ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

AND TECHNOLOGY

WEEK 1
INTRODUCTION TO
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS

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• Ch. M Shanmuga Kittappa

• Senior Consultant
• Environmental engineer
• shanmuga27@yahoo.com

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• Class attendance is compulsory
• < 80 % will be barred from exam ( only MC
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• No new students after 3rd class
• Be punctual to class
• 15 min break in between
• Assignment, test and attendance marks
• Overall performance will be monitored

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• 50CW-50EXAM CW:

• Assignment (25%)

• Test (20%)

• Attendance (5%)

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 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

 List of general terms used in management system.

 Describe the roles of organization.

 Non-governmental organization and society.

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 LEARNING OUTCOMES
 Student is able to understand the general terms used in
management system.

 Student is able to describe the roles play by

organization, non-governmental organization and
society.

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 General terms
 BS – British Standards
 ISO – International Organization for Standardization
 EMS – Environmental Management Systems
 EMAS – Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
 TQM – Total Quality Management

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 Standards
 is an agreed, repeatable way of doing something
 universally or widely accepted, agreed upon
  a level of quality, achievement, etc., that is considered
acceptable or desirable
 is a collective work

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 ISO
 Derived from the Greek isos, meaning "equal".
 is the world's largest developer and publisher of International
Standards
 ISO standards are developed by technical committees,
(subcommittees or project committees) comprising experts from
the industrial, technical and business sectors

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• Temperature

• Weight

• Amount of substance

• Electric current ?

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 International Standards are developed by ISO technical committees

(TC) and subcommittees (SC) by a six-step process
Stage 1: Proposal stage

Stage 2: Preparatory stage

Stage 3: Committee stage

Stage 4: Enquiry stage

Stage 5: Approval stage

Stage 6: Publication stage

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 Background
 World’s first environmental management systems standard – BS
7750
 Today, BS 7750 has been withdrawn and replaced by
international standard ISO 14001.
 Tools and techniques to improve an organization’s
environmental performance through root cause analysis and the
development of practical, manageable solutions.

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 What is an Environmental Management

System?

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 An EMS is a structured system designed to help

 an organisation to reduce these impacts through
targeted continuous improvement in its
environmental management,

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 The objectives of EMS

 Control and improve the environmental performance of the
business
 Ensure that necessary controls are in place to understand the
environmental performance required
 Identify areas for improvement
 Implement improvement plan

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EMS –Benefits
Reduced impact on the environment;
Sound (effective and efficient) environmental
performance;
Continuous improvement;
Meeting legal and other environmental obligations;
and

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EMS –Benefits
A due diligence approach to environmental
management for the organization and its staff.
Saving organization money – reducing waste, better
control and less risk.
Overcome trade barriers and cultural components

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EMS – Critical Elements

Defining environmental aspects
Analysing relevant environmental impacts
Removing the impacts
Improving environmental performance

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DOCUMENT

RISK
MANAGE
IDENTIFY

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 EMAS ( EU Eco-management and Audit Scheme)

 Developed by The European Commission (EC)
 As a tool to evaluate and drive improvement of industry’s
environmental performance.
 EC introduce it as a regulation but participation in the scheme is
voluntary.
 The scheme does not provide standards of environmental
performance.

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 Management system
 Quality management system (QMS)
 Concept of conforming to specified requirements
 Related to policies, practices and procedures that are used
to direct an organization’s activities towards products (or
services) meeting specified requirements.
 ISO 9000 offers a model for quality systems that is often
used between the purchaser and supplier

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 Management system (cont’)

 Total Quality Management (TQM)
 Further enhancement of the QMS
 Concentrates on analyzing and refining every internal
process and practice to become focused on customer
orientated measurements
 Key features are continual analysis, measurement and
improvement through the quality loop.

