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Title: An Overview of Environmental Management Systems EMS


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An Overview of Environmental Management Systems
(EMS)
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WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM? The
ISO 14001 Definition
  • The overall management system that includes
    organizational structure, planning activities,
    responsibilities, practices, procedures,
    processes and resources for developing,
    implementing, achieving, reviewing and
    maintaining the environmental policy.

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What is an EMS in laymans terms?
  • An EMS is really just a formal planning tool to
    help an organization organize priorities and
    pursue goals.
  • Think of it as a fitness plan for an athlete!

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ems vs. EMS
  • All organizations have some type of environmental
    management system regardless of what they do
  • For this discussion, the focus is a more
    formalized, recognized, and structured approach
    defined in the international EMS standard, ISO
    14001
  • In most cases, additional effort is needed to
    transition from existing environmental activities
    to the more formal ISO 14001-type EMS

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An Effective EMS
  • Supports a variety of goals
  • Ensures the impact owner is responsible
  • Is in harmony with mission
  • Recognizes continual improvement

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Plan Do Check Act
Continual Improvement
Management Review
Environmental Policy
Planning
Checking Corrective Action
Implementation Control
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Policy
  • Statement of an organizations intentions and
    principals in relation to its overall
    environmental performance
  • Provides a framework for the EMS objectives and
    targets

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Planning
Determine
Identify
Significant
Environmental
Environmental Aspects
Aspects and Impacts
Establish
Identify
Activities,

Objectives,
Products
Targets and
and
Services
Programs
Determine Legal and Other
Requirements
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Environmental Aspects
  • Identify environmental aspects of activities
    products and services that you can control and
    can influence
  • Examples include air emissions, water discharges,
    soil contamination, use of raw materials, energy
    use, use of natural resources
  • To determine those which have or can have
    significant impacts on the environment

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Legal and Other Requirements
  • Identify legal requirements that apply to your
    facilitys aspects
  • Identify other requirements to which you
    subscribe e.g., Executive Orders, agency/bureau
    policies or voluntary practices

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Objectives and Targets
  • Develop and pursue environmental objectives and
    targets
  • Consider legal and other requirements
  • Consider significant aspects
  • Reflect interested parties
  • Reflect policy commitments
  • Results guide how you will measure progress

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and Program(s)
  • Develop and use a plan to achieve objectives and
    targets
  • Assign responsibility
  • Function
  • Level
  • Describe what is to be done, what will be
    measured, and what the schedule will be

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Implementation and Control
Capabilities
Organization
Controls
Accountability
Communications
Documentation and Control of Documents
Competence
Resources, Roles, Responsibility and Authority
Training and
Awareness
Operational Controls
Communication
Emergency
Preparedness and
Response
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Resources, Roles, Responsibility and Authority
  • Management provides resources to implement,
    maintain and improve the system
  • Roles and responsibilities are defined,
    documented, communicated

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Competence, Training and Awareness
  • Ensure competence training to
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Standard operating procedures
  • Train on
  • EMS - awareness including policy
  • Relationship between activities and environmental
    impacts
  • Include those who perform tasks on behalf of the
    organization contractors

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Communication
  • Ensure internal communication between levels
    and functions BOTH WAYS!
  • Decide whether to communicate externally

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Documentation and Document Control
  • Document the System
  • Describes parts of the system and how they work
    together
  • Control system documents
  • Can be located - are legible, dated and
    maintained
  • Reviewed, approved and revised as necessary
  • Current versions are available to practitioner
  • Obsolete documents are removed from use and
    maintained if necessary

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Operational Control
  • Identify operations and activities associated
    with significant environmental aspects
  • Develop and use procedures used in those
    operations and activities to address significant
    aspects to pursue objectives and targets

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Emergency Preparedness and Response
  • Develop and use procedures to
  • Identify potential for accidents and emergencies
    and associated environmental impact and what
    response will be
  • Prevent, respond to and mitigate associated
    environmental impacts
  • Review and revise procedures after emergency or
    accident

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Checking and Corrective Action
Evaluation of compliance
Monitoring and
Nonconformity,
Measuring
Records
Corrective and
Preventive Action
Periodic Internal EMS Audits
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Monitoring and Measurement
  • Develop and use procedures to monitor and measure
    activities related to significant aspects
  • Track performance, operational controls
  • Determine success towards objectives and targets

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Evaluation of Compliance
  • Develop and use a procedure to periodically
    evaluate compliance with legal requirements
  • Also evaluate compliance with other
    requirements
  • Records are kept of the evaluations

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Nonconformity, Corrective and Preventive Action
  • Develop and use procedures defining
    responsibility and authority to address problems
    - who is responsible
  • Mitigate impacts
  • Identify cause
  • Develop corrective action and implement it
  • Modify procedures if necessary to prevent
    recurrence
  • Review effectiveness of modified procedures

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Records
  • Develop and use procedures for identification,
    maintenance and disposition of environmental
    records
  • Training
  • Audits or other reviews

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Internal EMS Audits
  • Periodically audit to determine if the EMS,
  • is being properly implemented and maintained
  • Audit information is provided to management

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Management Review
  • Take account of
  • audit findings
  • progress records on objectives
  • changes to facilities
  • changes in activities, products or services
  • changes in technology
  • concerns of interested parties
  • other relevant information
  • To Assess the
  • suitability,
  • adequacy, and
  • effectiveness of the EMS

  • In order to determine the need for change and
    improvement to
  • the environmental policy
  • the objectives and targets
  • other elements of the EMS

