Transcript Tobyhanna Army Depot Environmental Program

Tobyhanna Army Depot
ISO 14001
Implementation
16 June 2004
C4ISR Logistics Support Center for
Warfighter Readiness and Transformation
From handheld radios to satellite
communications
 Full service repair
 Overhaul
 Fabrication
Utilizes advanced technologies to ensure
the readiness of our Armed Forces
Support all DoD, other Federal Facilities,
and military sales
History
Depot is 51 years old
Army has maintained a nearly continuous
presence in Tobyhanna since 1912
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Field artillery training camp
Civilian Conservation Corps camp
Artillery training of West Point Cadets
WW II prisoner-of-war camp
Storage site for gliders used in D-Day
In 50 years, gradual change from supply to
maintenance depot
Statistics
Largest employer in region
3800 employees
1296 acres
153 buildings
> 4,500,000 square feet
56% veterans
Average age 49
Average years of service 20
Average Salary of $40,200
$877 million impact on community
Award winning
Environmental Program
Every environmental media
Title V Facility
RCRA Part B Permit – Storage
NPDES Permit – STP, Storm water, and
IWTP
DW Permit
Registered UST
ISO 14001
 Participated in DoD Working Group
 Working at implementing for several years
 Depot developed other depot-wide management
programs that competed for employees’ time
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Team Power
VPP
Lean Initiatives
ISO 9000:2000
 Became ISO 9000:2000 certified in Feb 03
 Became ISO 14001 certified in Nov 03
 Using same third party registrar for both
certifications
ISO 14001 (cont.)
 Have management buy-in
Gap analysis – 80% with DoD established programs
 Commander’s Policy meet standard’s requirements
 Environmental Management System (EMS) Manual –
depot regulation
 Environmental Coordinator is EMS Manager
 Each directorate and all command staff offices has
an officially appointed representative – meet
monthly
 All supervisors have ISO 14001 requirements in
their rating standards
 Created communication log
 Awareness campaign
ISO 14001 (cont.)
 Each organization identified their products,
services or activities that affected the environment
and determined if significant or not
EMD ranked each of the significant impacts
 - 79 identified
 - Highest six are being mitigated
Created Target and Objectives to mitigate 6
significant environmental impacts
 Six separate teams created to manage
 Meet periodically
ISO 14001 (cont.)
 Trained internal auditors from EMD, Quality, and
ISO 14001 directorate representatives
 Have to audit each organization annually
 Created Corrective/Preventive/NOD program
 Maintain Log (CARTS)
 Follow-up and report out to CO and Directors
(Scorecard)
 Management review required – accomplish during
EQCC (Risk Management Committee)
Key is strive for continuous improvement,
document control, periodic review of program,
record maintenance, and management review
Groups to Management EMS
EMD meets weekly
EQCC meets quarterly
ISO 14001 representatives
meet quarterly
T & O Teams meet periodically,
report quarterly
Major Efforts
Gap analysis
EMS manual
Aspects and impacts
Internal audit program
Communication log
Document control
Awareness
Certification
Awareness
Cascade briefings
Articles
Bulletins
Pamphlets/cards
Banners
Organizational activity reports
Audits
Contractor Support
Gap analysis
General awareness training
Readiness assessment audit
Certification
Environmental
Policy
Management
Review
Planning
Continual
Improvement
Checking /
Corrective Action
Implementation