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How Environmental Management System

Development Can Enhance Your Company’s Environmental

Health and Safety

Michele FitzpatrickWright-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 organization’s 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 the

Practice 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 H&S 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 Associates214 Thames StreetGroton, CT 06340

phone: 860-446-8087fax: 860-446-8907

michele.fitzpatrick@swe.org