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ISO 14001ISO 14001ENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTAL

ASPECTSASPECTS

ISO 14001ISO 14001ENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTAL

ASPECTSASPECTS


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What are EnvironmentalAspects?

Features of a companys operations,processes, activities, products, or servicesthat can have an impact (good or bad) onthe environmentExamples

! use of resources! discharges to "ater, air, or land! #pills, lea$s, splashes! energy emissions

! %oxicity, reactivity, flammability,explosibility


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What is an Environmental&mpact?

A change (negative or positive) in theenvironment caused by anenvironmental aspect

%he environment includes! air, "ater, land! Flora ' fauna (animals, plants, humans)! natural resources and ra" materials! interactions bet"een any of these


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What "e do (Activity)

! Feature associated with activity(Aspect)

Influence on environment !Im"act#


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Relationship

A#*E+%CAUSE

Air Emissions(+ , - x)Energy .sage(/as and 0iesel).sed il 1ecycling#olid Waste /eneration

&2*A+%EFFECT

0egradation of Air 3uality1eduction in-atural 1esources+onservation of -atural1esources1eduction in 4andfill #pace


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56775 EnvironmentalAspects says

%he organisation shall establish andmaintain procedures to identify the

environmental aspects of activities,products, or services that it can controland over "hich it can be expected to

have an influence, to determine those"hich have, or can have, significant

impacts on the environment


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Establish and 2aintaina *rocedure

.sed fre8uently in the 56775 #tandard

Establish 9 develop ' implement

2aintain 9 $eep up:to:date ' accurate

*rocedure 9 se8uence of actions re8uired

to carry out a tas$


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Key: Identify theenvironmental aspects thatyour organization

- Can control , and

- Over which it can have aninfluence


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Aspects 0efinitions

What is meant by ;it can control


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56775 Environmental

Aspects also saysEnsure that environmental aspectsrelated to significant impacts areconsidered "hen settingenvironmental ob>ectiveseep the information up to date


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/enerate inventory ofaspects ' impacts

4ist all your activities, products ' services4ist their environmental aspects4ist the environmental impacts of these aspectsEvaluate the aspects (8uantify them)#elect the significant aspects (use a criteria)0efine E2*s for the significant aspects1evie" your ;Aspect &mpact 1egister< periodically 'before adding of an activity, product or service to youroperation


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0o not forget#upporting #ervices

Environmental aspects relate notonly to manufacturing processes,but also to activities by support

services such as! research and development! design and engineering! transport and storage of ra"

materials! storage and transport of product! pac$aging


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#upporting #ervices (+ontd)

! construction and maintenance! office "or$! laboratory! cafeteria! security and emergency response! clean:up services! purchasing, shipping@ receiving,

stores! contractor and supplier activities


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Aspects &dentification

Form a small team of interdisciplinarypersonnelave the list of activities, products ' services"ith you

.se a ;process approach< to identify aspects' impactsA plant round before this exercise helps1eferring to 2#0# during the exercise helps


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Solvent CleaningProcess

CleanParts

Air Emissions

Solvents

DirtySolventWaste

SolventContaminated

Rags

DirtyParts

!w d! I rec!"ni#e an a$%ect&


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Office WorkReports

Electricity,Paper,HeatingCooling

!oner Cartridges

Waste Paper,Solid Waste

Re"#ests

I w!r' in an O((ice,

!w d!e$ thi$ a%%)* t! +e&


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Process O#tp#ts$np#ts

Pr!ce$$ a%%r!ach

O%ners&ip

Reso#rces

Performance indicators

Controls


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Aspects &dentification (+ontd)

&n practice, each operation "ill have a moredetailed brea$do"n of tas$s, for each of "hichthere "ill be environmental aspects and impactsEnvironmental impacts need to be more detailedthan illustrated here, e g , specify type of "ater

contamination (B 0, suspended solids, p , toxicorganics, metals, etc ), and air (carbon dioxide,sulphur or nitrogen oxides, particulate, etc )


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What is a #ignificantEnvironmental &mpact?

ne "here the ris$ to the environmentis above a threshold level

Define a criteria for the threshold level

1is$ 9 *robability x #everity"here

! probability reflects fre8uency @ li$elihood! #everity reflects both magnitude and

public perception

Exampleonly


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&mpacts on

+onsider4and, "ater, airFlora fauna

#ociety (local community)&nterested parties*olitical climate

Foreign perspectives


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Factors to +onsiderEnvironmental +oncerns such as! The scale of the impact ! The severity of impact ! The probability of impact ! Duration of impact

Business +oncerns such as! Potential regulatory and legal e posure! Technology and cost of changing the impact ! !ffect of change on other activities and processes! "oncerns of interested parties

! !ffect on the public image of the organi#ation


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Assessment *rocedureBrain:storming method is best,

! Assemble a group of $no"ledgeableindividuals

! Brainstorm ideas on each criterion forconse8uence and fre8uency

! *ut each idea on a blac$board! +onsolidate ideas on each topic! Each person assigns a score (5:C)! .se mean score of the group in

significance table


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+oncluding %houghts&mportant points to remember are

ave a systematic process for identifying allenvironmental aspects and impacts+learly assign responsibility, authority, andaccountability for the process

&nclude! start:up and shut:do"n conditions! emergency situations! other types of potential abnormal conditions! previous activities at the site


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+oncluding %houghts (+ontd)

Additional points to remember are %hen assess ris$s to identify "hichare significant impacts and aspects

0efine criteria for assessingsignificance0efine fre8uency "ith "hichenvironmental aspects "ill berevie"ed (i e , $eep them up to date)


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+oncluding %houghts (+ontd)

2ore points to remember are1evie" environmental aspects"henever there is a change to anyra" material, process, product, or

activity 56775 does not specifydocumenting environmentalaspects and impacts, but in practice

it must be done


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