Environmental Management System

International Standard specifies requirements for an environmental management system to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy ad objectives which take into account legal requirements and other requirements to which the organisation subscribes, and information about significant environmental aspects. It applies to those environmental aspects that the organization identifies as those which it can control and those which it can influence. It does not itself state specified environmental performance criteria.establish, implement, maintain and improve an environmental management system

1. assure itself of conformity with its stated environmental policy
2. demonstrate conformity with this international standard by

• making a self-determination and self declaration or
• seeking confirmation of its conformance by parties having an interest in the organization, such as customer or
• seeking confirmation of its self-declaration by a party external to the organization, or
• seeking certification/registration of its environmental management system by an external organization.

All the requirements in this international standard are intended to be incorporated into any environmental management system. The extent of the application depend on factors such as the environmental policy of the organization, the nature of its activities, products and services and the location where and the conditions in which it functions.

Environmental Policy

 

Top management shall define the organization’s environmental policy and ensure that, within the defined scope of its environmental management system. It….

• Is appropriate to the nature, scale and environmental impacts of its activities, product and services,
• Include a commitment to continual improvement and prevention of pollution,
• Includes a commitment to comply with applicable legal requirements and with other requirements to which the organization subscribes which relate to its environmental aspects,
• Is documented to all persons working for or on behalf of the organization, and
• Is available to the public

Environmental Aspects

The organization shall establish, implement and maintain a procedures

1. to identify the environmental aspect of its activities, products and services within the defined scope of the environmental management system that it can control and those that it can influence taking into account planned or new developments, or new or modified activities, products and services,
2. to determine those aspects that have or can have significant impacts on the environment (i.e. significant environmental aspects).

The organization shall document this information and keep it up to date.

The organization shall ensure that the significant environmental aspects are taken into account in establishing implementing and maintaining its environmental management system.

Elements on Effluent

Elements summary of Air Emission and Effluent Discharge Requirements Presented in the Industry Guidelines

ADP: Air-dried pulp
Ag: Silver
AOX: Adsorbable organic halides
As: Arsenic
BOD: Biochemical oxygen demand (understood as BOD measured over five days, BOD5)
Cd: Cadmium
Cl: Chlorine
CN: Cyanide
Co: Cobalt
CO: Carbon monoxide
COD: Chemical oxygen demand
Cr+6 : Hexevalent chromium
Cr : total Total chromium
CTMP : Chemical, thermal, mechanical process for producing pulp
Cu : Copper
F : Fluorine
Fe : Iron
g/mm Btu : Grams per million British thermal units
GJ : Gigajoule
HC: Hydrocarbons
HCl: Hydrogen chloride/hydrochloric acid
HF: Hydrogen fluoride/hydrofluoric acid
Hg: Mercury
H2S: Hydrogen sulfide
kg : Kilogram
kg/t: Kilograms per metric ton
mg/l : Milligrams per liter
μg/m3: Micrograms per cubic meter
mg/Nm3: Milligrams per normal cubic meter
MPN/100 ml : Coliform count expressed as most probable number per 100 milliliters
MWe : Megawatts of electricity
N : Nitrogen
ng/J : Nanograms per joule
NH3 Ammonia
NH4: Ammonium nitrogen
Ni : Nickel
NO3: Nitrate nitrogen
NOx: Nitrogen oxide
O&G: Oil and grease
P : Phosphorus
PAH : Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
Pb : Lead
pH : Measure of acidity/alkalinity
PM : Particulate matter
PM2.5: Particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 microns
PM10 : Particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 10 microns
ppm : Parts per million
S: Sulfur
Sb: Antimony
Se: Selenium
Sn: Tin
SO2: Sulfur dioxide
SOx: Sulfur oxides
t :Metric ton
TCE : Trichloroethylene
Temp.: Temperature increase at the edge of increase the zone where initial mixing and dilution take place; where the zone is not defined, 100 meters from the point of discharge is used
t MWe: Metric tons per day per megawatt of electricity
TSS: Total suspended solids
V: Vanadium
VOCs : Volatile organic compounds
WAD : Weak acid dissociable cyanide
Zn: Zinc

Environmental Protection from Waste

Industrial activities currently can result a direct impact and indirect impact to environmental surround the industries location. The impact can be just localize or broaden until kilometers diameter impact. To make a protection to our environment, we should know what should be protected by us as the definition itself.

Environment define as surrounding in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, nature resources, flora and fauna, humans and their interations. Environmental Aspects is elements of organization's, industry or human activites, product or service that can interact with the environment.

Environmental impact is any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization's activities, product or service. All activities of organization can resulting a risk. Risk is the combination of probability and consequences of an occurrences which can be an injury, illness or property damage.

If we all known what the definition and what the limitation of environmental aspect, impact and risk then we should also know the method to analyze for identifying the environment aspect, impacts and hazards and also know how to prevent of negative impact and how to process the waste from industrial of from human activities that can prevent of creating negative impact. These all are concluded on ISO 140001 about management of waste treatment and OHSAS 18001 Occupational healths and Safety that content the rule to limited waste impact to the environmental.