The
environmental analysis or environmental aspects
and impacts identification process is one of the most important part of any
environmental Management System (EMS). As it lays the foundation for how the
management system will run in the future and environmental improvements it
should address. In basis terms, it will assess the environmental risk.
Environmental Aspect is defined as an element of
a community’s activities or services that can interact with the environment.
Environment Impact is any change to the environment, whether
adverse or beneficial, wholly or
partially resulting from a community’s activities or services.
Identifying and Evaluating Environmental Aspects and
Impacts,
there are numerous techniques and data sources to assist you in identifying and
evaluating environmental aspects and impacts at your facility. You may already
have experience using some of these techniques at your facility. Note that much
of the data you have collected to date will be useful as you identify
environmental aspects and determine their significance.
Please find
the below sample procedure of ENVIRONMENTAL
ASPECTS & IMPACTS – EVALUATION OF COMPLIANCE
DEVINANDHA CONSTRUCTIONS
LIMITED
(DNCL)
ENVIRONMENTAL
ASPECTS & IMPACTS – EVALUATION OF COMPLIANCE
DNCL/ISP/003 | Rev 00 | 22.05.2013
Based on;
ISO
14001:2004 – Environmental Management System &
OHSAS 18001:2007 - Occupational Health & Safety
Assessment Series
Copy
Number: ________MASTER COPY______ issued to: ____Management Representative__
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1.0. PURPOSE
To identify the environmental
aspects involved in the different activities if DNCL, products and services to
determine those have a significant impact and to periodically review them
2.0. SCOPE
The scope of this procedure covers all activities, procedures and
services that the company can control or over which it may have some control,
taking into consideration the following:
- Legal
requirements
- Emission
to air
- Release
to Water
- Contamination
of land
- Waste
of all types and waste management
- Use
of Raw materials and natural resources
- Environmental
and community issue
- Noise,
odor and visual impacts.
And the following
conditions
- Normal conditions
- Start
up Conditions
- Shutdown
conditions
- Reasonably
fore see able or emergency conditions
3.0. REFERENCES
§ ISO
14001:2004 Clause 4.3.1
§ DNCL IMS
Manual
§ Bahrain
Environmental Directorate Legal Requirements
4.0. ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Management representative, HSE
Officers and Department Heads are responsible for implementation of this
procedure.
5.0. INPUT & OUTPUT
5.1. INPUT
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Activity, processes & services
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Various data from manufacturers
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Initial environmental review (if any)
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Accident/incident data
5.2. OUTPUT
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Conducting Assessment
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Significant Aspect Register
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Evaluation of environmental aspects & impacts and
controls.
6.0. PROCEDURE
6.1. Environmental Aspect-Impact
study shall be reviewed annually or whenever there is a new or change in
activity, process or services f DNCL.
The steps involved in
identification of environmental aspects are
1. Selection of activities/
products/ services
2. Identification of environmental
aspects related to activities/ products/ services
3. Identification of environmental
impacts resulted from those aspects.
4. Assessment of impacts and
determination of their significance.
Step 1: Selection of
activities/ products/ services
1.1. HSE Officers shall initiate
this activity and shall be carried out department wise.
1.2. This will be carried out by a
team consisting of HSE officers, HSE Managers, Supervisors and consultants/ advisors (if required).
1.3. Each activities/ products/
services will be identified by a unique identification.
1.4. All the above results will be
recorded in DNCL Environmental
Aspect-Impact Assessment register (DNCL-ISP-FM-009-40)
1.5. HSE Manager along with HSE
officers will review and update all the activities/ products/ services minimum
once in a Year or when there is a change or new activities/ products/ services
has been introduced to DNCL.
Step 2: Identification of
Environmental Aspects of activities/ products/ services
2.1. Based on history or any
possible data collected on a given activities/ products/ services the team will
determine the environmental aspects to each activities/ products/ services and
the results shall be recorded.
2.2. Where there is no initial data
available then experience and knowledge on
each activities/
products/ services will be considered.
2.3. HSE Manager shall update
whenever a new aspect is detected or in the event of new Legal and/ or other
requirement are introduced which may have an impact on DNCL activities/
products/ services.
Step 3: Identification of Environmental Impacts
3.1. The designated team shall
identify the impact associated with each and every environmental aspect using
past history, current situation and potential impacts and any legal and other
requirements and business exposure that may affect the company.
3.2. The following areas will be
considered for the identification of impacts
- Air
Pollution
- Water
Pollution
- Land
contamination
3.3. The HSE officer shall record
the results of impact studies.
Step 4: Assessment of
impacts and determination of significance
4.1. Environmental impacts could be
grouped into significant and non-significant ones.
4.2. The criteria used to determine
whether the environmental aspect is significant or non-significant are;
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Legal & regulatory significance
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Severity
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Probability
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Business concern
4.3. Each concern shall be graded
as;
- Very Low
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Very high
4.4. Severity of an aspect will be
based on legal and regulatory requirements and impact it caused.
4.5. Probability of an aspect is
determined from its probability of occurrence.
4.6. Business concern will be based
on cost, concern of interested parties, and effect on public image.
4.7. Based on the grading the
significance will be determined.
4.8. The following table is will be
used to find out the significance.
Criteria
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Description
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Score
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class
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Normal
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N
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Abnormal
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A
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Emergency
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E
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Value of Existing
control
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Very Low
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4
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Low
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3
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Medium
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2
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High
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1
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Very High
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0
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Legal
Requirements
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Very Low
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1
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Low
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2
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Medium
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3
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High
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4
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Very High
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5
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Severity
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Very Low
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1
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Low
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2
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Medium
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3
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High
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4
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Very High
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5
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Probability
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Very Low
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1
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Low
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2
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Medium
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3
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High
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4
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Very High
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5
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Effect on other
A/P/S
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Very Low
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1
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Low
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2
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Medium
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3
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High
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4
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Very High
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5
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Cost
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Very Low
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5
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Low
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4
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Medium
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3
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High
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2
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Very High
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1
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Concern
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Very Low
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1
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Low
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2
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Medium
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3
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High
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4
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Very High
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5
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damage
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Very Low
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1
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Low
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2
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Medium
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3
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High
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4
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Very High
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5
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4.9. The level of significance is
decided based on the addition of scores,
Total Score
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Level of significance
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1 – 15
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Insignificant
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Above 16
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Significant
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4.10. All the above aspect-impact
study shall be reviewed by HSE Officer and MR.
4.11. During Environment Aspect
Impact Assessment all existing control measures will be checked for
effectiveness and efficiency will be revised if required.
7.0. MEASUREMENT & ANALYSIS
DATA
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SOURCE
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Environmental
Aspect identification and evaluation of significance impacts
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Aspect-Impact
register
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8.0.
REFERENCE DOCUMENTS & RECORDS
The distribution register and master set will be maintained
by Management Representative.
DESCRIPTION
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RECORD
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RESPONSIBILITY
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RETENTION
PERIOD
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Environment Aspect-Impact register
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(DNCL/ISP/FM-009-51)
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MR
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3 YRS
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List of Significant Aspects & Impacts
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(DNCL/ISP/FM-009-52)
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MR
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3 YRS
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9.0.
AMENDMENTS
AMENDMENT HISTORY
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DETAILS OF AMENDMENT
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DATE
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