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Appendix A: Workshop Training for Module 1
EMS Guide Meat Processing
Getting Started
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EMS ImplementationOverview
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How Did We Get Here?
• US EPA Sustainable Industries Partnership Program
– Began working with meat processors in 1998.
– Conducted backward mapping analysis.
– Validated findings with stakeholders and developed the program.
• Industry partnership agreement• EMS
• External stewardship with livestock suppliers• Compliance tools• Other issues (chloride phosphorus and rendering)
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The Guidance Manual
• Developed specifically for meat processors.
• 10 Modules to complement 10 Workshops.
• Send out electronically in future to facilitate using tools and worksheets.
• Revised at the end of pilot.
• Comments/suggestions welcome at any time.
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Pilot Project Goals
• To develop an EMS at your plant over the next year.
• To test the Meat Processing EMS Implementation Guidance.
• To demonstrate the benefits of implementing an EMS to other meat processors.
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Overview of Pilot Project Process
• Workshops (10 - about once per month).
• Homework.
• Bi-weekly conference calls.
• Site visits.
• One-on-one technical assistance.
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Workshops
• Each plant must have at least one person in attendance at every workshop.
• Combination lecture and hands-on activities.
• Ask questions at anytime.
• Use the time in the workshops to your advantage.
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Workshops
• Scheduling
– Whole year or at each meeting?
– Time of day?
– Where?
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Homework
• Building new elements of EMS or adapting what you have for your EMS.
• Everyone is expected to keep up with the group.
• Do a little bit of the EMS at one time with help.
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Bi-weekly Conference Calls
• Each plant should have someone on each conference call.
• Help and support for EMS.
• Chance to ask questions.
• Learn from others in the group.
• Schedule.
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Site Visits
• Four are planned, but more can happen if needed.
• IWRC and IDNR operate confidentially.
• Concentrated one-on-one help.
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Technical Assistance
• One-on-one help via the phone or e-mail.
• Confidential.
• Available anytime during the process.
• Support for your EMS.
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Feedback
• We believe in continual improvement, if there is a better way - tell us.
• Bad news should travel fast.
– If it isn’t working don’t quit - let us know so that we can try and fix it.
• Implementing an EMS isn’t easy, but nothing worth having is easy.
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EMS Refresher
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EMS Framework
Plan
Do
Check
Act
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Plan
• Where are we? Where do we want to go?– Environmental policy.
– Identify environmental impacts (aspects).
– Identify legal and other requirements.
– Prioritize.
– Set objectives and targets.
– Establish environmental programs.
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Do
• Put programs and resources in place to get where you want to go.
– Structure and responsibility.
– Training.
– Communication.
– EMS documentation and records.
– Operational control.
– Emergency preparedness and response.
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Check
• Ensure your goals are met.
– Monitor and measure.
– Identify non-conformances.
– Corrective and preventive action.
– Audit and assess.
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Act
• Improve system when, and if, needed.– Management review.
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Relationship Among Environmental Management System Elements
ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS
ENVIRONMENTALPOLICY
OBJECTIVES &TARGETS
ENVIRONMENTALASPECTS
LEGAL & OTHERREQUIREMENTS
MANAGEMENTPROGRAMS
OPERATIONALCONTROLS
MONITORING & MEASUREMENT
MANAGEMENTREVIEW
TRAININGCORRECTIVE &
PREVENTIVEACTION
EMSAUDITINGDOCUMENTATION
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Environmental Policy
• Appropriate to the nature, scale, and environmental impacts of activities, products or services.
• Commitment to continual improvement and P2.• Commitment to comply with regulations.• Provides framework for setting and reviewing
objectives and targets.• Documented, implemented, and maintained and
communicated to all employees.• Available to public.
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Environmental Aspects
• Procedure to identify aspects
• Activities, products, or services
• Controllable
• Have significant impact on the environment
• Prioritize
– Potential harm
– Frequency
– Regulated
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Environmental Aspects
• Employees
• Environmental aspects
• Process flow chart
• Process hazard analysis
• Emission inventory
• Risk assessment
• Compliance audit
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Environmental Aspects
ASPECTS
• Packaging waste.
• Refrigerant use.
• Transportationemissions.
IMPACTS
• Increased material to landfill.
• Depletion of ozone.
• Degradation of air quality.
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Objectives
• Objectives - overall environmental goal.
• Targets - detailed performance requirement.
• Documented.
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Objectives / Targets
OBJECTIVES
• Reduce packaging waste.
• Utilize different refrigerants.
• Reduce vehicle emissions.
TARGETS
• Reduce packaging waste by 5% in 5 years.
• Research alternative refrigerants – ongoing.
• Evaluate vehicle usage by December 2001.
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Legal Requirements
• Procedure to identify legal requirements.
• USEPA.
• US Small Business Administration.
• State Agencies.
• Trade/Industry Associations.
• Internet.
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Environmental Programs
• Describes how company will achieve objectives and targets.