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 Management system (cont’)
 The continual improvement loop

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SYSTEM (EMS)

 Some of the organizations established and promoted

guidelines and principles for good environmental
management, for example:
 ICC – International Chamber of Commerce
 BCSD – Business Council for Sustainable Development
 CBI – Confederation of British Industry
 CERES – Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
 CIA – Chemical Industry Association

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 Non-governmental organization
 MNS – Malaysian Nature Society
 MENGO – Malaysian Environmental Non-
Governmental Organization
 NCWO – National Council of Women Organization

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 All these organizations have typical system approach to

environmental management such as
 Policy statement
 Plans and programmes
 Integration of environmental plans into daily operations
 Performance measurements
 Information sharing

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 Based on these concepts

 Everything we do in business has some impact on the
environment.
 Management systems control everything we do in
business.
 Standards can be set for environmental management
systems.

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 EMS must be
 Fully integrated into overall management processes
 Contributing to improving overall company performance
 Recognized as appropriate by those who are interested in your
environmental performance
 Responding to the issue of ‘thinking globally, acting locally’

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 Trade barrier
 Any regulation or policy that restricts international trade
 For example, poaching, illegal logging, etc.

 Cultural component
 Native community
 Usage of natural resources i.e. bamboo, herbs, etc

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 Environmental degradation and poverty

 Air quality
 Water quality
 Living quality
 Others (eg.health)

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SYSTEM STANDARDS – CONT’

 Societal transformations

In the line at the  store, the cashier told the older woman
that she  should bring her own grocery  bag because
plastic bags weren't good for the environment.  

The woman apologized  to him and explained,

"We didn't have the green thing back  in my day." 

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The clerk responded,  "That's our problem today.

The former generation did not  care enough to
save our environment."

He was right; that  generation didn't have the

"green thing" in its day.  

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Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda  bottles

and beer bottles to the store.
The store sent them  back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled,  so it could use the same bottles
over and over. So they  really were recycled.

But they didn't have  the "green thing" back in that

customer's day.

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In her day, they walked  up stairs, because they

didn't have an escalator in every  store and
office building. They walked to the grocery store
 and didn't  climb into a 300-horsepower
machine every time they had to go  two blocks.

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 But she was right. They  didn't have the "green thing" in
her day.
Back then, they washed  the baby's diapers because they
didn't have the throw-away  kind.
They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy  gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar  power
really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down  clothes
from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new
 clothing.
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SYSTEM STANDARDS – CONT’

 But that old lady is  right, they didn't have the "green
thing" back in her  day.

Back then, they had one  TV, or radio, in the house - not
a TV in every room. And  the TV had a small screen the
size of a handkerchief, not a  screen the size of the state
of Montana .

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In the kitchen, they  blended and stirred by hand

because they didn't have electric  machines to
do everything for you. When they packaged a
 fragile item to send in the mail,
they used a wadded up  old newspaper to
cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble  wrap.

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Back then, they didn't  fire up an engine and burn

gasoline just to cut the lawn.  They used a push mower
that ran on human power.
They  exercised by working so they didn't need to go
to a health  club to run on treadmills that operate on
 electricity.
But she's right, they  didn't have the "green thing" back
then.

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They drank from a  fountain when they were thirsty

instead of using a cup or a  plastic bottle every time they
had a drink of water. They  refilled their writing pens with
ink instead of buying a new  pen, and they replaced the
razor blades in a razor instead of  throwing away the
whole razor just because the blade got  dull.

But they didn't have  the "green thing" back then.

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Back then, people took  the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their
bikes to school or  walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-
hour taxi  service.

They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an  entire bank of

sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they  didn't need a
computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed  from satellites
2,000 miles out in space in order to find  the nearest pizza joint.

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SYSTEM STANDARDS – CONT’

But isn't it sad the  current generation

laments how wasteful the old folks  were
just  because they didn't have the "green
thing" back  then?

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 KEY TERMS

 BS – British Standards
 ISO – International Organization for
Standardization
 EMS – Environmental Management Systems
 EMAS – Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
 TQM – Total Quality Management

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 REFERENCES

 Sheldon, C. ed. (2007). ISO14001 and Beyond:

Environmental Management Systems in the Real World.
London, Greenleaf Pub.
 Gilbert, M. and Gould, R. (1998). Achieving
Environmental Standards, 2nd ed. Pitman Pub.

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