The document provides an overview of environmental management systems (EMS) and their benefits. It explains that an EMS follows the plan-do-check-act cycle to manage environmental impacts through planning, implementation, monitoring, and review. Key aspects of an EMS include establishing environmental policies and objectives, assigning roles and responsibilities, training employees, conducting audits and reviews, and continuously improving performance. Implementing an EMS can help organizations improve compliance, reduce waste, and enhance environmental stewardship.

1. Why Develop an EMS?

2. Go Green……………

3. Plan Do Check Act
Environmental
Policy
Continual Improvement
Planning
Implementation &
Control
Checking &
Corrective Action
Management
Review

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The EMS
Plan, Do, Check, Act Cycle
(e.g., ISO 14001)
Checking/
Corrective Actions
• Measurement and Monitoring
• EMS Nonconformance and
Corrective Actions
• Records
• EMS Audits
Continuous
Improvement
Implementation
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Training and Communication
• EMS Document Control
• Emergency Preparedness
and Response
Planning
• Environmental Aspects
• Compliance
• Objectives and Targets
• Environmental Mgmt.
Programs
Environmental
Policy
Management
Review

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A Basic EMS Framework
Plan, Do, Check, Act
ACT CHECK
DOPLAN

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The Continuous Cycle
• Plan
Planning, identifying environmental aspects
and establishing goals
• Do
Implementing, includes training and
operational controls
• Check
Checking, includes monitoring and corrective
action
• Act
Reviewing, includes progress reviews and
acting to make needed changes

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Some previous EMS training photos

8. Connecting the Environment and
the People
o An EMS helps each member of the organization
understand their role in the environment, and to
see how what they do at the facility affects the
environment
o It provides for responsibility, ownership, and
accountability of actions and related impacts,
o Results? People that are more aware, better
trained, more motivated, and more enthusiastic.

9. Environmental Issues Facing
Government
o Impacts from site operations
o Policy implications
o Compliance concerns
o Budgetary pressures (enhanced efficiency)
o Public perception

10. What are some of the drivers for
government to adopt EMS principles?
The need to improve environmental
performance because of:
o Obligation of environmental stewardship,
o Public expectations,
o The “business side” of government,
o Regulatory compliance issues,
o Executive orders.

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BETTER TOMORROWBETTER TOMORROW

13. Benefits of an EMS
o Facilitates meeting your mission ,
o Improves the environmental condition,
o Minimizes accidents and problems, or lessens
impact and response time if they do occur,
o Reduces redundant paperwork,
o More efficient use of resources,
o Facilitates compliance with requirements,
o Responds to public scrutiny trends.

14. Measurement as a Management
Tool
o We need to know what conditions are to
make management decisions.
o An EMS directs and facilitates relevant
measurements.
o Measurements include environmental
conditions, status of programs,
compliance, and the EMS itself.

15. Managing Aspects vs. Impacts
o It is more prudent and more efficient to manage
“how” you interact with the environment than to
manage “what” you have done to the
environment.
o An EMS is built around identifying, prioritizing,
controlling, and improving upon, those elements
of the organization that interact with the
environment.

16. Fixing the Root Causes
o An EMS is designed to identify the root
causes of non-conformances and initiate
corrective and preventive action.
o This helps minimize the “bandage”
syndrome, where the fixes are simply
superficial.

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Objectives and Targets
• Compliance with Regulations
• Reduce Waste Streams
– Hazardous, Solid, and Universal
• Reduce Energy Consumption
• Recycle
• Green Purchasing
• Pollution Prevention

18. EMS and Compliance
There is “compliance management
system” embedded within the broader
“environmental management system”
• First- the theme of compliance is seen
throughout the plan-do-check-act elements,
• Second, there are specific compliance-related
requirements in an EMS (such as periodic
compliance audits) that help address
compliance issues before they occur.

19. Operational Benefits
o Better awareness of impacts, allowing the
workforce to make more informed decisions,
o Increased suggestions and initiatives,
o Additional opportunities to recognize and reward
performance,
o More consistency in operations,
o Faster response and more effective corrective
action when problems occur,
o Delegates responsibility to more people, and
where better addressed.

