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Compliance Index – Environmental Compliance/Performance Measure

Compliance Index – Environmental Compliance/Performance Measure. 0. 100. Poor. Average. High. National Environmental Partnership Summit, Baltimore, Maryland May 20th, 2008. Compliance Index – Overview. Present Ontario’s experience in conducting an

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Compliance Index – Environmental Compliance/Performance Measure

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  1. Compliance Index – Environmental Compliance/Performance Measure 0 100 Poor Average High National Environmental Partnership Summit, Baltimore, Maryland May 20th, 2008

  2. Compliance Index – Overview • Present Ontario’s experience in conducting an inspection & enforcement program • Discuss compliance performance indicator • Present methodology and actual results • Benefits of Compliance Index

  3. Some Details…. • Ontario is a province just over 1 • million square kilometres (400,000 • sq mi) • Ontario could cover as many as 13 • states

  4. Sector Compliance Branch…. • Conducts province-wide inspections of industrial • sectors, to ensure that they are in compliance • with Ontario’s environmental laws, in order to • reduce the threat to human health and • environment • Undertakes education and outreach initiatives • to help promote compliance • Publicly reports compliance performance and • trends to encourage proactive compliance • Committed to continuous improvement in • compliance programs

  5. Risk Based Approach….. • SCB employs a risk • assessment method to assess • the relative environmental risks • of industrial and commercial • sectors for the purposes of • prioritizing planned inspections • Conducts a proximity analysis to • rank the facilities in a specific • industrial sector according to • distance to their sensitive • receptors 120 m 65 m

  6. SCB Business Model….. Compliance Improvement Activity Conduct Risk Assessment Select High-Risk Sectors Sector Planning Provincial Inspection Sweep Enforcement Action Measure Compliance Levels Undertake Sector Diagnostics Sector Outreach Internal *Compliance Assistance *Gaps / Issues Public Reporting

  7. Why Compliance Index….. • Provide Ministry with an outcome based • performance measurement for facility and • sector compliance levels • Provide a real-time compliance assessment • methodology • Facilitate effective decision-making when • targeting sectors and facilities • Provide an effective tool to evaluate results and • provide comparisons

  8. Compliance Index….. • The Compliance Index is a measure of relative • compliance levels, based on types of legislative • violations (e.g., exceedance of a regulatory • limit, non-compliance with permit or CofA • conditions, etc.) • CI Formula:  Vw +  Cw • Vw = weighted legislative violation • Cw = weighted CofA conditions • violation

  9. Steps in CI Development….. • Identify the number of potential legislative violations that may result from an inspection • Categorize violations into four contravention categories (e.g, reporting and record keeping) • Assign weights to each contravention category that reflect level of environmental significance • Provide weights to each violation Vw • Repeat steps for C of A condition violations Cw • Determine CI value (by Company, by media, by program)

  10. Facility Score….. CI score represents a baseline numerical value for a facility environmental compliance levels Higher the score, the lower the compliance with environmental legislation

  11. Facility Score within Haz. Waste Sector…..

  12. Score for All Media inspections….. CI score provided relative compliance level of facilities within different media inspections. Higher the score, the lower the compliance with environmental legislation

  13. Score for Air Media inspections….. • The CI score provided relative compliance level of facilities within air media inspections.

  14. Score for Sector…..

  15. Comparison of CI Score on re-inspection….. Change in numerical value indicates compliance performance status: (-)improvement /(+)decline

  16. How to in System (Cameo)….. • All Sector inspectors are required to enter violations • information in CAMEO for all inspections that have been • conducted.  Officer identifies non- compliance (Y/N) Score is calculated in the background

  17. Benefits of Compliance Index….. • Provides performance measurement for facility, sector and media/program compliance levels • Increases the objectivity in compliance ratings that will help avoid different facilities being ranked at the same levels (Fail/Pass) of non-compliance • Improves determination of inspection targets, and also provides an indicator to gauge the level of compliance improvement • Reduces subjectivity and provides provincial consistency when ranking facilities based on risk • Component of larger risk assessment framework for the division • Key indicator of compliance improvement as well as program success

  18. Contact….. Rajeev Narang Ministry of the Environment Sector Compliance Branch Continuous Improvement Unit 305 Milner Avenue, Suite 1000 Scarborough, Ontario M1B 3V4 Tel: (416) 314-0335 Email: rajeev.narang@ontario.ca

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