Transcript Environmental Management Systems (EMS) for Small Businesses

Environmental Management
Systems (EMS) for
Port Tenants and Owners
US Environmental Protection Agency
Region 2
July 30, 2008
What is an Environmental
Management System?
a cycle of assessment in which people,
policies, plans, procedures and review
mechanisms are applied by an
organization to achieve its established
environmental objective
Main Elements of EMS
► Fenceline
► Management
Buy-in
► Envir Policy Statement
► Legal Regulations
► Aspects/Impacts
► Objective/Targets
► Communication
► Documentation
► Audits/Management Reviews
Cycle of Continual Improvement
Environmental
Policy
Management
Review
PLAN
ACT
EMS
Checking &
Corrective
Action
CHECK
Planning
DO
Implementation
General Benefits of an EMS
► Improve
environmental performance
► Enhance compliance
► Develop new customer marketing options
► Increase efficiency/reduced costs
► Enhance employee morale
► Improve public image
► Increase employee environmental awareness
Management Commitment
► Importance
► Role
► Securing
this buy-in
► Apparent in policy
Where is your fenceline?
► Options
► Zones
of Control, Influence and Interest
► Consider practical constraints and timing
► Assignment of responsibilities
► Must be documented
► Examples: ‘landside’, harbor or maintenance
operations
EMS Implementation Team
► Roles
and responsibilities
► Management
Specialist
► Members
Representative vs. EMS
should include: upper management,
operations manager, public affairs rep, health
and safety officer, etc.
Environmental Policy
► Appropriate
for nature, scale & environmental
impacts of activities, products or services
► Commitment to continual improvement,
pollution prevention & compliance
► Provides a framework for setting and
reviewing objectives and targets
► Documented, implemented and maintained
► Communicated to all employees
► Available to the public
Legal and Other Requirements
► Establish
and maintain a procedure to address
requirements
► Identify
and gain access to updates of legal
and other requirements
► Applies
facility
to environmental aspects of the
Illustrations of Applicable
Regulations
► CAA
- Diesel emissions
- PM, VOCs from painting/repair
- Vessel emissions
► CWA
- Ballast, bilge water discharge
- Stormwater discharge
- SPCC
► RCRA
-
Hazardous waste generation
Onshore waste water tanks
Underground storage tanks
Bulk storage
► TSCA
- PCBs
- Lead paint
► EPCRA
► CERCLA
► FIFRA
► Other
- Release reporting
- Chemical inventories
- Pesticide use
- Development of brownfields
- Dredging
Regulations
- OPA, OSHA, MARPOL
Environmental Aspects
& Their Impacts
► Environmental
Aspect
element of an organization's activities, products or
services that could impact the environment
► Environmental
Impact
actual or potential change to the environment due
to an organization’s activities, products or services
(i.e the results of an environmental aspect)
Factors to Consider for
Determining Significance
► Environmental
concerns such as:
 The size of the impact
 The frequency of the impact
 Legal and other requirements
► Business
concerns such as:
 Feasibility and cost of changing the impact
 Effect of change on other activities and
processes
► Concerns
of interested parties
Port
Landside
Operations
Activity
Aspects
Land Use
Diesel
Emissions
Bulk
Storage
Cleaning
Vessels
Emptying
Bilges
Impacts
Air
Pollution
Water
Pollution
Resource Damaged Threatened
Depletion Habitats
Health
Aspect/Impact
Activity, Product, Service
Aspects
Impacts
Establishing
Objective and Targets
► Objective
 Overall environmental goal
 i.e., ‘The end journey’
► Targets
 Detailed performance-based requirements
 How to achieve the end journey
► Factors
to Consider
 Relate to significant aspects & business priorities
 Base on technical and financial limitations
Environmental Management Program
(EMP)
► Definition
 Who
 When
 How
Environmental
Policy
Aspects
EMS
Process
Flow
Impacts
Significance
Assess
Feasibility
Environmental
Mgmt Program
Objectives &
Targets
Operations Controls, Training &
Communication Strategy
► Operation
controls: guidelines for procedures
 ensure work is performed effectively
► Training:
education of stakeholders on EMS
 enhances sustainability of efforts
► Communication
strategy: internal/external
method to convey EMS policy, progess, etc.
 enhances sustainability by engaging stakeholders
Required Documentation
provides accountability as official evidence of
all EMS components
► Description
of the “fenceline”
► Environmental policy
► Objectives & targets
► Formal plans (e.g., emergency response,
SPCC, waste minimization, training plans)
► Standard operating procedures & other nonengineering operational controls
Monitoring and Measurement
► Allows
for gauging of performance, analysis
of problems
► EMS implementation team selects measures,
i.e., key indicators of operations and activities
► Tie to objectives, targets & significant impacts
► Choose carefully, then evalute and record
► Example: quantity of energy/water used or
waste, emissions, etc produced as measure of
operational performance of a specific activity
EMS Audits
1.
2.
3.
Environmental compliance audits
EMS gap analyses
Internal EMS audits
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Not necessarily all-inclusive
Role of HQ and peer groups
Scope
Frequency
Practical recommendations
Corrective and Preventive Action
► Resolve
the immediate problem
► Consider
whether the same or similar
problems exist elsewhere
► Prevent
► Define
the problem from recurring
responsibilities and schedules
Management Review
► Enhances
sustainability
► Allows for cost-effectiveness
► Demonstrates progress made in achieving
objectives and targets
► Allows for continual improvement
► Ensures the EMS remains dynamic and can
address future needs/problems
► Seeks to answer, “Is the system working (i.e.,
suitable, adequate and effective)?”
EMS Benefits at Ports
► Integrates
new/pre-existing environmental
efforts with larger business goals
► Increases sustainability, thus improving health
of business, community & environment
► Allows for more efficient use of financial,
human and natural resources
► Improves communication, internal & external
► Fosters community awareness & support
EMS Benefits in Action
Port
Benefit
Program
Saving
Portland Reduced
Corpus
Christi
Los
Angeles
Purchased
$30,000/yr
renewable
energy
Based on $0.10/kWhr
consumption electric power
Reduced
Recycling
$28,684
waste
program
In one year
Protected
wildlife
NY / NJ Reduced
water use
Restored/
N/A
protected
habitats
Conserved
$655,000
millions of
In one year
gallons in 2005
R2 Port EMS Contact
Linda Longo,
212-637-3565
[email protected]