Environmental Management System (EMS) Development For Pork Producers September 13, 2001 Barb Satler Pork EMS Project Coordinator NC Division of Pollution.

Environmental Management System (EMS) Development

For Pork Producers

September 13, 2001Barb SatlerPork EMS Project CoordinatorNC Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance

What is an EMS? Systematic way of managing an

organization’s environmental affairs Focused on Continual Improvement of

System Addresses immediate and long-term impact

of an organization’s products, services and processes on the environment.

A tool to improve environmental performance

Based on Plan-Do-Check-Act Model (PDCA)

Policy

Planning

Implementation

CheckingCorrective Action

ManagementReview

EMS Model – Plan, Do, Check, Act

What you hope to achieve:• Interested in improving our farm from an environmental standpoint

• Help identify our strengths and weaknesses

• To achieve a documented account of our efforts

• Enhance my planning… serve as a tool or reminder to me and my employees and help us avoid any negative impacts to the environment

• To obtain and maintain a safe and environmentally friendly work place

• To prevent accidents

• Help identify areas of need

• Learn about operating efficiently and environmentally sound

• The EMS plan can be a positive action

• To improve

• Help us become better at managing environmental risks

ISO 14001 Model – Required Elements

Env. Policy 4.2 Document control 4.4.5

Env. Aspects 4.3.1 Operational control 4.4.6

Legal and other req. 4.3.2 Emergency preparedness and response 4.4.7

Obj. and targets 4.3.3 Monitoring and measurement 4.5.1

Env. Mgmt. Program 4.3.4 Corrective/preventive action 4.5.2

Structure and Responsibility 4.4.1 Records 4.5.3

Training, awareness, and competence 4.4.2

EMS audit 4.5.4

Communication 4.4.3 Management Review 4.6

EMS documentation 4.4.4

Policy Statement Legal Requirements Identification of Significant

Environmental Impacts Development of Objectives and Targets Implementation Plan to Meet Obj. and

Targets Training Management Review

How you meet elements is up to you.

Key EMS Elements/Framework

Policy Statement “The EMS Driver” Management’s declaration of

commitment to the environment Policy Statement

– 3 Main Elements (Big 3) Commitment to Compliance Commitment to Prevention of Pollution, and Commitment to Continual Improvement

Available to Interested Parties

BS. Inc.

EMS

It is the policy of BS

Inc. to meet or

exceed all

environmental rules

and regulations,

manage our

activities in a

manner that

minimizes or

prevents pollution

and to continually

improve our

environmental

management.

Setting legal framework for the EMS identify and access legal requirements

(federal, state, local) keep up-to-date communicate to the right people

Legal Environmental Requirements

• Consider:– Air emissions– Solid/hazardous waste– Contamination of land– Noise, vibration and odor– Water effluents– Land use, energy use, water use– Raw material and resource use– Positive environmental issues

In order to identify significant environmental impacts a facility must first look at all its Aspects and Impacts

Examples-

Activity: Cooling

Aspect: Misting

Impact: consumes water, may add to lagoon waste

Aspects and Impacts

Aspects and ImpactsActivity: Waste ManagementAspect: ApplicationImpact to Air: Odor, possible air toxics, Impact to Water: nutrient concerns (potential excess of

nitrates, phosphorus and heavy metals) potential pathogens introduced to fresh water. potential groundwater contamination

Impact to Natural Resources: used as fertilizer, diesel or electricity consumed

Impact to Land, potential bacteria and nutrient concerns (Noting that required Nutrient Management plan reduces nutrient concerns)

The organization shall establish and maintain procedures to identify its environmental aspects in order to determine those which can have a significant impact on the environment.

Rank aspects and impacts in order to assess their significance

Significant Aspects

Consider issues such as: duration of impact zone of impact probability of occurrence or likelihood - frequent, likely,

possible, rarely, unlikely severity of impact - catastrophic, severe, moderate, minor

From Environmental Concerns such as: regulatory/legal exposure health risk/people resource conservation

To Business Concerns such as: effect on the public image/community resource savings- people, time, money cost recovery period equipment/facility

Significance Scoring --Prioritize

Objectives &Targets- Continual Improvement

Establish and maintain environmental objectives and targets.

Can include commitment to:– reduce waste – reduce or eliminate release/spill of a

pollutant– design product/operations to minimize

environmental impact in production, use, and disposal.

Objectives &Targets Keep objectives simple, flexible, and

measurable. Be realistic. Considerations:

– legal and other requirements– significant env. aspects– technological options– financial requirements– operational requirements– business requirements– views of interested parties

ExampleObjective Decrease food spillage in finishing

house by 80% by 2-15-02

Example continued.

Targets Begin monitoring and measuring amount of spillage

by 10-10-01 Verify cause of excess spillage by 11-01-01 Develop plan to reduce spillage by 11-15-01 Implement and test spillage reduction plan by 12-

16-01 Verify spillage decrease by 2-01-01 Make changes/corrective actions as necessary Continue monitoring and measuring as per

environmental management program plan.

Environmental Mgmt. Program

The EMP describes how the organization’s objectives and targets will be achieved

Includes who, when and how Includes current and new activities

Implementation and Operation

Training, awareness, & competence Communication (internal/external) Env. Mgmt System Documentation and

control where needed Operational control (ex. maintenance) Emergency preparedness

and response

Monitoring and Measuring –How are you doing?

Establish procedures to monitor and measure key operations that can have a significant impact on the environment.

Track how well the system

is working Analyze root causes of problems

Are you meeting your EMS requirements?

How will you run an EMS audit program?

EMS Internal Auditing

Management Review Collect information to evaluate EMS Review EMS to ensure its continuing

effectiveness Consider changes – continual improvement

Other stuff… Don’t worry! Contract info. Please let us know what you need Remember- the EMS is yours.

Getting Started Set meeting time(s) and dates, through

June Set agenda/actions for first meeting-

include work plan/timeline development, draft policy statement, roles and responsibilities, issues that need clarification.

DPPEA offers free on-site EMS

assistance and training DPPEA EMS web site

http://www.p2pays.org/iso/index.htm Barb Satler (919) 715-6519 or 800-763-0136 [email protected]

919-715-6506 or 919-715-6527

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