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CHAPTER – 1
PROCEDURE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
ASPECTS, SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RISKS & OPPORTUNITIES

1.0 PURPOSE
The purpose of this procedure is to establish a system for:
i) Identification and evaluation of aspects of organization’s activities, products and services
under it’s control and that it can influence in order to determine those which may have a
impacts on the environment and also considering planned or new developments.
ii) Identification of significant environmental aspects.
iii) Identification of Risks & opportunities resulting from environmental aspects, compliance
obligations, internal or external issues , other needs and expectations of interested parties
and Life Cycle Perspective.
2.0 SCOPE

All the departments of BSP as defined in annexure-1of EMS manual No. EMSM/MR/**.

3.0 REFERENCE

I. IS/ISO 14001:2015; clause 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3

II. Chapter-6 of EMS Manual: EMSM/MR/**

III. Chapter-3&4 of the departmental manual EMSDM/**/**

4.0 DEFINITION

Abnormal: Abnormal operation of an activity is the period when the impacts get severe and
adverse and is different from what is normal.

Environmental Aspects: Element of an organization’s activities or products or services that

can interact with the environment. A significant environmental aspect has or can have a
significant environmental impact.

Risk: effect of uncertainty

Risks and Opportunities: potential adverse effects (threats) and potential beneficial effects
(opportunities)

Emergency: An activity that happens suddenly or unexpectedly and has enormous environmental
impact that needs immediate action.

Legislation : All applicable environmental acts and rules which the Shop subscribes.

Normal : Normal operation of an activity is the period when the impacts are observed
continuously.

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Other Business Concerns:

CREP Requirement - Requirements of Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection,

Requirement of CPCB regarding establishment of infrastructure for environmental monitoring &
measurement, activities for fulfillment of SAIL environmental vision.

5.0 RESPONSIBILITY

HOD’s of department concerned has overall responsibility for implementation of this procedure.
MR is responsible for coordinating with respective HOD for identifying the environmental
aspects. HOD with respective Core Group (CG) shall be responsible for identifying the
environmental aspects in their area of activity and evaluating the same for their possible impacts
on environment during normal, abnormal and emergency situations. They are also responsible
for identification of Risks & opportunities resulting from environmental aspects, compliance
obligations, internal or external issues, needs and expectations of interested parties and Life Cycle
Perspective.

MR together with the CG shall be responsible for evaluation of environmental aspects and
identification of significant environmental aspects, Risks & opportunities.

6.0 PROCEDURE

6.1 HOD concerned shall form the Core Group. The Core Group shall identify the environmental
aspects of the activities, product, and services of each section together with associated
environmental impacts. Each environmental impact of the aspect is evaluated separately

The Core Group shall also identify Risks & opportunities resulting from environmental aspects,
compliance obligations, internal or issues, needs and expectations of interested parties and Life
Cycle Perspective.

6.2 The core group shall also quantify the environmental impacts on the basis of probability of
occurrence, duration of occurrence, time of detection, area of influence, legislation, Other
Business Concerns (OBC) and severity expressed as effect on receptor as described in
Annexure-1

The core group shall also quantify Risks & opportunities resulting from environmental aspects,
compliance obligations, internal or issues, needs and expectations of interested parties and Life
Cycle Perspective.

6.3 The Core group shall compile all the environmental aspects associated quantified impacts, Risks
& opportunities.

6.4 The MR/HOD’s shall review the list of aspects/impacts, Risks & opportunities after:

a) Three years
b) Any technological change/process modification
c) Any change in the capacity/expansion
d) Any planned or new developments.
e) Any new issues or needs and expectations of interested parties

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In case of any of the above this shall again be carried out as per clause No. 6.1 to 6.3 above, for
amendments.

6.5 MR along with CG members shall fix cut off score for identification of significant aspects, risks.
Moreover, all legal violations and emergency situation are considered significant.

6.6 The HOD concerned shall evaluate all aspects based on view of the interested parties

6.7 The MR & HOD’s shall then prioritize the significant environmental aspects and shall
consider the same in either in setting environmental objectives & targets under the EMP or
prepare an operational control procedure.

6.8 The MR shall maintain the up-to date list of environmental aspects, significant environmental
aspects & risks.

7.0 RECORDS
Aspect & Impact analysis and list of significant aspects, risks& Opportunities

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Annexure - 1
ASPECT / IMPACT RANKING CRITERION

Environmental aspects and associated impacts shall be identified for each sections of by the Core group
members. The criterion for rating the environmental aspects and their associated impacts is based on the
scores of the following five factors:-

1) Probability of occurrence (P)

2) Duration of Occurrence (D)
3) Time of detection (T)
4) Area of Influence (A)
5) Severity expressed as Effect on Receptors (S)

1. Probability of Occurrence (P):

The aspect shall be rated for Probability of Occurrence (P) as per Table-1 below,

Table-1
Rating Probability of
Occurrence (P)
1 Insignificant
2 Low
3 Moderate
4 High
5 Very high

2. Duration of Occurrence (D): The aspect shall be rated for Duration of Occurrence (D) as per
Table-2 below.

Table-2
Rating Duration (D)
1 Up to one hour
2 Up to one shift
3 Up to Two shift
4 Up to One day
5 More than a day

3. Time of detection (T): The aspect shall be rated for time of detection (T) as per Table-3 below.

Table-3
Rating Time of Detection (T)
1 Up to one hour
2 Up to one shift
3 Up to Two shift
4 Up to One day
5 More than a day

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4. Area of Influence (A): The impact shall be rated on Area of Influence (A) as per Table-4 below.

