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Defining Your Fenceline: How Big is My EMS?

Learn the importance of defining your EMS fenceline in EPA Regions 9 & 10. Understand the scope, activities, products, and services involved. Explore organizational structures and engage with stakeholders. Discover how to incorporate other management systems and effectively manage your facility within defined boundaries. Enhance your knowledge of responsibilities, accountability, and involvement of various stakeholders in your EMS. Develop an actionable plan with gap analysis to optimize your EMS effectiveness.

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Defining Your Fenceline: How Big is My EMS?

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  1. Defining Your Fenceline: How Big is My EMS? EPA Regions 9 & 10 and The Federal Network for Sustainability

  2. Objectives After this discussion, you should be able to: • Describe the purpose of an EMS “fenceline” • Define activities, products, and services

  3. Overview • EMS Fenceline • Activities, Products, and Services • Organizational Charts • Other Stakeholders

  4. EMS Fenceline • Define the scope of your EMS • Physical boundaries of facility • Incorporation of other management systems • Mission of facility • Organizations involved

  5. Physical Boundaries of Facility • Contiguous area • Geographically separate areas • Participation of tenants • Encroachment • Community participation

  6. Other Management Systems • Safety • Occupational Health • Risk • Quality • Government Performance and Results Act

  7. Activities, Products, and Services • Core mission of facility • Visitor and personnel support • Housing • Food service • Recreation • Facilities Management/Engineering • Facility maintenance • Utilities

  8. Organizational Charts • Include all organizations associated with activities, products, and services • Computer example • Define the EMS according to responsibility and accountability • Is the EMS large enough to include process owners and those with authority to improve processes?

  9. Other Stakeholders • Tenants and other agencies • Suppliers • Contractors and Grantees (Senior Environmental Employees) • On-site • Off-site • Public • Visitors • Local community

  10. Summary • A fenceline defines the scope and size of your EMS • Gap analysis helps create a list of actions for the EMS team

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