• Designates responsibility.
• Defines the means and time frame.
• Integrate with existing programs and business plans.
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Structure and Responsibility
• Top management support.
• Roles, responsibility, and authority well defined, communicated, and documented.
• Ensures that EMS requirements are established, implemented, and maintained.
• Reports on the performance of the EMS to top management.
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Training, Awareness, and Competence
• Identify training needs.
• Establish training and awareness procedures.
• Match training to potential environmental impacts.
• Track effectiveness.
• Improve training as needed.
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Communication
• Procedures for internal and external communication.
• Between levels and functions of the company.
• Receive, document, and respond to relevant communication from external parties.
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EMS Documentation
• Describes the core elements of the EMS such as the policy, objectives and targets, structure and responsibility, etc.
• Provides direction to related documentation such as training records.
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Document Control
• Have procedures for document control.
• Specific location for documents.
• Periodic review of documents.
• Documents are current - obsolete versions are removed.
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Operational Control
• Decide which activities need documented procedures.
• Risk/complexity of activity.
• Skills/training.
• Degree of frequency.
• Procedures and requirements for suppliers and contractors.
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Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Procedure for identifying response to accidents.
• Identify potential emergencies and accidents.
• Reduce potential for accidents.
• Update existing emergency plans.
• Conduct training for responsible personnel.
• Emergency drills.
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Monitoring and Measurement
• Documented procedure to gauge environmentalperformance.
• Analyze root causes of problems.
• Identify areas where corrective action is needed.
• Improve performance.
• Equipment calibration.
• Documented procedure for evaluating environmental compliance.
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Nonconformance and Corrective and Preventive Action
• Develop procedures for investigating, correcting, and preventing problems.
• Assign responsibility and authority for handling, investigating, and mitigating nonconformance.
• Revise procedures or other EMS documentation based on corrective action.
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Records
• Procedures for identification, maintenance, and disposition of records.
• Determine their retention time.
• Set up a good storage and retrieval system.
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EMS Audits
• Procedure for audits.
• Determine audit frequency.
• Select and train EMS auditors.
• Maintain audit records.
• Provide findings to management.
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Management Review
• Establish a process for periodic review of the EMS.
• Document the results.
• Follow up on action items.
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EMS Growth
Global
• 1996 1,491
• 1997 5,017
• 1998 5,446
• 1999 9,700
• 2000 23,721
United States
• 1996 4
• 1997 83
• 1998 188
• 1999 450
• 2000 1,340
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Gap Analysis and Implementation Planning
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Gap Analysis
• Programs already in place.
• Roadmap for future.
• Business challenges.
• Environmental challenges.
• Areas for evaluation.
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Implementation Planning
• Starting point based on gap analysis.
• Set schedule:
– Use modules;
– Set intermediary dates within modules.
• Determine staffing requirements.
• Estimate time/resource needs.
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Implementation Planning
• Use resources provided through this pilot project, including:
– Site visits
– Phone calls
– E-mails
– Faxes
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Introducing EMS to The Facility: The Business Case
Denise Rayborn
Waste Reduction Assistance Program
Iowa DNR
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The Challenge
• Market pressures
– World market
– Increasing cost
– Growing stakeholder expectation
• Fire-fighting mode
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Environmental Management Efforts: Taking Charge!
• EMS can help.
• EMS not required, but…
• Plan-Do-Check-Act.
• One size fits all?
• Don’t do everything at once!
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Taking Charge! continued...
• EMS steps that will help you:1 Evaluate and define success2 Prioritize environmental issues3 Identify objective and tracking mechanisms4 Promote ownership of environmental issues5 Improve controls over environmental impacts6 Develop internal processes7 Report progress
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What It Takes
• Sustained effort.
• Support:
– Secure, maintain, communicate
– Engage management
• Measure results.
• Communicate.
• Keep spark alive!
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Taking Charge: Results
• An EMS will help you achieve:1 More control over an important business factor
2 Better planning - fewer surprises
3 Improved efficiency - lowers costs
4 A more valuable work force
5 Betters relations with regulators and community
6 Potential regulatory benefits
7 Stronger customer relationships - competitive position
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Results continued…Corporate Culture Change
Today• Environmental management is
an unpredictable cost center.
• Fear of enforcement is primary motivator.
• Employees are pessimistic and apathetic.
Tomorrow• Environmental management
is a profit center.
• Environmental decisions align with corporate values.
• Employees are enthusiastic and innovative.
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Environmental Policy
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Environmental Policy
• Statement of corporate values
– Mission statement
– Quality policy statement
– Unwritten
• Corporate
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Environmental Policy
• Appropriate to the nature, scale and environmental impacts of activities, products, or services.
• Commitment to continual improvement and P2.• Commitment to comply with regulations.• Provides framework for setting and reviewing
objectives and targets.• Documented, implemented, maintained, and
communicated to all employees.• Available to the public.
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Homework