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Plan Do Check Act
Continual Improvement
Environmental Policy
Management Review
Planning
Checking Corrective Action
Implementation Control
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Keep in mind
  • The EMS and related measurement tools are just
    that, tools. Alone, they will not guarantee
    success. The organization must use the tools, not
    just have them.
  • An effective EMS is alive constantly measuring
    performance, making adjustments, and looking for
    opportunities for continual improvement
  • An EMS cycle gets repeated to ensure it is
    meeting the policy goals, working properly and
    updated as necessary

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Summary
  • A formal EMS reflects an accepted framework for
    managing the environmental footprint of your
    organization including sustainable practices
  • Most organizations already have several EMS
    elements in place - the system relationship is
    lacking and can be achieved by adopting the
    formal framework
  • Success comes from following the framework and
    being committed to implementation and maintenance

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EPA Region 8 EMS Integrating Electronics
Stewardship
Kim Bartels USEPA Region 8
  • FEC Partner Call
  • April 2009

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US building sector footprint
Its all about reducing our footprint
Keep the facilitys environmental footprint low,
and lead by example, using the building as a
learning lab and a teaching tool in the following
ways
  • Integrate EMS with LEED EB certification
  • Participate in EPA voluntary greening programs
  • Develop and maintain an integrated performance
    tracking system

Average savings of green buildings
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How do we keep our footprint small?
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Who are the R8 EMS players?
Management Champions
  • Recycling
  • Electronics Stewardship
  • Property Waste Mgmt.
  • Fleets, Fuels Supplies
  • Facilities
  • Records
  • Purchasing
  • Communication
  • Alternative Transportation
  • Green Roof

LEED EB Team
GreenOps Team
EMS Core Team
Integrated Performance Tracking Team
EMS Auditors
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Current Environmental Management Programs (EMPs)
in place under the Region 8 EMS
  • Water Conservation and Efficiency
  • Transportation
  • Recycling Solid Waste Management
  • Hazardous Waste/Universal Waste Management
  • Facility Sustainable Design Operation
  • Energy Management
  • Electronic Stewardship

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Region 8 Electronics Stewardship EMP
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Region 8 Electronics Stewardship EMP
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Other Elements of the Region 8 Electronics
Stewardship EMP
  • Other Sections
  • Operational Controls
  • Relevant reference documents
  • Legal other requirements
  • Program Leads Listed
  • Information Systems Program
  • Pollution Prevention
  • Infrastructure/Facilities

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Promoting our Electronics Stewardship Activities
  • R8 Green Building Green Operations web page
    http//epa.gov/region8/building/
  • Electronics Stewardship EMP Summary for
    distribution to employees
  • New and revised electronic stewardship policies
  • Electronics Stewardship Procurement (Purchasing
    EPEAT Environmentally Preferable IT Products)
  • Power Management
  • IT Asset Management
  • Paper Consumption Reporting

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Questions?
  • Kim Bartels
  • EPA Region 8
  • (303) 312-6346
  • bartels.kim_at_epa.gov

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Integration of the Federal Electronics Challenge
into an Environmental Management System
Bruce Angle, EMS Manager Idaho National
Laboratory
April 2, 2009
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Background
  • Idaho National Laboratory
  • Operated for the Department of Energy by Battelle
    Energy Alliance, LLC
  • 4,000 employees
  • 6,000 computers
  • 10,000 LCD displays
  • Four major campuses spread over 580 square miles
  • ISO 14001 Environmental Management System since
    2002

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Why has FEC succeeded at INL?
  • It was an accident of birth
  • The Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC) was born
    into a suitable family
  • The right timing
  • The right resources
  • The right environment
  • The right support
  • The right need

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What Makes INL Suitable?
  • Size
  • Small organizations integrate requirements well
    if everyone can see the whole picture.
    Typically, they can operate very informally.
  • Large organizations integrate requirements well
    if they are large enough that they need to have a
    formal structure, with organizational
    specialization.
  • INL is large, has a formal organization, well
    defined roles and responsibilities.

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What Makes INL Suitable?
  • Our relationship with the Department of Energy
    (DOE)
  • DOE gives us very specific direction through our
    contract and through the DOE Order system.
  • DOE expectations for our performance are well
    defined, and communicated throughout INL
  • We operate in a regulated environment and have
    had to learn to deal with regulations and
    requirements
  • INL has effective systems in place to identify
    requirements and assign them to appropriate
    owners within the organization

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What Makes INL Suitable?
  • INLs organization structure
  • INL has 18 management systems, including the
    Environmental Management System
  • Each management system is responsible to identify
    requirements within its functional area and
    distribute those requirements to the other
    managements systems as appropriate for
    implementation
  • Each management system is also responsible to
    implement the requirements distributed to them by
    the other management systems

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What Makes INL Suitable?
  • ISO 14001 Registration
  • INLs EMS has all of the elements that have been
    determined to be needed for an EMS to be
    effective
  • The ability to identify and manage requirements
  • The use of Objectives and Targets to focus on
    particular needs

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What Makes INL Suitable?
  • Senior management buy-in and support
  • Management is interested, engaged, and supports
    FEC with appropriate resources
  • FEC is recognized as the right thing to do
  • Personnel at all levels in the organization
    recognize the benefits of participation in FEC,
    are willing to do their part, and encourage their
    peers to participate as well
  • Personnel recognize that we have a lot of
    electronics, and we need to manage them
    responsibly.

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Our Formula for Success
  • We recognize that electronics are everywhere and
    since they are essential to INL operations, they
    need to be managed responsibly
  • We have a formal organization that manages
    requirements well
  • We have clear direction
  • We have an effective EMS with the tools needed to
    do the job
  • We have strong support from the bottom to the top
    of the organization

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Contact
  • Bruce Angle, EMS Manager
  • Bruce.Angle_at_inl.gov
  • 208 526-1841
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