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Julie Woosley, EMS Development Course
Coordinator, DPPEA |
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Course Meeting 1: July 24, 2001 |
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Julie - Course overview; developing your EMS
Team; odds and ends |
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Beth Eckert, City of Gastonia - Benefits |
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Lunch |
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Beth Graves, DPPEA – ISO 14001 Standard |
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John Burke, DPPEA - Initial environmental review |
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Julie – Getting started with implementation;
benefits; environmental policy statement; homework |
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DPPEA |
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Julie Woosley, EMS Development Course
Coordinator |
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Beth Graves, EMS Project Coord. |
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Barb Satler, Pork Producers EMS Project Coord. |
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John Burke, EMS Pilot Project |
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Coaches |
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Participants |
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Webpages: |
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Course: http://www.p2pays.org/iso/govcourse/ |
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and more resources:
http://www.p2pays.org/iso/ |
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Dates – Tuesday ok? |
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Extend days to 4 PM ok? |
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No such thing as a free lunch |
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Locations? |
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Raleigh always?
Move around NC? |
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Central NC, Western NC? |
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Limited by free space |
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Be enthusiastic |
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Attend all courses |
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Complete homework and bring to course |
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Keep in touch with your coach |
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Persevere |
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Ask for help |
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Be Creative |
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Keep developing your EMS between course meetings
and after the course ends |
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Coach |
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Website |
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Staff
experience, support |
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Development Tools |
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Speakers who have implemented an EMS |
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Speakers to help you integrate pollution
prevention techniques into your EMS |
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Free technical assistance and training |
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A forum to help each other; contacts |
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Publicity |
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Certificate of completion |
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What form? |
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Press Release(s) – individual or separate? |
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Now or at course end? |
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Fact sheet |
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Case Studies |
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Use of your facility name in Division
publications |
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When? |
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now |
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middle of class, once underway |
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at graduation |
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all of the above |
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Share your EMS policy statement, manual, and
development tools to help us teach others |
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Let us write a case study about your EMS or
related projects and activities |
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Be an advocate |
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The ISO 14001 Standard |
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our guide for this development course |
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EMS Team |
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Drawing your “Fenceline” |
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Benefits |
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This afternoon: “Road maps” |
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The standard is copywritten and must be
purchased |
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Three sources in U.S.: see http://www.p2pays.org/iso/isoinfo.htm |
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EMS Coordinator – Project Champion |
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Team Members: What to consider |
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Who is enthusiastic? |
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Size of facility – how big a team? |
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Departments/Buildings/Management/ Staff involved
– are all represented? |
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A cross-functional team will help to ensure that
the EMS is both practical and effective |
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Involvement builds commitment and “ownership” of
the EMS |
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Include contractors, suppliers, and other
external parties? |
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Don’t leave it all for the “environmental guy”! |
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Initial EMS Team Meeting |
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EMS background training |
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Management support |
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Objectives in implementing an EMS |
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Role of EMS Team |
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Responsibilities |
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Include contractors, health/safety? |
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Timeline |
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Ways to get started – “road maps” |
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Meet frequently at first to work on course
homework: |
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Initial environmental review, legal
requirements, policy statement |
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Look at your resources first - you may or may
not choose to hire consultants |
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Get references and check. Look for experience with small
organizations |
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Use consultants for resources, examples,
experience |
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Project Scope: Where to implement your EMS |
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Department |
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Building |
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Process |
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Start small, then expand – “pilot” |
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If you start too big, it’s easy to get
frustrated and overwhelmed and quit |
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Why are you implementing an EMS? |
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Struggling to stay in compliance and keep track
of regulations/laws |
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Env. management just one of many
responsibilities |
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Establish a framework to move beyond compliance |
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Vehicle for positive change; improved employee
morale, enhanced public image |
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Employee turnover |
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Many individual parts may already |
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be in place – just need to unify under |
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the EMS umbrella! |
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Helps to identify the root causes of
environmental problems. |
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better to make a product right the first time |
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cheaper to prevent a spill |
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cost effective to prevent pollution |
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Trade and competitive issues |
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inconsistency in environmental regulation and
enforcement |
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Problems faced: |
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aging infrastructure |
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more stringent environmental laws and
regulations |
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customer interests |
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limited resource base (human and financial) |
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private sector competition |
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Operating costs at the water plant reduced
$175,000 by using only necessary equipment |
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Records management costs reduced 10% for 1999 |
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Employees and managers are more aware of the
environmental policy and their role in it |
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EMS is "System Dependent" rather than
"Person Dependent" |
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It helps drive continual improvement |
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Customer inquiries are handled efficiently |
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Strengthens CPW’s record of leadership |
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Aspects identification has greatly improved
employee awareness and involvement |
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Skill-based knowledge of the staff has
substantially increased |
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Operational deficiencies have been identified |
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Potential Costs: |
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Internal – Labor |
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Manager time |
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Employee time |
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External |
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Outside training |
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Consultants (opt.) |
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Travel to this course |
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Potential Benefits: |
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Improved env. performance |
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Enhanced compliance |
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Prevention of pollution |
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Increased efficiency |
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Reduced costs |
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Enhanced public image |
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Enhanced relationship with regulators |
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Employee awareness of env. issues and
responsibilities |
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Decreased loss of knowledge, dec. operating
problems when employees leave/ are on leave |
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Management confidence |
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Employee pride |
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Image as a leader/ innovator |
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Notes