Table-4

Rating Area of influence (A)

1 Within 10 m
2 Within 20 m
3 Within the shop
4 Within Plant
5 Beyond Plant boundary

5. Severity expressed as Effect on Receptors (S): Based on impact identified the severity on specific
receptor(S) to be evaluated as per Table-5 below.

Table-5
Rating
Low Medium High Very High Severity as Effect on
receptors (S)
1 2 3 4 Human
1 2 3 4 Air
1 2 3 4 Water
1 2 3 4 Land
1 2 3 4 Flora & Fauna
1 2 3 4 Resource depletion

6. Identification of Environmental Aspects and Associated Impacts

The identification of environmental aspects and associated impacts for each section together with
their rating shall be carried out as per Table-6 below. In addition the indication of legal and other
business requirement shall also to be recorded in the last column.

Table 6 Section:

Severity as effect on receptors

Sl. N/ PxDxTxAxS L/
No. Activity Aspect A/ Impact (S)
P D T A Total score OBC
E E E EW EL EF RD
H A
1 1 1 1 1

N - Normal P - Probability of occurrence EH - Effect on Human

A - Abnormal D - Duration of occurrence EA - Effect on Air
E - Emergency A - Area of influence EW - Effect on Water
S - Severity T – Time of detection EL - Effect on Land
L – Legal violation EF – Effect on flora and fauna RD – Resource depletion
OBC - Other Business concerns

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7. Calculation of total score:

Based on the above criteria the total score of the environmental aspect and associated impact shall
be calculated as follows.

i) The scores for Probability of Occurrence (P), Duration of Occurrence (D), Time of
detection (T), Area of Influence (A) & Severity as effect on receptors (S) shall be
considered.

ii) The total score shall be calculated by multiplying (P), (D), (T), (A) & (S) as follows:

Total Score = P * D * T *A* S

8. Identification of Environmental Aspects and Associated Impacts based on Life Cycle Analysis
(LCA) Perspective:

The identification of environmental aspects for the activities resulting in generation of solid
wastes (Hazardous/Non-Hazardous) shall also be carried-out based on LCA perspective. The
rating shall be carried-out as per the Table-7 below

Table-7

S.no Activity Type of Waste Generated Quantity of Waste disposal Total Impact
(A) waste (C) score
generated A*B*C
(B)
Hazardous Non- Recycled/ Disposed
Hazardous Sold in Landfill
1 1 1 1

The scoring shall be as below

Waste Nature Classification Score

/Quantity &
Disposal practices
If Hazardous 10*
A Non-Hazardous 1
B Waste quantity/Year 1 for every 100 T generated
C Waste recycled/Sold 0.1 if 100% recycled/sold & 1
if no recycling/selling
Waste disposed in the Landfill 5
*A Hazardous waste is a legal aspect, hence automatically becomes significant

8. Ranking:

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Ranking of environmental aspects and associated impacts shall be done on the basis of the Total
Score calculated as per the Table No. 6 &7 and corresponding details given Clause above.
 Legal requirement and emergency situations shall also be considered significant.
 All the environmental aspects whose impact score based on LCA perspective is more
than 10 shall be considered significant

The identification of signification aspect shall be carried out as per table -8 below after arriving at
the cut-off score for categorization as significant aspect.

Table-8

Shop:
Cut-off Score:

Sl Reference Remarks
No Section Activity Aspect N/A/E Impact Total EMP of
Score No operation
control
procedure

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Annexure - 2
RISK & OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATION CRITERION

1. From the list of aspects & significant aspects, those aspects which can be classified as
risks to be identified.
2. Any other issue resulting out of internal/external issue or interested party expectation
,SWOT analysis identified by the departments in Chapter-1 of the departmental manual
(EMSDM/**/**may be classified as risk to be identified.
3. All the identified risks are evaluated based on the Risk assessment/scoring
4. The identification of Risk shall be carried out as per Table -9 & Evaluation of Risks is
done as per Table-10 below.
5. After the identification of risks, the Critical risks are to determined based on the cut-off
score decided by the core-group of the department.
6. All the Critical risks shall be documented as per Table-11
7. Some of the opportunities identified under SWOT analysis may be pursued by
programs/action plans for realizing the opportunity for achieving the intended outcome of
the EMS as per Table-12 below.

Table-9

S.no Risk Category of Risk Risk Evaluation Risk Score

statement* A SA II EI IP LCA LA SI LD (LA*SI*LD)

Category of Risk:

A : Aspect
SA: Significant Aspect
II : Internal Issue
EI : External issue
IP : Interested party expectation/concern

Risk Evaluation:

LA: Likelihood of Occurrence

SI : Severity of Impact
LD: Likelihood of detection

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Table-10

Likelihood of Occurrence Severity of Impact Likelihood of

Detection
Criteria Rank Criteria Rank Criteria Rank

Very High 5 Very High 5 Very 1

High
High 4 High 4 High 2

Moderate 3 Moderate 3 Moderate 3

Low 2 Low 2 Low 4

Very Low 1 Very Low 1 Very 5

Low
None 0 None 0 None 0

Table-11

Shop:
Risk Cut-off Score:

Sl No Risk Statement* Remarks

Total Risk Control
Score Plan/Procedure
reference

*A risk statement addresses the action & likely consequence from the identified significant
aspects, internal, external, interested party concerns, weaknesses & threats

Table-12

Opportunities for improvement:

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Sl No Opportunity statement Program for achieving Remarks

the intended benefit
1

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