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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS What are they?  

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS What are they?   How do they promote environmental responsibility?   September 29, 2005 UMass Lowell EMS Service Program. The EMS Framework. plan. Continual improvement. do. act. check. An EMS Has Three Key Commitments.

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS What are they?  

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  1. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS What are they?   How do they promote environmental responsibility?   September 29, 2005 UMass Lowell EMS Service Program

  2. The EMS Framework plan Continual improvement do act check

  3. An EMS Has Three Key Commitments • Compliance with relevant laws and regulations • Prevention of pollution • Continual improvement ENV. POLICY C O M P L Y P P R O E L V L E U N T T I O N I M P R O V E

  4. What is an EMS? • An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a system of processes to support an organization in integrating environmental concerns into its daily practices • Compliance • Prevention of pollution • Continual improvement

  5. An overall system of management processes and tools to help an organization address its environmental issues and environmental goals

  6. A way to figure out: • Who has what impact on the environment • How to prevent/address that impact • Stay out of trouble, save money, feel and look good over a long period of time

  7. What is an EMS? • Defined, integrated, and systematic ways to: • Identify • Prioritize • Manage, • Mitigate • Document

  8. Say what you doDo what you sayProve it

  9. Lessons Learned • Much of what you need for an EMS may already be in place • An EMS is more of a change management issue than a technical fix

  10. Keys to Success Management support Effective ‘champion’ Involved and engaged staff KISS Effective teams

  11. Resources www.uml.edu/ems, www.uml.edu/epaems/ems www.epa.gov/ems www.peercenter.net www.emswebware.com EMS: An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations, NSF International, January 2001 www.epa.gov/owm/iso14001/ems2001final.pdf OR order through http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/owrccatalog.nsf/HomePage?OpenForm&CartID=11716-125101 EPA #: 832B01001

  12. Environmental Aspects and Impacts

  13. Environmental Aspects and Impacts • Fundamental purpose of your EMS is to control and reduce the environmental impacts of activities, products, and services within your fenceline. • First, you need to know what the impacts are and how significant they are.

  14. How does your facility interact with the environment? - Environmental aspects and impacts as a tool to find out

  15. Environmental Aspect • An element of an organization’s activities, products, or services that can interact with the environment.

  16. Key: Identify the environmental aspects that your organization - Can control, and - Over which it can have an influence

  17. Environmental Impact • Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization’s activities, products or services.

  18. Cause ----------------- Effect • Aspect ---------------- Impact

  19. How? • Identify main activities, products, and services within your ‘fenceline’ - Brainstorming, process flow diagrams • List environmental aspects - Are they under your control and influence? - Identify the associated impacts

  20. Activity Aspect Impact

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