Post on 17-Sep-2018
Environmental Management System for Operation and Closure
Certification under ISO 14001
presented by
Dave Mohr of
SEAs Specialists in Environmental
management and Audits
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Summary
• Origin of ISO 14001
• Development process
• Current status
• Brief description of ISO 14001
• Comparison with EMPR requirements
• Value of ISO 14001 to the mining Industry
Recognition of ISO 14001
European Standards Organisation (CEN) will adopt
• Conflicting EU standards to be withdrawn (Including BS 7750)
• EMAS -ISO bridging document being prepared
GATT: International standards must be adopted
• SABS 0251 being withdrawn
Recognition of ISO 14001
ISO 14000 expected to gain wider
recognition than ISO 9000 .
• 2 000 South African companies }
.70 000 companies world wide
Certlfled to
ISO 9000 •
Origin of ISO 14000
June '92 - Earth summit in Rio
1990 - BCSO founded recommends that ISO establish SAGE
Oct. '92 - SAGE recommends that ISO form a TC on environmental management
May'93 - TC207 established, given 5 years to develop international standards
June '95 - ISO 14001 reaches OIS stage
Sept. '96 - ISO 14001 to be published as an international standard
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ISO/le 207 Environmental Management Systems
SCl Environmental Management
Systems
SC3 Environmental
Labelling
SC2 Environmental
Auditing
SC4 Environmental Performance Evaluation
SC5 Life
Cycle Analysis
SCS Terms
and
WGl Environmental
Definitions
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Mandate given to sub-committee 1
• Develop a standard (ISO 14001) and a guideline (ISO 14004) for EMS
• Systems requirements only (,,0 performance requirements)
• Applicable to all organisations
• No non-tariff trade barriers
Sub-committee 1 (SC1)
• Membership: national standards bodies
• ± 30 countries actively Involved
• 7 drafts, 2% years
• Consensus-driven process
• Recent vote: ISO 14001 -100% ISO 14004- 98%
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Process followed in SA
• Mirror sub-committee
• 48 members
• Drafts circulated for comment
Key differences ISO 9001
• Supplier-customer relationship
• Product-related
• Performance requirements derived from contract with customer
ISO 14001
• Multiple stakeholders
• All activities, products, services
• Performance requirements derived from various sources
• Identification of aspects & impacts
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Environmental policy
By top management:
• appropriate to nature, scale and impacts
• provide a framework for objectives & targets
• communicated to all employees
• publicly available
• 3 commitments'
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Environmental policy (cont.)
• 3 commitments:
• continual improvement
• prevention of pollution
• comply with legal & other requirements •
Determining "significance"
Management prerogative, so:
• define categories of significance e.g.: very high; high; medium; low.
• establish criteria for rating significance
• consistently evaluate all aspects and impacts
• Note: Do not consider risk only
Training, awareness and competence • . .. all personnel whose work can cause a
significant impact ... shall be trained & competent
• make employees aware of:
• importance of conforming with policy & procedures
• significant impacts of their activities
• their responsibilities
• consequences of departing from procedures
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Communication
• Procedures for:
• internal communication • . .. responding to external
communication
• Consider processes for external communication, and record the decision
EMS audit
Procedures for periodic EMS audits to:
• determine whether or not the EMS:
• conforms to planned arrangements • has been properly implemented &
maintained
• provide information to management
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Management review
Top management shall:
• periodically review the EMS
• to ensure its continuing:
• suitability • adequacy • effectiveness
Common Symptoms
• Fragmentation of Initiatives
• No holistic overview of activities
• Under-resourced
• Insufficient integration • • Supplier's impacts overlooked
Comparison of EMPR with ISO 14001
EMPR
• legal requirement
• Goal : closure certificate
• Describes a programme (what, when, who)
• Identifies impacts on specified components
EMPR identifies impacts on
• Geology
• Climate
• Topography
• Soil
• etc.
ISO 14001
• Voluntary
• Goal : environmental protection
• Describes a system (includes how)
• Identifies all significant impacts
Not mentioned
• Waste
• Resource consumption
• Suppliers
• Use and disposal of products •
Comparison of EMPR with ISO 14001 (cont.)
EMPR
• Commit to achieving a set goal
• No specific requirement for training, communications, documentation
• No audit requirements
• Once-off process (may require updating)
ISO 14001
• Commit to continual improvement and prevention of pollution
• Specific requirement
• Periodic audit
• Iterative process, regular review and update by management
Value of ISO 14001 to mining industry
• Provides a highly credible demonstration of performance to interested parties.
• EMPR provides a good basis for implementing 150 '14001.
• Could be the route to follow in gaining acceptance of self-regulation.
but. . .
• Requires a change of mind-sel
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