How Environmental Management System Development Can Enhance Your Companys Environmental Health and S

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How Environmental Management System Development
Can Enhance Your Companys Environmental Health
and Safety

• Michele Fitzpatrick
• Wright-Hamilton Associates

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TOPICS

• What is an Environmental Management System (EMS)?
• How EMS relates to ISO 14001
• How EMS relates to Health Safety

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EMS)

• The organizational structure, planning
  activities, responsibilities, practices,
  procedures, processes and resources for
  developing, implementing, maintaining, reviewing,
  and correcting/improving an organizations
  approach to environmental management.

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ISO 14001

• International specification standard
• against which an
• Environmental Management System
• is prepared and audited.

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MISSION(Code of Ethics for thePractice of
Industrial Hygiene)

• Protect the health and well-being of working
  people and the public from chemical,
  microbiological and physical health hazards
  present at, or emanating from, the workplace.

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PREMISE 1

• How you manage the environmental aspects
  identified by your Environmental Management
  System will determine the level of exposure of
  your workers and the public to health and safety
  hazards.

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PREMISE 2

• The development of an
• Environmental Management System will prepare you
  for the development of a Health and Safety
• Management System.

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MAJOR EMS ELEMENTS

• Policy Development
• Identification of Environmental Aspects and
  Impacts
• Documentation and Document Control EMS Manual
• Corrective and Preventive Action
• EMS Audit
• Management Review

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ENVIRONMENTALASPECTS AND IMPACTS

• Identify all processes that affect the
  environment (and/or health and safety)
• Identify relevant rules and regulations and
  procedure for compliance
• Develop program for reducing detrimental effects
  (pollution prevention)

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HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• BS 8800 - health and safety standard developed by
  the British Standards Institute in 1996
• OHSAS 18001 - Occupational Health and Safety
  Assessment Series developed by the British
  Standards Institute in 1999
• ISO ? - AIHA may seek chairmanship of ISO HS
  Committee for the U.S.

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CONCLUSION

• EMS Pollution Prevention Program Source
  Reduction Reduced Exposure
• Prepare for future Health and Safety Standard

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Michele Fitzpatrick
• Wright-Hamilton Associates
• 214 Thames Street
• Groton, CT 06340
• phone [phone]
• fax [phone]
• michele.fitzpatrick_at_swe.org