Management systems, existing, assessment

Experience indicates that in a typical company there will be considerable overlap between and within the PSM and ESH and quality management systems. Your work to secure support (Chapter 2) will have already demonstrated many of these overlaps. The detailed assessment of the existing management systems described in this chapter will provide a comprehensive understanding of the overlaps. 

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By conducting the assessment against these two sets of criteria you can accomplish two objectives identifying the existence and current status of your company s PSM management systems, and evaluating them against good practice. 

The laboratory should ensure the establishment of an effective and efficient internal audit process to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the quality management system. The internal audit process provides an independent tool for obtaining objective evidence that the existing requirements have been met, since the internal audit evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the laboratory. 

The primary purpose of this Report is to present NCRP s recommendations on classification of hazardous wastes. The Report is directed at a multidisciplinary audience with different levels of technical understanding in the fields of radiation and chemical risk assessment and radioactive and chemical waste management. Anew hazardous waste classification system is proposed that differs from the existing classification systems for radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes in two fundamental respects. First, hazardous waste would be classified based on considerations of health risks to the public that arise from disposal of waste. Hazardous waste would not be classified based, for example, on its source. Second, the classification system would apply to any hazardous waste, and separate classification systems for radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes would not be retained. In the proposed system, waste would be classified based only on its properties, and the same rules would apply in classifying all hazardous wastes. 

Waste and energy audits are performed to identify existing problems. In the next four subsections, new approaches are presented that focus on prevention through Ufe cycle design, fife cycle assessment, production planning models with environmental considerations, and environmental management systems. 

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