Environmental Management

System

Awareness Training
Environment
 Interdependence of Earth’s Living and
Non-living Systems
Our planet consists of a great variety of living and non-living
systems related through the environmental changes.
Changing any part of the natural environment can cause dramatic
effects on other parts of the environment.
METAL
THEMANAGEMENT SYSTEM
NEED FOR THE ENVIRONMETAL
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
 Pollution
• Pollution is the concentration of any
material or energy form that is
ultimately harmful to humans.
• Pollution is classified as either;
• Ground pollution
• Air pollution
• Water pollution
 Land Pollution
• Solid wastes include garbage, refuse, sludge
products from agriculture, forestry, and mining
that all can pollute the land.
• Most of these wastes are disposed by burying in
landfills.
• Hazardous wastes are those that are potentially
dangerous to humans.
• Soil erosion from overgrazing, deforestation,
irrigation and cultivation can disturb the balance
between living things and the soil.
Ground / soil contamination
 Water Pollution
• Water pollution is anything that makes the
water unfit, harmful or undesirable for use.
• Types of pollutants:
• Organic pollution – sewage
• Inorganic pollution – biodegradable
• Thermal pollution - heat
• Radioactive substances –
• Abnormal concentration of organisms –
• Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria
• Eutrophication = increased phosphates and nitrates
provide nutrients for increased algae growth.
• Concentration of pollutants
Groundwater pollutants and their flow
paths into aquifers
 Air pollution
• Release of harmful materials into the
atmosphere.
• Problems associated with air pollution
include:
• Health problems
• Acid rain
• Ozone depletion
• Global warming
• Pollutants are either gases or particulates
 Some environmental issues
Chemical
ChemicalPollution
Pollution Reduction
ReductionininBiodiversity
Biodiversity

Climate
ClimateChange
Change
Air
AirPollution
Pollution Atmospheric
AtmosphericOzone
OzoneDepletion
Depletion

Erosion Noise
Erosionof
ofCoastal
CoastalDefences
Defences Noise Contaminated
ContaminatedLand
Land

Acidification
Acidificationof
ofwater
watersupply
supply Contamination
Contaminationof
ofDrinking
DrinkingWater
Water
Deforestation
Deforestation

Transport
Transport&&Congestion
Congestion Waste
WasteDisposal
Disposal

GM
GMCrops
Crops
Global
GlobalWarming
Warming Urban
UrbanAir
AirQuality
Quality

Fossil
FossilFuels
FuelsDepletion
Depletion
No Comments
Our actions today ….
Result tomorrow
 Environmental Issues

 Global Warming  Water Pollution

 Acid Rain (e.g:seas, reveres,
 Smog ground water..etc.)
 Ozone Depletion  Soil Contamination
 Deforestation  Hazardous Waste
 Garbage
 Love Canal Niagara Falls
• 1940, abandoned canal (Love canal)
• Dumped nearly 19000 tones of chemical waste
• Covered, leveled and sold to the board of education
• Site was then used for a school and playground.
• Twenty five years after
• 82 different compounds, 11 of them suspected
carcinogens, percolated upward through the soil,
• Drums rotting and leaching their contents into the
backyards and basements of 100 homes & public
school
 Bhopal Disasters
• Midnight on December 3 1984
• For about 2 hours ….. 80,000
pounds of methyl isocyanate
(MIC) escaped to atmosphere
from a Union Carbide plant
• 10000 deaths.
• 200,000 injured.
• Many survivors suffer from
permanent respiratory illness &
impairment of vision.
 Environmental disasters
Environmental disasters & accidents
are to be expected from time to time in
chemical industry,
and
such risk is a part of the price we pay
for the products that chemistry brings
to us
Global Environmental Issues
 Global warming is the worldwide warming of the
atmosphere due to increases in the amount of carbon
dioxide and other gases being released into the
atmosphere by the burning of fuels.
 Global Warming
• Glaciers are melting, sea levels
are rising, cloud forests are
drying, and wildlife is
scrambling to keep pace.
• It's becoming clear that
humans have caused most of
the past century's warming by
releasing heat-trapping gases
as we power our modern lives.
• Called greenhouse gases, their
levels are higher now than in
the last 650,000 years.
 Green House Gases
• Rise in temperature that
the Earth experiences
because certain gases in
the atmosphere (water
vapor, carbon dioxide,
nitrous oxide, and
methane) trap energy
from the sun.
• Without these gases,
heat would escape back
into space.
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 Ozone Depletion

Reduces crop production,

Damage to seeds
Reduces quality of crops

Damages DNA
Skin cancer
Eye cataracts

Damage to aquatic plants, Paints, rubber, wood and plastic

fish larvae, shrimp, crabs Damages could be in billions of
Affects marine food chain, US dollars annually
damage to fisheries result
Ground level Ozone
 Acid rain

