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Zero Defect Consulting ServicesAspect & Impact Study

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Environmental aspects are the building blocks of your EMS!!

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ISO14001 RequirementISO14001 requires:

– “the organization shall establish and maintain a procedure to identify the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that it can control and over which it can be expected to have an influence, in order to determine those which have or can have significant impacts on the environment”

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What is an Environmental aspect?

• ISO14001 defines an environmental aspect as an:

– “element of an organization’s activities, products or services that can interact with the environment”

• Aspects can be

– regulated or non-regulated

– positive or negative

– controlled or influenced by the organization

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What is an Environmental aspect?

• Examples:-

• Emission to air

• Generation of cotton waste

• Consumption of fuel

• Consumption of Raw materials

• Consumption of power

• Etc..

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Environmental ImpactsISO14001 defines environmental impact as:

– “any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization’s activities, products or services”

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Examples of Impacts

• General

– depletion of natural resources

– destruction of habitats

• Water

– pH

– oxygen level

– toxicity

• Air

– air toxicity

– smog

– global Warming

– ozone Depletion

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Procedure for Aspect & Impact Study

1. Identify the Activities/area/product/service

2. Prepare Mass Balance Diagram

3. Identify the environmental aspects

4. Identify the environmental impacts

5. Evaluate significance

6. Manage the significant aspects

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Procedure for Aspect & Impact Study

1. Identify the Activities/area/product/service

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Procedure for Aspect & Impact Study

2. Prepare Mass Balance Diagram

For all activities, identify inputs,outputs, wastes generated, emission and represent in a schematic.

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Procedure for Aspect & Impact Study

3. Identify the environmental aspects

Use following for identifying the aspects

• Initial review data

• Site inspection

• Legal compliance

• Consumption of natural resources

• Etc..

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Procedure for Aspect & Impact Study

4. Identify the environmental Impacts

For each of the aspect, identify what is the impact on the environment.

• Use experts opinion/guidance

• Use past data/incident reports

• Refer MSDS

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Procedure for Aspect & Impact Study

5. Evaluate the significance

Check for any emergency situation, Legal requirements, impact on interested parties & resource saving potential.

If any of these are selected, such aspects should be considered as significant aspect

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6. Manage significant Aspects

Consider significant aspects for setting environmental objectives & targets.

Consider following actions also

• Develop Environmental Management Program

• Evolve Operational Control Procedure

• Monitoring & Measurement Plan

• PPE Plan

• Training Plan

• Emergency Response Plan

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