1. Environmental Aspects & Impacts
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2. Definitions Environment Environmental Aspects Environmental Impacts
Surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water , land , natural resources flora, fauna, humans and their interrelations.
Environmental Aspects
Element of an organization’s activities , products or services that can interact with the environment.
Environmental Impacts
Any change to the environment , whether adverse or beneficial , wholly or partially resulting from an organization's activities, products or services

3. Impacts The elements, which are exposed to these risks / impacts , are
Material
Equipments

4. Impacts
More specifically the Impacts to these elements are further broken down into the followings:
Material : Resource Depletion (RD)
Resource Wastage (RW)
Environment : Air Pollution (AP)
Water Pollution (WP)
Land Contamination (LC)
Noise Pollution (NP)
Fire Hazard (FH)
ISO 14001

5. Resource Depletion Input Materials Energy Electricity Fuels
Liquid fuel
Solid fuel
Water

6. Air Pollution Controlled Emission Fugitive Emissions
Emissions from stacks
Emissions from automobiles
Fugitive Emissions
Storage locations
Materials transport
Materials handling
Vehicular movements

7. Water Pollution Storm water Discharges Process Discharges
Vehicle/equipment/floor cleaning
Laboratory discharges
Spillage/leaks
Process Discharges
Liquid contaminants
Solid contaminants

8. Land Contamination Process Discharges Leakage / Spillage liquid solid
storage
Transportation
Littered material

9. Noise Pollution
Continuous Noise
Impact Noise

10. Noise Pollution
All the activities that are carried out in an organization may not have any aspect that interacts with Environment
Example :
Coordination with HR
Meetings
Marketing of products

11. Impacts
All the aspects of an activity do not interact with Environment.
Hence identify only those aspects which have either beneficial or adverse impact on Environment.

12. Inventory of Activities
Prepare an inventory of all activities in an Organization
Pay, due consideration to
Activities carried out in respective areas of operation
Activities carried out by sub-contracted personnel
Other activities over which organization have indirect control
A single activity may have multiple aspects
Example : Planning, production, maintenance, dispatch,
transportation of final product from the plant to the
customer etc.

13. Operating Conditions
These impacts/risks may be different under different operating conditions.
Hence aspect identification needs to take into consideration all the following conditions:
Normal Operating Condition
Abnormal Operating Condition
Emergency Operating Condition

14. Operating Conditions Normal Conditions Abnormal Conditions
Those conditions which exist as a result of routine operations according to normal operating procedures.
Abnormal Conditions
Those conditions which exist as a result of non-routine operations including start-up and shut-down conditions.
Emergency Conditions
Incidents, accidents and potential emergency situations like fire, traffic accident, explosion, flood and malicious damage.

15. Examples Activity, it's Aspects & their Impacts / Risks
Activity Aspects Impacts Condition
Stacking of Dust loading in the Air Pollution Normal
Raw Material atmosphere due to
greater fall heights
Stacking/Storage Oil spills on Resource Wastage Normal
of waste oil/grease ground due to
filled drums improper handling
& stacking
2. Oil spills on Land Normal
ground due to Contamination
improper handling
Cleaning of Dust loading in Air Pollution Abnormal
Cyclone jam atmosphere

16. Rating Scale for
Register of Aspects-Impact
&
Occupational Health & Safety Risk

17. P-E-M-E is broken down into
Material : Resource Depletion (RD)
Resource Wastage (RW)
Environment : Air Pollution (AP)
Water Pollution (WP)
Land Contamination (LC)
Noise Pollution (NP)
Radiation Pollution (RP)
Thermal Pollution (TP)

18. ISO 14001 : 1999 Air Pollution Water Pollution Land Contamination
Noise Pollution
Resource Wastage
Resource Depletion
Thermal Pollution
Radiation Pollution

19. Rating Scale Legislation Severity Frequency of Occurrence Control
Detection

20. Rating Scale Legislation Y = Meeting Legislation
N = Not Meeting Legislation
NA= Legislation not applicable

21. Rating Scale
Severity 3 2 1
Suitable Explanation for OH, OS, ED & PD

22. Rating Scale Frequency of occurance 3 2 1
Suitable Explanation for OH, OS, ED & PD

23. Rating Scale Control 3 = Absence of Effective Control
2 = Mechanism in place but Not Reliable
1 = Available and Effective

24. Rating Scale Total (F) = B*C*D*E B = Severity
C = Frequency of Occurrence
D = Control
E = Detection

25. Identification & Prioritization Control
Inventory of Activities
Activities with Impact / Risk
Significant Activities
Operational Control
EMP/ OHSMP

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