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Pollution Prevention in the Environmental Management System at LANL Dr. Denny Hjeresen

Pollution Prevention in the Environmental Management System at LANL Dr. Denny Hjeresen. EFCOG/EMS Workshop March 8-9, 2005. Overview. EMS as Major Marketing Opportunity for P2 EMS has requirements, P2 doesn’t Prevention vs. Pollution Prevention - One ISM message

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Pollution Prevention in the Environmental Management System at LANL Dr. Denny Hjeresen

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  1. Pollution Prevention in theEnvironmental Management System at LANLDr. Denny Hjeresen EFCOG/EMS Workshop March 8-9, 2005

  2. Overview • EMS as Major Marketing Opportunity for P2 • EMS has requirements, P2 doesn’t • Prevention vs. Pollution Prevention - One ISM message • LANL Strategy: Transparent merger of P2 and EMS into business practices • P2 - EMS integration methods: • Marketing - Packaging the Basic Message • Cost/Benefit Analysis & Cost Estimating • Case Studies • Objectives and Targets - Performance Measures • Division Action Plans - P2 Opportunity Assessments • Providing the resources - GSAF • Graphics and Training

  3. Environmental Approach Conduct the work Weigh the waste Transfer to waste mgmt. Recycle Minimize the volume Package Ship Store Safety Equivalent Conduct the work Count injuries, deaths Send to hospital Triage Bandage Send to recovery Prevention - An Upstream Approach Currently starting too late in processes Stop accepting the waste premise!

  4. Prevention Requires Technical Staff Technical Staff C O S T Waste Management Staff

  5. P2/EMS Strategy: Don’t ASK Anymore • Strategy: Extend the principle of affirmative procurement automation to new venues • LANL and SNL Sustainable Design example • Change the engineering standards • LEED requirements passed to A&E firms • P2 built in as key step in ISM work control process • Identify Hazard  Prevention Opportunity  Controls • P2 requirements in Automated Job Hazard Analysis Tool • Project Review (PR-ID) Criteria requires P2 project review • Built P2 objective into contractual requirements • LANL/UC Appendix F requirement

  6. P2 in Objectives and Targets • Policy statement requires P2 commitment • Division-level charter includes commitment to prevention • Implementing at Division level (35) • Objectives and Targets • Incorporated into Institutional Objectives • Required EMS or ISO Policies • LANL needed Aspects, Communications, and Legal • All built in prevention requirements • Revising additional Lab requirements • New DOE/NNSA P2 targets are EMS focused

  7. Making the Business Case • At LANL all new procedures must justify costs to financial and science office directors • Switched to cost/benefit argument • Poor environmental performance costs money • Cost/Benefit studies to document waste, regulatory, technical staff resources required • LANL Waste Cost Study - what do we pay? • Annual Waste Volume Forecast - what’s coming • Highlighted payback • P2 Awards Program (2 years = >$7 M savings) • GSAF Program - 241% ROI on projects over time • Identify the costs - hearts and minds will follow • Put the cost arguments in terms relevant to specific Divisions • Staff-time • Overhead costs • Mission interruption

  8. Why EMS at LANL? RockyFlatsClosing High fluxbeam atBrookhaven

  9. Why EMS at LANL? Delayed startup of our hydrodynamic test facility, DHART Bio Safety Level III Facility not operating At DX-2, leaks kept scientists from using lab sinks for over two years

  10. Why EMS at LANL? = $ 58,000/m3 TRU 1.6 m3 LANL FY04 = 78 m3 or 49 new post-docs

  11. Benefits INEEL Environmental Enforcement Penalties (Original Assessed Penalty) LANL Fines = $1.5 M last two years Real costs higher

  12. Packaging the Message • Built prevention into every element of EMS implementation • Graphics - posters, badges, viewgraphs, • The EMS is business! Prevention is a key delivery mechanism • Training • All-employee EMS awareness training • Features prevention examples • Repeated Training Message • Division leader kickoff • Division + Group Leader kickoff • All-employee required training video • Manager training module • How to use P2 to achieve results

  13. EMS Policy www.ems.lanl.gov

  14. Merging EMS with P2 Programs • Basic EMS pitch: • Decrease negative aspects - increase positive • P2 efforts are primary tool to highlight positive • Environmental Aspects - Significance Evaluation • P2 listed as a positive significant aspect • Environmental Action Plans • Using P2 Opportunity Assessments as evaluation tool • Process maps help identify mission improvements • DNA sequencing case study • Generator-set Aside Funds made available to execute • Only P2 based projects qualify • Leveraged funds - help them do the right thing • Awards Program • Consciously recognize the projects that come out of the EMS continuous improvement process

  15. P2 in EMS Life Cycle Aspects Review Plans (PPOA) Awards Resources (GSAF)

  16. Summary • Prevention is the smart business choice • Document how and specifically for whom • Prevention is most effective upstream • Give control and recognition to technical staff • Prevention as a guerilla activity - quit asking! • Built into life-cycle of LANL EMS

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