ISO 14000 Training session

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TRAINING SESSION ISO 14000 Environmental System for the Sugar Industry Mr. Muhammad Saleem Raza ISO 9001/14001 Consultant

Environmental Management System : 

Environmental Management System Introduction EMS Vs. QMS EMS Cycle Key Definitions Contents Environmental Policy Environmental Aspects Objectives & Targets

Environmental Management System : 

Environmental Management Program Structure & Responsibility Communication Training, Awareness & Competence Operational Control Emergency Preparedness & Response Monitoring & Measurement Non Conformance & Corrective Action Records Audit Management Review Environmental Management System

INTRODUCTION : 

INTRODUCTION Organizations world-wide are showing concern for environmental performance. ISO 14000 is for organizations that wish to: Implement, maintain and improve an environmental management system; Assure themselves of their conformance with the stated environmental policy; and Demonstrate such conformance to other.

EMS Vs. QMS: 

EMS Vs. QMS ISO 14000 is a System designed to mitigate the environmental impacts of an organization on its environment; The system consists of a quality policy, environmental program, EMR, documentation, monitoring, controlling & improving the quality of the environment; The community benefits from its implementation; and It is an organizational system standard applicable to all types of firms/organizations. ISO 9000 is a system designed to improve the quality of a product or service; The system consists of a quality policy, quality plan, MR, documentation, monitoring, controlling & improving the quality of the product or service; The customer benefits from its implementation; and It is an organizational system standard applicable to all types of firms/organizations.

EMS CYCLE: 

EMS CYCLE Continual Improvement Environmental Policy Planning Implementation & Operation Checking & Corrective Action Management Review

KEY DEFINITIONS: 

KEY DEFINITIONS Environment: Surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, humans & their interrelation. Environmental Aspect: Element of an organization’s activities, products or services that can interact with the environment. Environmental Impact: Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization’s activities, products or services.

ISO 14001 CONTENTS: 

ISO 14001 CONTENTS 4.2 Environmental Policy 4.3 Planning 4.3.1 Environmental Aspects 4.3.2 Legal Requirements 4.3.3 Objectives & Targets 4.3.4 Environmental Program 4.4 Implementation & Operation 4.4.1 Structure & Responsibility 4.4.2 Training, Awareness & Competence 4.4.3 Communication 4.4.4 EMS Documentation 4.4.5 Document Control 4.4.6 Operational Control 4.4.7 Emergency Preparedness & Response 4.2 Checking & Corrective Action 4.5.1 Monitoring & Measurement 4.5.2 Nonconformance & Corrective Action 4.5.3 Records 4.5.4 EMS Audit 4.6 Management Review

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: 

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Continual Improvement Prevention of Pollution Environmental Regulations Objectives & Targets Understood by All Environmental Impacts

SAMPLE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: 

SAMPLE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The ABC Company is built on the idea of responsible corporate citizenship. Directly and indirectly, we touch the lives of billions of people around the world, and our responsibility to them includes conducting our business in ways that protect and preserve the environment. In fulfilling this responsibility, the ABC Company and its subsidiaries adhere to the following fundamental principles: 1.We conduct our operations in compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations. Even in the absence of governmental regulation, we operate in an environmental responsible manner. 2. We minimize the environmental impact our operations, products and packages through research and the application of new technology. 3. We minimize the discharge of waste materials into the environment by utilizing responsible pollution control practices. 4. We support efforts to understand and address the problems of solid waste management. We are committed to both reducing and recycling the solid waste generated in our own facilities and to helping communities where we operate implement recycling and sound waste management system.

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS : 

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS The organization shall establish and maintain procedures to identify the environmental aspects of its activities, products or services that it can control and over which it can be expected to have an influence, in order to determine those which have or can have significant impacts on the environment. Raw Trimming Liming Fat Liquoring Hide Preservation Water Consumption Tanning

OBJECTIVES & TARGETS: 

OBJECTIVES & TARGETS Environmental Objective: Overall environmental goal, arising from the environmental policy, that an organization sets itself to achieve and which is quantified where practicable. Environmental Target: Detailed performance requirement, quantified where practicable, applicable to the organization or parts thereof, that arises from the environmental objectives and that needs to be set and met in order to achieve those objectives.

