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Michele Fitzpatrick Wright-Hamilton Associates

How Environmental Management System Development Can Enhance Your Company’s Environmental Health and Safety. Michele Fitzpatrick Wright-Hamilton Associates. TOPICS. What is an Environmental Management System (EMS)? How EMS relates to ISO 14001 How EMS relates to Health & Safety.

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Michele Fitzpatrick Wright-Hamilton Associates

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  1. How Environmental Management System Development Can Enhance Your Company’s Environmental Health and Safety Michele Fitzpatrick Wright-Hamilton Associates Wright-Hamilton Associates

  2. TOPICS • What is an Environmental Management System (EMS)? • How EMS relates to ISO 14001 • How EMS relates to Health & Safety Wright-Hamilton Associates

  3. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EMS) The organizational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, maintaining, reviewing, and correcting/improving an organization’s approach to environmental management. Wright-Hamilton Associates

  4. ISO 14001 International specification standard against which an Environmental Management System is prepared and audited. Wright-Hamilton Associates

  5. MISSION(Code of Ethics for thePractice of Industrial Hygiene) Protect the health and well-being of working people and the public from chemical, microbiological and physical health hazards present at, or emanating from, the workplace. Wright-Hamilton Associates

  6. PREMISE #1 How you manage the environmental aspects identified by your Environmental Management System will determine the level of exposure of your workers and the public to health and safety hazards. Wright-Hamilton Associates

  7. PREMISE #2 The development of an Environmental Management System will prepare you for the development of a Health and Safety Management System. Wright-Hamilton Associates

  8. MAJOR EMS ELEMENTS Policy Development Identification of Environmental Aspects and Impacts Documentation and Document Control [EMS Manual] Corrective and Preventive Action EMS Audit Management Review Wright-Hamilton Associates

  9. ENVIRONMENTALASPECTS AND IMPACTS Identify all processes that affect the environment (and/or health and safety) Identify relevant rules and regulations and procedure for compliance Develop program for reducing detrimental effects (pollution prevention) Wright-Hamilton Associates

  10. HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BS 8800 - health and safety standard developed by the British Standards Institute in 1996 OHSAS 18001 - Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series developed by the British Standards Institute in 1999 ISO ? - AIHA may seek chairmanship of ISO H&S Committee for the U.S. Wright-Hamilton Associates

  11. CONCLUSION EMS Pollution Prevention Program Source Reduction Reduced Exposure Prepare for future Health and Safety Standard Wright-Hamilton Associates

  12. CONTACT INFORMATION Michele Fitzpatrick Wright-Hamilton Associates 214 Thames Street Groton, CT 06340 phone: 860-446-8087 fax: 860-446-8907 michele.fitzpatrick@swe.org Wright-Hamilton Associates

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