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ISO 14001:2004 Aspects And Impacts

ISO 14001:2004 Aspects And Impacts. Overview. Definitions of aspect, impact, significant aspect Recognize importance of significant aspects to the EMS Learn about aspects identification. 2. Prevention rather than corrective. Manage “how” the business interacts with environment

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ISO 14001:2004 Aspects And Impacts

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  1. ISO 14001:2004Aspects And Impacts

  2. Overview Definitions of aspect, impact, significant aspect Recognize importance of significant aspects to the EMS Learn about aspects identification 2

  3. Prevention rather than corrective • Manage “how” the business interacts with environment • Rather than manage “what” the business has done to the environment • EMS is built around • identifying, • prioritizing, • controlling, and • improving upon, those elements of the organization that interact with the environment

  4. Benefits • Prompts organizations to identify issues not typically managed; particularly non-regulated issues • Integrates environmental issues into operations

  5. Definitions • Aspect: “Element of an organisation’s activities or products or services that can interact with the environment.” • Impact: “Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partly resulting from an organization’s environmental aspects.”

  6. Example

  7. Step 1: Identify Aspects • Select an activity, a product or service • Identify as many environmental aspects as possible associated with the selected activity, product or service. • Identify as many actual and potential, positive and negative, environmental impacts associated with each identified aspect.

  8. What do aspects look like? • Aspects include: • Emissions to air • Emissions to water • Surface and groundwater • Solid Waste disposal / land contamination • Raw material / natural resource use • Energy, water, chemicals, lumber, etc. • Local environmental / community issues • noise, odour, land use, appearance, etc.

  9. What aspects are not! • Improve air quality – this is an objective • Vehicle maintenance – this is a activity • Water pollution – this is an impact

  10. Where to find information? • Process flow diagrams • Interviews with supervisors, managers, staff • Hazardous material inventories • Hazardous waste records • Records from emergency planning, accident reports, emergency incidents • Water and energy consumption records

  11. Step 2: Determine Significant Aspects • Significant aspect is one that has or can have a significant impact on the environment • Criteria for significance rating and cut-off value • Significance can be determined by numeric cut-off value or subjective assessment based on yes/no answers

  12. Why significant aspects and impacts? • ISO 14001 uses significant aspects and impacts as basis for developing objectives and preparing programs. • Once significant, the EMS must address the aspect.

  13. Aspects and Impacts Understanding • Be comprehensive • Do not pre-judge! • Sort by activity, product, or service; and identify impacts • “Aspect” is considered significant although environmental impact is used to make significance determination • Aspects not considered significant will not be carried through the system • Significant aspects affect and drive all other parts of system! “If you must control, it must be significant”.

  14. Process Flow

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