize inventory levels to meet product usage rates and product shelf life.
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