•Acid rain is rainfall that

has been acidified. Rain
is acidified by oxides of
sulfur and nitrogen.
•Acid rain occurs
because of the
atmosphere’s continual
efforts to clean itself of
various pollutants that
are introduced in to the
air
Marine Pollution
 Marine Pollution
DEEPWATER HORIZON

• Cause Wellheadblowout
• Casualties 13 dead (11 killed on
Deepwater Horizon, 2 additional
oil-related deaths)
• 17 injured Operator Transocean
under contract for BP
• Spill characteristics Volume up to
4,900,000 barrels
(206,000,000 US gallons;
779,000 cubic meters)
 Radioactive pollution
Release of radioactive substances or high-energy particles as
a result of human activity, either by accident or by design.
The sources:
• Nuclear weapon testing or detonation;
• Separation, and production of nuclear materials for use in
nuclear power plants or nuclear bombs;
• Accidental release of radioactive material from nuclear
power plants.
• Natural sources of radioactivity, such as radon gas
emitted from beneath the ground
 Nuclear Fallout
The two best known examples
illustrating the effect of
fallout contamination are:

• Chernobyl Nuclear Power

Station disaster in April 1986.

• Bombing of Hiroshima and

Nagasaki, Japan in 1945
Who is responsible for
the protection of
Environment?

Industries
All of us
All responsible citizen
To protect the Environment and to
ensure sustainable development, a
systematic approach needs to be
defined.

Hence the
Environmental Management
System
comes into way.
What is Environmental
Management System?
Environmental Management
System (EMS)

The part of an overall

management system that
addresses
the immediate and long term
impacts of the organization’s
products, services and operations
have on the environment.
 An Environmental Management
System
 Is everything that is done to manage and
measure our Company’s effects on the
environment and employee’s health and
safety
 Involves the environment in all decisions
 Keep track of environmental performance,
and improve it.
 In another word EMS is
 The systematic and organizational approach for
dealing with the various environmental issues
of the organization.
 A 'tool' that help us to control the impact of our
activities, products or services
 A ‘structured frame work' that help organization
to improve the environmental performance.
 An EMS Provides

– A guideline for management to address

environmental issues
– A way to measure environmental performance
 General Principle of EMS
• EMS serves the organization and its
mission.
• EMS is a process, not an event.
• EMS is the people & their actions,
not the words and aspirations.
• Improvement rests on changing
attitudes and behaviours
– “Want to, not have to”
• Start at the top, implement
throughout.
 EMS

Plan

Do

Check

Act

Improve
 What we have done?

• Developed an Environmental Management

System based on the SABIC Environmental
Manual & International standard ISO –
14001:1996.
Key Commitment of SHE & Q Policy

P – Provide Quality Products

R – Respect & Care for the Environment

P – Prevent Pollution
R – Reduce waste

M – Minimize the risk of operation

A– Achieve Continual Improvement
C – Comply with Regulations / Standards.
Environmental Aspect & Impacts

Environmental Aspects:
An activity of the organization which interact
with the environment.

Environmental Impacts:
Any change to the environment, whether
adverse or beneficial, resulting from the
activity of the organization. 
 Environmental Aspect & Impacts

Aspect Impact
Cause
Cause Effect
Effect

• Identify the environmental aspects & impacts of all activities &

services.
• Individual need to know about the significant aspect & impact
of his area.
• Any one can identify the Aspect & Impact and communicate to
respective EMS coordinator.
 Environment - source of resources
& sink for wastes
Direct
Indirect Product
Air
Air
Air

Resources: Waste Contractors

Suppliers
materials, emissions
emissions Effluent
water,
energy
Waste Water Waste
to land Water surface & to land
Land use ground water
Resource
flows
Other
Other demands
demands
on
on the
the
environment
environment
Bio-diversity
Bio-diversity &
& eco
eco -carrying
-carrying capacity
capacity
Example Activities, Aspects
and Related Impacts
Activity Aspect Impact
(thing that is done) (event that results (how interacts with
from it) the environment)
flaring process emission of global warming
gas carbon dioxide
generation of discharge of reduced quality
process treated effluent of the receiving
wastewater water body

Chemical Potential Contamination of

handling spillage soil / water

storing potential contamination

chemical drums spillage of soil/water
 HOW TO HANDLE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS?