SAMPLE OBJECTIVES & TARGETS: 

SAMPLE OBJECTIVES & TARGETS Objectives Targets Benifits Reduce unwanted portions from raw trimming Train labor to properly trim hides Environmental: reduce solid waste Cost: untreated raw trimming can be sold to chicken feed and glue industries Reduce the amount of chloride expelled in the effluent Introduce de-salting techniques, salted hides are cleaned/shaked mechanically or manually Environmental: reduced chromium in wastewater Cost: lot weight is reduce, which reduces chemical consumption in the soaking & liming processes.

Environmental Management Program: 

Environmental Management Program The management shall establish and maintain programs for achieving its objectives and targets. It shall include: 1. Designation of responsibility for achieving objectives & targets at each relevant function and level of the organization; and 2. The mean and time frame by which they are to be achieved.

Sample Environmental Program: 

Sample Environmental Program Environmental Objectives: Reduce amount of wet blue trimmings by 100% 30-03-01. Target 1: Train labor by properly time hides Action Plan: Develop & Implement Training Program for Labor Responsibility: Technical Manager Budget: Rs. ? ? Saving expected: Rs.? ? Per Annum Completion date: 30-03-01 Report to: EMR

Structure & Responsibility : 

Structure & Responsibility Roles, responsibility and authorities shall be defined, documented and communicated in order to facilitate effective environmental management. Management shall provide resources essential to the implementation and control of the environmental management system. Resources include human resources and specialized skills, technology and financial resources. The organization’s top management shall appoint a specific management representative who irrespective of other responsibilities, shall have defined roles, responsibilities and authority.

COMMUNICATION: 

COMMUNICATION With regard to its environmental aspects and environmental management system, the organization shall establish and maintain procedures for: Internal Communication External Communication

Training, Awareness & Competence: 

Training, Awareness & Competence Training Identify training needs, develop training programs, validate effective training. Awareness Importance of conformance, environmental impacts, roles & responsibilities, consequences of departure from procedures. Competence Staff to have appropriate education, training and/or experience.

OPERATIONAL CONTROL: 

OPERATIONAL CONTROL The organization shall identify those operations and activities that are associated with the identified significant environmental aspects in line with its policy, objectives, including maintenance, in order to ensure that they are carried out under specified conditions

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE : 

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE The organization shall establish and maintain procedures to identify potential for and respond to accidents and emergency situations, and for preventing and mitigating the environmental impacts that may be associated with them . The organization shall review and revise, where necessary, its emergency preparedness and response procedures, in particular, after the occurrence of accidents or emergency situations

SAMPLE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & POSSIBLE RESPONSE : 

SAMPLE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & POSSIBLE RESPONSE Emergency Response Prevention Soaking- workers slipping due to working in wet environment First Aid treatment available Develop procedure to routinely wipe down floors to reduce slippage Liming and Unhairing- inhalation of hydrogen sulfide gas First Aid treatment, take worker to hospital if serious Develop procedure to have workers wear face masks during process Pickling- a worker has skin burns due to high amount of chloride being used First Aid treatment, take worker to hospital if serious Develop procedure to have workers wear protective clothing & gloves during process

Monitoring & Measurement : 

Monitoring & Measurement The organization shall establish and maintain documented procedures to monitor and measure, on a regular basis, the key characteristic of its operations and activities that can have a significant impact on the environment. This shall include the recording of information to track performance relevant operational controls and conformance with the organization’s environmental objectives and targets.

Nonconformance & Corrective Action: 

Nonconformance & Corrective Action This clause is similar to ISO 9000’s corrective and preventive action. Incase the company is implementing ISO 9000, it can use the same procedure for ISO 14000. Handle & investigate nonconformance Mitigate any impacts caused Initiate & complete corrective/preventive action Eliminate cause of nonconformance Record & implement any changes to procedures

Records: 

Records The organization shall establish and maintain procedures for identification, maintenance and disposition of environmental records. These records shall include training records and the results of audits and reviews. This clause is similar to ISO 9000’s clause on control of Quality Record.

EMS Audit: 

EMS Audit The organization shall establish and maintain programs and procedures for periodic environmental management system audits to be carried out, in order to; determine whether or not the environmental management system: Conforms to planned arrangements for environmental managements including the requirements for this standard, and 2. Has been properly implemented and maintained Provide information on the results of audits to management

Management Review: 

Management Review Review EMS at appropriate intervals to ensure suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. Changes to Policy Changes to Objectives Audit Results Continual Improvement Changing Circumstance

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