Environmental organizational structure

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (1996). Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking, Proposed Organizational Structure and Process, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Research Triangle Park, NC, June. 

Sustainability is not widely recognized as a core business process or as an important element of stakeholder commitment. Many key industry stakeholders, notably customers and investors, wield considerable financial impact. Therefore, many aspects of sustainability warrant the same level of organizational structure, oversight, and governance currently afforded environmental compliance or other control functions. 

When auditing a site or a plant, we rely on clearly defined criteria to produce an environmental and safety profile. Separate audits are conducted to determine the occupational health conditions at a facility. A site s performance profile covers both hard facts such as accident numbers and emission levels, as well as soft facts such as effective organizational structures, defined responsibilities, and a... 

Organizational structure wherein the environmental management group is unaware or knows very little about the production sector s activities, i.e., no proper communication channel between different sectors in an industry or between different departments at a facility. 

The employees who perform hazardous waste management tasks are usually members of the environmental health and safety group or department who run the program and who also provide the required safety oversight. The organizational structure for this type of operation might... 

In drafting a MOC system, responsibility levels must be defined and be in accord with an entity s organizational structure. Tliis is a highly important step in developing a MOC system. In an entity where even minor changes in a process are considered critical as respect to employee injury and illness potential, possible environmental contamination, and the quality and safety of the product, the levels of responsibility can be many. 

In fact, when President Richard Nixon s Advisory Council on Executive Organization recommended a structure for a new "Environmental Protection Administration" in 1970, it focused almost entirely on the organizational structure and function needed for pollution control and pesticide regulation [6]. The mission of the soon-to-be Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had no part in evaluating or regulating most of the 62,000 chemicals then in commerce, either as raw materials or in products other than pesticides, drugs, or food additives. 

Introduction Environmental auditing is a systematic, documented, periodic and objective review by a regulated entity of facility operations and practices related to meeting environmental requirements. Private sector enviromnental audits of facUi-ties have been conducted for several years and have taken a variety of forms, in part to accommodate unique organizational structures and circumstances. Nevertheless, effective environmental audits appear to have certain discernible elements in common with other kinds of audits. Standards for internal audits have been documented extensively. The elements outlined below draw heavily on two of these documents Compendium of Audit Standards ( 1983, Walter Willbom, American Society for Quality... 

One of the ways in which Environmental Chemistry Fundamentals presents chemistry in a reader-friendly manner is through a somewhat unique organizational structure. In the first few pages of Chapter 1, the reader is presented with a mini-course in chemistry that consists of the most basic concepts and terms needed to really begin to understand chemistry. To study chemistry, it is necessary to know a few essential things— what an atom is, what is meant by elements, chemical formulas, chemical bonds, molecular mass. With these terms defined in very basic... 

This manual provides up-to-date and highly authoritative overviews of electrochemical sensors and biosensors as applied to environmental targets. The book surveys the entire field of such sensors and covers not only the principles of their design but their practical implementation and application. Of particular value is the organizational structure. The later chapters cover the full range of environmental analytes ensuring the book will be invaluable to environmental scientists as well as analytical chemists. 

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