Environmental Aspects

Further
Assessment
Significance No
Stop
Assessment

Yes

Improvement Training & Operational Emergency

Program Competence Control Procedure
 Roles & Responsibility of Individual

• Ensure the adherence to Environmental

Policy.
• Consider the Environmental Aspect /
Impact in all activities performed by
individuals.
• Ensure efficient usage of the energy &
resources.
• Report all Environmental Incident
Promptly.
• Avoid spillage of the chemical in usage
& handling.
 Training
 All employees must receive the EMS Awareness Training.
 Employees that have jobs that are involved with Significant
Environmental Aspects

• Must Know Importance of Conformance with

Environmental Policy and Procedures
• Must Know Impact of their Work Activities
• Must Know Emergency Procedures
• Must Know Consequences of Departure from Job
Instructions
 Importance of EMS Procedures

WHAT IF? One Do Not follow EMS

Procedures/Job Instructions, It could cause:
• Pollution of environment
• Depletion of Natural Resources
• Increase waste generation
• Lead to employee Accidents or Incidents
• Property Damage
• Exposure to harmful materials
 Operational Control
Develop the SOP’s / work instruction’s for
the key activities which do or can affect
environment.
Consider the environmental impact of the
goods and services
Communicate environmental requirements
to suppliers and contractors.
 Documentation Structure
Defines
Level-1 Company Objectives,
Environmental Policy
Manual Approach

Environmental Defines
Level-2
Who
Procedure What
Manual When

Department Specific
Level-3 SOP’s / Work Instruction Answer
Manual How

Level-4 Forms Records Result

 EMS Procedures That Apply to
Everyone

• Emergency Procedures
• Waste Management Practices
• Internal & External Communication
• Contractors, Supplier and Visitor
Requirements
 Emergency Procedure
• Know your roles & responsibility
• If you are involved in the emergency respond to
accidents & emergencies appropriately.
• Know whom to inform and what actions to be taken
• Focus on prevention & mitigation of Environmental
Impacts.
 Waste Management Practice
• Collect the waste in compatible
container.
• Place the container on the pallets.
• Fill-up the waste storage request form &
obtain waste sticker.
• Affix waste sticker on the waste
container.
• Close the waste container.
• Inform the Maintenance Dept. to transfer
the waste container to waste storage
area.
Internal &
External
Communications
 Contractor / Supplier Requirement
• Provide necessary information to
contractors to ensure awareness of
EMS
• Contractor need to submit Method
Statements to Initiating Activity
prior to working on-site
• Contractor to conform to EMS
requirements, ensure staff
awareness & maintain records
 Any One Can Make A
Difference?
• Anyone at our Company who has an
environmental concern or suggestion in
order to improve our Environmental
Management System can contact the
Environmental Engineer / Technician.
 Incidents, Emergencies and
Crisis Communication
• Environmental Incidents:
– Release, leakage or spillage of chemical / lube oil.
– Release / leakage of HC
– Any emission or discharge in excess of Smokey
Flare.
 Monitoring & Measurement
– Monitor the performance of activities that have an
environmental impacts
– Keep track of progress against the objectives &
targets.
– Compare the performance against the regulatory
requirements.
– Calibrate and maintain the environmentally critical
equipment.
 Non conformance and Corrective
Preventive Action

Establish the cause

Take immediate action
to minimize the impact
on the environment
Take action to prevent it
happening again
Document & check that
the actions have been
effective
Environmental Management
System Audit
EMS Audits are systematic
evaluations of the degree to which
Company procedures and practices
comply with legal requirements,
internal policies and accepted
practices / procedures.

Environmental Audits look at the

Environmental components of
procedures and practices.
 Types of Environmental
Audits Conducted
• Legal Compliance
• Environmental Management System
Audits
• Internal
• External
• Waste Management Audits
Benefits of Conducting EMS
Audits
• Improve effectiveness of
Environmental Management System
• Audit proves conformance with
standard
• Ensure compliance with environmental
regulations
• Improve communication within
organization and with government
regulators
• Increased security knowing company
risks have been identified and reduced
 Management Review

• A documented review of the

EMS by the organization’s Top
Management to ensure its
continuing suitability, adequacy
and effectiveness.

Management Reviews facilitate

CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT!
Benefits of the EMS ?
Benefits of an Effective EMS
• Provides structured frame work for
management of environmental issues.
• Conserve Raw Materials / Energy
• Reduce Long Term Costs Associated with
Environmental Issues
• Reduce Regulatory Liabilities
• Improve Regulatory Compliance
• Improve Perception of Customers
• Improve International Competitiveness
• Improve Global Environmental Quality
 Key Parts of the Successful EMS

Employees at ALL levels

All Activities, Products and Services that can
have an impact on the environment
Policies, Procedures and Manuals
Environmental documentation and records
Any Questions ?
 Remember!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Protecting the Environment is
Everyone’s Job,
And So Is Maintaining the EMS!