Operational Benefits

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Operational Benefits

• Session 3

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Connecting the Environment and the People

• An EMS helps each member of the organization
  understand their role in the environment, and to
  see how what they do at the facility affects the
  environment
• It provides for responsibility, ownership, and
  accountability of actions and related impacts
• Results? People that are more aware, better
  trained, more motivated, and more enthusiastic

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Specific Benefits

• Better awareness of impacts, allowing the
  workforce to make more informed decisions
• Increased suggestions and initiatives
• Additional opportunities to recognize and reward
  performance
• More consistency in operations
• Faster response and more effective corrective
  action when problems occur
• Delegates responsibility to more people, and
  where better addressed

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Environmental Aspects and Impacts

• ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
• Elements of an organizations activities,
  products or services which can interact with the
  environment. Examples include discharges,
  resource consumption, energy usage, ecosystem
  alterations, etc.
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
• Any change to the environment, whether adverse or
  beneficial, wholly or partly resulting from an
  organizations activities, products, or services.
  

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Role of Aspects in the EMS

• Significant aspects drive the EMS
• EMS is designed to identify, control, manage, and
  improve upon the significant aspects
• Compliance with legal and other requirements is a
  part of the system and does relate to the aspects
• Elements such as operational control (procedures
  and work instructions), training, monitoring and
  measurement, emergency planning, and setting
  objectives all depend on significant aspects.