Assessment phase

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Once management has made a commitment to the program and goals have been set, a program task force is established. The selection of a team leader will be dependent upon many factors including the ability to effectively interface with both the assessment team and management staff. 

The task force must be capable of identifying pollution reduction alternatives as well as be cognizant of inherent obstacles to the 

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Assessment Phase The assessment phase aims to collect data needed to identify and analyze pollution-prevention opportunities. Assessment of the facility s waste-reduction needs includes the examination of hazardous waste streams, process operations, and the identification of techniques that often promise the reduction of waste generation. Information is often derived from obsei vations made during a facihty walk-through, interviews with employees (e.g., operators, line workers), and review of site or regulatory records. One professional organization suggests the following information sources be reviewed, as available (Ref. 7) ... 

One of the key elements of the assessment phase of a pollution prevention program involves mass balance equations. These calculations are often referred to as material balances the calculations are performed via the consei vation law for mass. The details of this ofien-used law are described below. 

Phase ni Synthesis, benchmarking, and corrective actions THE PRE-ASSESSMENT (PHASE I)... 

Using a single evaluation tool or methodology throughout the baseline assessment helps ensure consistency among evaluations conducted at different facilities and by different individuals. In addition, remember that you will need to consolidate all the information you gather during the assessment phase, and it s far easier to do so if you have used a common method. 

Maximum usefulness and focus on end use. Remember that the PSM assessment phase is a means to an end the design and installation of a workable PSM system within your company. This means you may want to gather information that might otherwise not be included in comparable studies, audits, or reviews, e.g., data concerning resource allocations and requirements. If so, these considerations should be factored into both selection of your assessment method and the specific design of the tools you select. 

Buy-in" of facility management. Cooperation of facility-based staff and managers strongly influences the effectiveness of baseline PSM assessments. The assessment phase may be the first visible manifestation of your company s PSM initiative at the local level, and should be properly understood by those participating—especially those whose PSM activities and programs are under review. An assessment method with which local personnel are at least somewhat familiar, conducted by professionals whose skills they respect, will more likely gain buy-in and cooperation. 

Get buy-in from local managers. Cooperation of local management and staff will make the whole project much easier and the assessment phase will be the first working contact local staff will have with the project. It is important to set off on the right foot. Using assessment approaches, such as auditing, that are familiar to local staff and are conducted by staff they know of and respect help ensure buy-in. 

During this assessment phase, deliberately look for programs and elements. The most likely sources are Operating Manuals/Procedures, PSM, and ESH Manuals, and PSM and ESH specialists. In each case, your assessment team should seek out descriptions of the objectives of each... 

The level of effort estimates given in Exhibit 4-1 are for time used by the project team. Design time is an estimate of the number of person days that will be needed to develop a fully defined system program/element or management process starting with the data collected during the assessment phase. 

Gal, L.P. 2007. Sambaa K e Candidate Protected Area, Non-Renewable Resource Assessment (phase I) - Petroleum. Northwest Territories Geocscience Office, NWT Open File 2007-02. 

By contrast, the nature of certain accident scenarios could prove to be quite sensitive to some design parameters. It should not be ruled out during the risk assessment phase, especially during detailed design, that discoveries during consequence analysis could lead to the revision of the design basis of the facility or some equipment or components. 

Only three of the stated objectives (Fig. 12.8-2) are relevant for this assessment phase. They are (1) air purification performance (50 %), reliability (25 %) and cost (25 %). In the absence of hard data, the members of the project team were... 

EPA (1979) TSCA Chemical assessment series preliminary risk assessment phase i benzidine, it s congeners and their derivative dyes and pigments. US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC, EPA-560/11-80-019... 

The inventory and impact assessment phases of LCA have different end results. The inventory component quantifies energy use, the masses of inputs, and the mass loadings of products, wastes, and releases on a systemwide basis. In contrast, the extrapolation of these mass-loading data generates a diverse spectrum of qualitative... 

Any actions taken as a result of the preliminary assessment phase can result in a reduction or elimination of toxicity, negating the need for further investigation. In addition, at this early stage of the TRE, management attention will often lead to subtle operational changes, which in turn, may result in a reduction or elimination of acute lethality without a clearly identified cause (Ausley et al., 1998). 

The assessment phase offers us the tools to verify that the data are truly relevant and valid. The assessment phase includes Task 6—Data Evaluation and Task 7—Data... 

Planning is the most critical phase of the data collection process as it creates a foundation for the success of the implementation and assessment phases. Two major tasks of the planning phase, as shown in Figure 2.1, are Task 1—Data Quality Objectives Development and Task 2—Sampling and Analysis Plan Preparation. The SAP summarizes the project objectives and requirements for environmental chemical data collection. 

The planning team will use similar rationale for assigning tolerable decision error rates in an opposite scenario illustrated in Figure 2.4. In the planning phase, these probabilities will be factored into statistical tests for the calculation of the proper number of samples to be collected. In the assessment phase, they will be used in a statistical verification of the attainment of the action level. 

Qualitative and quantitative acceptance criteria for the PARCC parameters are derived in the planning phase. Whether they are specific statistical values or represent accepted standards and practices, they must be always selected based on the project objectives and be appropriate for the intended use of the data. The DQI acceptance criteria are documented in the SAP and serve as standards for evaluating data quality and quantity in the assessment phase of data collection process. The primary DQIs are established through the analysis of field and laboratory QC samples and by adhering to accepted standards for sampling and analysis. 

To complete the planning phase, the project team will develop a series of documents that summarize the outcome of the DQO process and describe the planned field operations. The SAP, prepared to address all of the data collection requirements, will establish the performance standards for the project implementation and assessment phases. The planned field operations may be documented in the Work Plan other planning documents may include the Health and Safety Plan, the Contractor QC Plan, and the Environmental Protection Plan. 

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