Industrial Ecology:

ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CHE 185 : Industrial Waste Management and
Control

• ADNieva
• School of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
• Mapúa Institute of Technology
 Why EMS?
• Worldwide trend to focus on better
environmental management
• From add-on function to integral part of
business operations
• Strategy-driven not compliance-driven
• Broad framework for implementing
strategic environmental management
 Concerns about ISO
14000 implementation
• Increased costs
• Possible non-tariff trade barriers
• Voluntary or mandated?
• Does not actually lead to better
environmental performance
• Third party registration issues
 Key Benefits of EMS

• Management
• Legal
• Financial
• Internal
• External
 Management
• Promote competitive advantage
and improve environmental
performance
• Balance economic and environment
interests
• Develop good industry practice
• Encourage development and use of
innovative technology
 Legal
• Improve legal and regulatory
compliance
• Enhance relations with
government authorities
• Access to government
regulatory, flexibility and
permitting assistance
 Financial

• Improve market share and

operational costs
• Reduce penalty, liability costs,
and insurance premiums
• Better access to capital
 Internal
• More productive and efficient
workforce
• More employment involvement
• Enhance employees morale
• Reduce training effort for
employees
 External

• Improve public image

• Enhance public and community
relation
• Reduce customer pressure
 Environmental
Management System
• organizational structure
• planning activities
• responsibilities
• practices
• procedures
• processes
• resources
 Environmental
Management System

• Over-all review of items above for:

– Developing
– Implementing
– Achieving
– reviewing
– Maintaining the environmental
policy
 EMS Principles
• Rank environmental management
among corporate priorities

• Emphasize pollution prevention

• Establish communication within

the organization and constituents
 EMS Principles
• Enhance management and employee
commitment to environmental
protection

• Encourage environmental planning

throughout the life cycle of the
product and /or process

• Improve the EMS by proper auditing

and review procedure
 EMS MODEL

• Environmental Policy
• Planning
• Implementation and Operation
• Checking and Corrective Action
• Management Review
 EMS MODEL
Continual
Development

Management Review Environmental Policy

Checking and Planning

Corrective Action

Implementation and
Operation
 Elements of EMS
PLAN

Environmental Policy
Environmental Aspects
ACT DO
Legal Requirements
Objectives and targets Structure, responsibility
Review Env. management program Training, communication
Documentation
Operational Control
CHECK Emergency preparedness
Monitor/measure
Non-conformance
Corrective/preventive section
Records
Audits
 Plan-Do-Check-Act
(PDCA) Cycle
PLAN
• begin by studying the current process
• Standardize the process
• collect data to identify the problems
• Analyze data and develop a plan for
improvement
• Specify measures for evaluating the
plan
 Plan-Do-Check-Act
(PDCA) Cycle
DO
• Implement the plan
• Document any changes made during
this phase
• Collect data systematically for
evaluation
 Plan-Do-Check-Act
(PDCA) Cycle
CHECK
• Evaluate the data collection during
the DO phase
• Check how closely the results match
the original goals of the PLAN phase
 Plan-Do-Check-Act
(PDCA) Cycle
ACT
• (IF SUCESSFUL) Standardize the
new method and communicate the
new method to all people associated
with the process
• Implement training for new method
• (IF NOT) revise the plan and repeat
the process or cease the project
 Environmental Aspect

Element of an organization’s activities,

products or services that can interact
with the environment
 Environmental Impact

Any changes to the environment,

whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or
partially resulting from an
organization’s activities, products and
services
 Initial Environmental
Review

Initial comprehensive analysis of the

EMS and the issues, impacts and
performances of activities at a site
 Initial Environmental Review
• Identification of:
– legislative and regulatory
requirements
– environmental aspects of its
activities, products or services so
as to determine those that have or
can have significant environmental
impacts and liabilities
 Initial Environmental Review
• Evaluation of:
– performance compared with
relevant internal criteria
– external standards
– Regulations
– codes of practice
– sets of principles and guidelines
Initial Environmental Review
• Existing environmental management
practices and guidelines
• Identification of the existing policies
and procedures dealing with
procurement and contracting
activities
• Feedback from the investigation of
previous incidents of non-compliance
Initial Environmental Review
• Opportunity for competitive
advantage
• The views of interested parties
• Functions or activities of other
organizational systems that can
enable or impede environmental
performance
Environmental Performance

Measurable results of the EMS, related to

an organization’s control of its
environmental aspects, based on its policy,
objectives and targets
Environmental Policy
• A key tool in communicating the
environmental priorities of one’s
organization to employees at all
levels
• should be written clearly and
concisely and be made publicly
available
• Provides a set of guidelines to
the organization to enable
continuous improvement with
regard to environmental issues
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Statement by an organization of its intention and

principle in relation to its overall management
performance which provides a framework for action and
for setting of its environmental objectives and target
 Environmental Policy
• Appropriate to nature, scale and
environmental impacts of its activities,
products or services
• commitment to continual improvement
and pollution prevention
• A commitment to compliance
• framework for action
• Documented, implemented, maintained
and communicated to all employees
• Available to public
Environmental Objective

Overall environmental goal, arising from the

environmental policy, that an organization
set 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
 Environmental
Management Program

a description of the means achieving

environmental objectives and targets. It’s
details what must be done, by whom, how
and when for each of the defined objective
and targets of high priority
 Planning

• Defines the organization’s goals,

objectives, and targets for its
environmental management
program
Need to identify the boundaries of its
system it can control and over which it can
be expected to have influence
EMS elements related to
planning:

• Legal and other requirements

• Internal performance criteria
• Environmental plan and
management program
Implementation and Operation

• Focus and align people systems,

strategies, resources, and
structures to achieve
environmental objectives
 EMS elements related to
Implementation and Operation
• Structure and responsibility
• Training, awareness, and competence
• Internal communication
• Environmental Management
Documentation
• Document Control
• Operational Control
• Emergency Preparedness and Response –
Business Continuity Plan
Checking and Corrective Action

• Measuring, monitoring and

evaluating are key activities of
EMS which ensure that the
organization is performing in
accordance with the stated
environmental management
Checking and Corrective Action

• Monitoring and measurement

• Nonconformance, corrective and
preventive action
• Records
• Audit EMS
Review and Improvement

• Continual improvement process

should be applied to an EMS to
achieve overall improvement in
environmental performance
 Review should include:
• Review of environmental objectives and targets
• Finding of EMS audits
• Evaluation of its effectiveness
• Evaluation of the suitability of the environmental
policy and the need for changes in light of:
– Changing legislation
– Changing expectation and requirements of
interested parties
– Changes in the products or activities
– Advances in science and technology
– Lessons learned from environmental accidents
– Market preference
– Reporting and communication
Continual Improvement
Select a
Document
process

Evaluate Study documents

Implement the Seek ways to

Improved process improve it

Design an
Improved process
 Continual Improvement
• Identify area of opportunity for
improvement of the EMS which lead to
improved environmental performance
• Determine the root cause or causes of
nonconformance or deficiencies
• Develop and implement plan(s) of
corrective and preventive action to
address root cause(s)
 Continual Improvement

• Verify the effectiveness of the

corrective and preventive actions
• Document any changes in procedures
resulting from process improvement
• Make comparisons with objectives and
targets