Structure Environmental Management

In any environmental management plan, it is essential to understand the pertinent quality criteria and their relationship to the variables that can be manipulated directly. The construction of mathematical models imposes the requirement of a logical framework that connects causes and effects, identifies all pertinent variables, and defines their interrelationships. Even if a particular technique never becomes practical, the discipline imposed by the logical structure is valuable in highlighting important relationships. 

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Section 4.3 is titled Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Frameworks for Sustainability. At the very basic level, a management system provides a structure that allows an organization to systematically manage a particular issue by ... 

EM AS versus ISO 14001 This section addresses the additional aspects of the European Union s EMAS system, which builds upon the classic environmental management system structure of ISO 14001. 

Schlosser, U. 1990. Environmental variation, life history attributes, and community structure in stream fishes implications for environmental management and assessment. Environ. Manage. 14(5) 621-628. 

The ISO 14000 standards provide industry with a structure for managing their environmental problems, which presumably will lead to better environmental performance. 

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 team should appoint a team leader, who will lead the audit team and coordinate the activities of all other team members. The plant manager or the environmental manager can be prospective candidates for team leader. It is recommended that a balanced audit team should be made up of three to six persons, including the team leader. This recommendation is based on typical industry structures but may be varied. In practice, the selection of the team leader and composition of the audit team will depend on the nature of the processes in the industry, scope of audit, and the scale of the industry. 

An environmental management system (EMS) is a management structure that addresses the longterm environmental impact of a company s products, services, and processes. An EMS framework should include the foUowing four characteristics ... 

The first pillar of risk assessment requires the use of state-of-the-art organic analysis techniques coupled with a unique environmental forensic and genetic source confirmation approach. This is done in order to (a) characterize the contaminant of interest, (b) determine its concentration, and (c) confirm its source. The second pillar of risk assessment and environmental management requires the use of a particular structure-activity relationship (SAR) approach, which can measure the effect of a particular contaminant once it is leached from road C R materials into the surrounding environment, predict the effects of compounds with similar structures, and model their fate and behavior. 

In addition to establishing structures for environmental management, BS 7750 has also established a verification system, including a register of certified environmental auditors. This is likely to be of competitive importance for companies certified within this system, once an international standard on environmental management is created. 

In this section the ISO/DIS 14001 (Draft International Standard) will be discussed, which specifies structural requirements of an environmental management system, and the directional guidelines of ISO/DIS 14004, which support the interpretation of the environmental norms of ISO 14001. 

A description of the company environmental management structure including staff, relationships, responsibilities and procedures of implementation of policies and goals in the organisation should be provided. This should include information on the environmental management system in place, programmes of improvement of environmental performance. Examples of reports providing this are National Westminster Bank Pic 1994, Daimler Benz 1995, Pharmacia 1994, and Baxter 1994. 

Technical solutions to environmental problems are being developed. Their application to real industrial structures requires a high degree of organisation. If environmental considerations are to be efficiently addressed they must be systematised. This is being addressed in several parts of the world, and most multinational and larger companies have already implemented some kind of environmental management system. 

Structure is compatible and harmonized with the ISO 9000 family of standards on quality management and the ISO 14000 family of standards on environmental management. Also, ZIO is written as a generic standard and patterned after the style of those standards. In this context, generic means that the standards can be applied to all ... 

The Application section (1.3) states that this standard is applicable to organizations of all sizes and types. As is the case in the ISO 9(X)0 and ISO 14(X)0 series of standards, there are no limitations or exclusions in ZIO by industry or business type or number of employees. ZIO applies to all employers. In the Introduction and in comments in the advisory column opposite Section 1.3, it is made clear that the structure of the standard is to allow integration with quality and environmental management systems. Doing so is a good and noble idea. 

In order to reduce the number and severity of major events companies need to develop and implement a Safety Management System, or SMS. The details of an SMS vary from company to company and agency to agency, but they all tend to have broadly the same structure and content. In the United States, the agency responsible for offshore safety, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), issued its Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) rule. The management elements of SEMS are shown in Table 1.2. 

In the United States, the response to The Cullen Report s recommendations was different. In the Gulf of Mexico there are thousands of platforms, many of them relatively simple, unmanned four-legged structures, often located in shallow water. To develop a Safety Case for each of these facilities would be impractical so it was decided to issue standards, generally under the auspices of the American Petroleum Institute. Safety management topics were collected under the umbrella of RP 75 (API 2004), which recommended that companies develop a Safety and Environmental Management Program, or SEMP. 

Decontamination of building structures and equipment containing polychlorinated biphenyls is rapidly becoming a major concern to environmental managers in industry and government. The most costly stumbling block to this type of decontamination and the focus of more technical attention than any other aspect of building decontamination is the decontamination of concrete. 

This model has been structured to fit with the international quality management system standard BS EN ISO 9000 and the equivalent environmental management system standard BS EN ISO 1400F. Applying the OHSAS model therefore offers the opportunity for companies who have opted for the quality management system to integrate environment and health and safety into one comprehensive management process. 

Once an environmental management system has been agreed, it needs to be implemented and arrangements put in place to ensure its continuing operation. These aspects can conveniently be split into seven components structure and responsibility training, awareness and competence communication environmental management system documentation document control operational control and emergency preparedness and response. 

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