Green Profits (eBook)

The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention

Avrom Bendavid-Val, Nicholas P Cheremisinoff (Autoren)

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2001 | 1. Auflage
356 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-050760-6 (ISBN)

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Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored by an environmental engineer and an economist/planner, Green Profits shows how to implement an EMS, especially ISO 14001, so that it leads to profitable pollution prevention innovations, and how to identify and implement pollution prevention measures in a sound strategic business framework. Green Profits provides the knowledge and tools for enterprise managers to achieve the benefits of both EMS and P2, and to do so in ways that fit in with existing management systems in their enterprises.

Environmental management systems are planned and organized ways for an enterprise to manage its interactions with the environment, in particular those interactions that consume resources, degrade the environment, and create human health risk. Part I of Green Profits provides a thorough and practical understanding of the elements of EMSs in general and ISO 14001 in particular, tools and techniques for implementing an EMS and achieving ISO 14001 certification, and help with getting the implementation process started.

Pollution prevention involves replacing process technologies that generate pollution with those that do not or that do so much less. It focuses on improving production processes to minimize waste rather than treating effluents or emissions, which add to costs. Part II of Green Profits provides tools such as step-by-step guides to conducting a P2 audit and energy and material balances for identifying P2 opportunities in an enterprise, examples of P2 practices in specific industry sectors, and a set of tools for assessing potential P2 investments from a bottom-line point of view.



With this New Handbook -- ? Bring your facility into compliance ? Improve your corporate image ? Reduce your company's environmental liabilities ? Identify and save millions of dollars from pollution prevention projects

This New Handbook Includes -- ? A step-by-step approach to implementing ISO 14001 ? A step-by-step approach to implementing Pollution Prevention ? Contains nearly 100 useful charts and tables used by the experts in establishing environmental action plans, gap analyses, establishing an Environmental Management System ? Contains dozens of useful charts and calculation methods with examples for evaluating the costs and savings to your company in implementing Pollution Prevention ? Dozens of industry-specific case studies that you can learn and profit from
? Shows you in stepwise fashion how project financing principles and environmental cost accounting methods, when coupled with EMS can save your company money

This New Handbook is unique because unlike other volumes that separately cover Environmental Management Systems and Pollution Prevention, you have it all in one single volume, written by Experts that are Practitioners.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention 2
Copyright Page 3
Contents 4
Preface 8
Acknowledgements 14
Abbreviations 15
ROAD MAP TO PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 22
CHAPTER 1. EMS: PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS 25
The Basics of an EMS: What Is It, and Why Do It 25
What the ISO 14001 Standard Is All About 28
Essential Elements of the ISO 14001 EMS 33
One More Time 36
Questions for Thinking and Discussing 37
CHAPTER 2. EMS: APPLIED MODELS 39
ISO 14001 and Implementation Overview 39
Environmental Policy (Clause 4.2) 43
Planning: Environmental Aspects (Subclause 4.3.1) 50
Planning: Legal and Other Requirements (Subclause 4.3.2) 57
Planning: Objectives and Targets (Subclause 4.3.3) 58
Planning: Environmental Management Programs (Subclause 4.3.4) 66
Implementation and Operation: Structure and Responsibility (Subclause 4.4.1) 71
Implementation and Operation: Training, Awareness, and Competence (Subclause 4.4.2) 75
Implementation and Operation: Communication (Subclause 4.4.3) 79
Implementation and Operation: EMS Documentation (Subclause 4.4.4) 81
Implementation and Operation: Document Control (Subclause 4.4.5) 84
Implementation and Operation: Operational Control (Subclause 4.4.6) 87
Implementation and Operation: Emergency Preparedness and Response (Subclause 4.4.7) 90
Checking and Corrective Action: Monitoring and Measurement (Subclause 4.5.1) 92
Checking and Corrective Action: Nonconformance and Corrective and Preventative Action (Subclause 4.5.2) 96
Checking and Corrective Action: Records (Subclause 4.5.3) 100
Checking and Corrective Action: EMS Audit (Subclause 4.5.4) 102
Management Review (Clause 4.6) 108
One More Time 113
Two Exercises 114
Questions for Thinking and Discussing 120
CHAPTER 3. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES 122
Using this Chapter 122
Before Policy 124
Environmental Policy (Clause 4.2) 126
Planning: Environmental Aspects (Subclause 4.3.1) 130
Planning: Legal and Other Requirements (Subclause 4.3.2) 139
Planning: Objectives and Targets (Subclause 4.3.3) 140
Planning: Environmental Management Programs (Subclause 4.3.4) 145
Implementation and Operation: Structure and Responsibility (Subclause 4.4.1) 147
Implementation and Operation: Training, Awareness, and Competence (Subclause 4.4.2) 149
Implementation and Operation: Communication (Subclause 4.4.3) 152
Implementation and Operation: EMS Documentation (Subclause 4.4.4) 156
Implementation and Operation: Document Control (Subclause 4.4.5) 162
Implementation and Operation: Operational Control (Subclause 4.4.6) 167
Implementation and Operation: Emergency Preparedness and Response (Subclause 4.4.7) 169
Checking and Corrective Action: Monitoring and Measurement (Subclause 4.5.1) 170
Checking and Corrective Action: Nonconformance and Corrective and Preventative Action (Subclause 4.5.2) 174
Checking and Corrective Action: Records (Subclause 4.5.3) 177
Checking and Corrective Action: EMS Audit (Subclause 4.5.4) 178
Management Review (Clause 4.6) 192
One More Time 193
Exercises 194
Questions for Thinking and Discussing 194
CHAPTER 4. EMS: FIRST STEPS 196
The Benefits of an EMS 196
Initial Environmental Review (IER) and Gap Analysis 198
EMS Lite 209
One More Time 212
Exercises 214
ROAD MAP TO PART II: POLLUTION PREVENTION 215
CHAPTER 5. POLLUTION PREVENTION: PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS 217
The Basics of P2. What Is It, and Why Do It 217
What Pollution Prevention is All About 220
Essential Elements of Pollution Prevention 223
What About Material Waste and Energy? 226
How are P2 and EMS Related? 230
One More Time 231
Questions for Thinking and Discussing 232
CHAPTER 6. INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC POLLUTION PREVENTION PRACTICES 234
Defining P2 One More Time 234
Hierarchy of Pollution Management 235
Why and How Is P2 Done? 236
The P2 Benefits Matrix 250
Industry Specific Guidelines and Practices 254
Questions for Thinking and Discussing 279
CHAPTER 7. THE POLLUTION PREVENTION AUDIT 280
Introduction 280
The Pre-assessment (Phase I) 283
The In-plant Assessment (Part 1 of Phase II) 294
Working with Material Balances 307
The In-plant Assessment (Part 2 of Phase II) 321
Synthesis, Benchmarking, and Corrective Actions (Phase III) 325
One More Time 338
A Summary of All the Steps 339
Questions for Thinking and Discussing 340
CHAPTER 8. FINANCIAL PLANNING TOOLS 342
Introduction 342
Total Cost and Cost Accounting 342
Establishing Baseline Costs 347
Revenues, Expenses, and Cash Flow 352
Interest and Discount Rates 357
Income Taxes 358
Application of Total-Cost Assessment 360
The Life-Cycle Analysis 368
Final Comments 377
Glossary of Important Terms 381
Appendix A: ADDITIONAL ISO 14001 AND POLLUTION PREVENTION RESOURCES 383
Index to Tables 392
Subject Index 396

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-08-050760-3 / 0080507603
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-050760-6 / 9780080507606