23. Checking
• Monitoring & measurement
• Evaluation of compliance
• Nonconformity, corrective action &
preventive action
• Control of records
• Internal audit

24. Control of records
• Retain all environmental records required
for the successful development,
implementation and maintenance of the
EMS

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Environmentally
preferable
purchasing
means
examining the
pollution
prevention
practices of your
vendors and
subcontractors
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

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Top Ten Pollution Prevention Techniques
1. Good housekeeping and
maintenance practices
2. Spill prevention and
preparedness
3. Inventory management
4. Prudent purchasing
5. Waste exchange
programs
6. Alternate cleaning
processes
7. Reduce/reuse process
wastes
8. Process modifications
9. Changes in equipment or
technology
10.Environmentally
preferable
purchasing

27. Internal audit
• Establish & implement internal audit
program to:
– evaluate conformity with requirements of
EMS & international standard
– evaluate effectiveness of EMS
– provide information to top management

28. Management Review
• Holistic & strategic evaluation, by top
management, of audit findings and the
degree to which organisation’s
environmental policy, objectives and
targets, programs and procedures are
functioning to improve environmental
performance.

29. 1900 & 2014

30. Steps to establishing an EMS
1. Obtain commitment from top management.
2. Define responsibilities, appoint management
representative(s), establish EMS steering committee,
develop implementation plan, initial training on EMS.
3. Planning—identify environmental aspects, legal &
other requirements; formulate environmental policy;
establish environmental objectives & targets &
programs.

31. Steps to establishing an EMS
4. Implementation & operation—develop
documentation & processes
5. Checking—develop processes for monitoring &
measurement & corrective & preventive action
6. Develop and deliver presentation on awareness
of the EMS in the agency.

32. Steps to establishing an EMS
7. Establish internal audit program, including
training; conduct initial internal audit to
evaluate conformity to requirements of ISO
14001, including evaluation of compliance
8. Follow up internal audit with improvements to
system
9. Conduct initial management review of EMS
10. Implement improvements from management
review

33. Jungle burned for agriculture in southern Mexico
Deforestation

34. Logging in Malaysia.

35. Chuquicamata, the largest open pit copper mine in the world, Chile
Mining

36. Iron hydroxide precipitate
stains a stream receiving
acid drainage from surface
coal mining.

37. Environmental impacts of
mining
• Land/soil erosion
• Formation of sinkholes,
• Loss of biodiversity in the area
• Contamination of groundwaters by
chemicals from the mining process and
products.
• Abandoned mines can still pose safety
hazards such as deadly gases

38. Chemicals used for mining
• Sodium cyanide for extraction of gold
• Sulphuric acid for extraction of copper
from copper oxides
• If these chemicals are not handled
properly, serious environmental impacts
may occur to the neighbouring
environment

39. Global Warming

44. Environmental Effects of
Global Warming
• Melting of permafrost and polar ice
• Rising sea level
• Spread of pests and disease
• Ecological impacts (e.g. disturbed life
cycle of flora-fauna)

45. Global Warming

46. Global Warming
is a general
increase in world
temperatures
caused by increased
amount of carbon
dioxide around the
Earth.

47. Air pollution

48. Air pollution
The air in our
towns and cities
is very polluted
with gases, car
fumes, smoke.
It is becoming
more and more
difficult to
breathe.

49. The destruction of the ozone layer

50. The destruction of the ozone layer
The ozone layer is
damaged and it is
very dangerous for
our planet. The
ozone layer is a
layer of gases in the
sky that prevents
harmful radiation
from the sun from
reaching the Earth

51. Deforestation

52. Deforestation
is the cutting down
or burning down of
all the trees in the
area. It means that
birds, animals and
insects have
nowhere to live and
become extinct. The
amount of oxygen is
reduced because
trees produce it.

53. Heavy traffic

54. Heavy traffic
Many cities and
town suffer from
heavy traffic and
traffic jams. It
causes many
problems, such as
air pollution,
nervous
breakdowns and
noise pollution.

55. Acid rain

56. Acid rain
The rain that
contains harmful
acid which can
damage the
environment and
is caused by
chemicals in the
air from cars and
factories.

57. Water pollution

58. Water pollution
Water
contains
harmful
chemicals and
is very
dangerous for
people and
animals.

59. Wastes

60. Wastes
Food, paper,
clothes,
materials,
substances
which are no
longer needed
and have been
thrown away.

61. Noise pollution

62. Noise pollution
is very loud or
continuous
noise which is
considered
unpleasant and
harmful to
people.

63. Compare the pictures

65. Conclusion
An environmental management system takes time and
commitment from the entire organisation.
Effective running of an EMS will provide ongoing
environmental benefits, cost savings and contribute to
building an attractive work place culture.

67. EMS AWEARNESS PHOTO’S

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