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Join the EMS Development Course and learn about topics such as fenceline, policy statement, meeting management, legal requirements, and more. Develop your EMS between course meetings and after it ends. Participant expectations include attending all courses, completing homework, and staying in touch with your coach.
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Julie WoosleyEMS Development Course Coordinator NC DPPEA August 28, 2001 Topics: • Fenceline • Policy Statement • WATER • EMS Team • Meeting Management • Legal Requirements • Gap Analysis • Homework • Feedback: Plus/Delta Exercise
Ready to Enter New Territory? Don’t Forget Your BACK PACK!
Expectations of Participants: Your BACK PACK! • Be enthusiastic • Attend all courses • Complete homework and bring to course • Keep in touch with your coach • Persevere • Ask for help • Be Creative • Keep developing your EMS between course meetings and after the course ends
Your EMS Team Members will need to add some WATERto their backpack! • Willingness • Agenda • Talking stick • Energy and Enthusiasm • Role understanding
Don’t forget to bring WATER to your meetings! • Willingness • to learn, participate, be innovative and flexible • Agenda • make sure everyone has one ahead of time so they will be prepared • Talking stick • Set up ground rules for meetings- see meeting management handout • Energy and Enthusiasm • Boundless supply • Role understanding • For each meeting, as well as for EMS implementation
EMS Team • Who is on the Team? • How often do you meet? • Running meetings: see Meeting Management handout booklet • Any meeting problems?
Legal Requirements • How did you determine yours? • Remember to include local requirements and solid waste requirements • Aluminum Can Ban, Chapter 130A Public Health Law of North Carolina, 130A-309.10(f) • Fluorescent lamps: NC has adopted the federal change to the Universal Waste Rule • Next: write a procedure for how you will keep your legal requirements up to date • See Barb’s handout • Remember: this can always be changed later if you find that the procedure is not adequate
Gap AnalysisInitial Environmental Review • Which tool did you use/do you plan to use? • Would you recommend the tool you used to others? • What did you find? • What areas are you most lacking in? • What areas are you least lacking in? • Do you feel overwhelmed?
Homework: Aspects and Impacts • Homework for next time: • Identify all of the aspects in your fenceline that do (or could potentially) have an environmental impact • Remember to include everyday operations as well as emergency situations (spills, fires, hurricanes, etc.) • Also consider: transportation of workers and materials to and within the facility; energy, fuel, and water usage; groundskeeping operations; purchasing; recycling; use of hazardous substances, etc.
Plus/Delta Exercise+ / D Feedback: What do you like about this class series and what don’t you like? Anything else? Please let me know! Julie Woosley (919) 715-6527 Julie.Woosley@ncmail.net