Registration
to BS EN ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
Achievement
:- To be the first deep sea container terminal to achieve
registration to the above standard.
The standard BSEN ISO 14001 is an international standard
that enables organisations of any size to control the
impacts of their various activities on the environment.
It provides companies with a structural approach to
setting environmental objectives and targets and allows
businesses to demonstrate their achievements that are
required by the standard and audited by outside agencies.
Inherent in the system is the requirement to show continual
improvement that must be demonstrated at regular assessments.
Without
a Management System which is integrated within overall
management activities, the localised environmental review
and internal audits cannot assure management that its
performance is or will continue to meet legal and policy
requirements. During the initial phases of introduction
and compliance to the standard companies must ensure
that they have in place:- An Environmental Policy, An
Understanding of the Environmental Aspects and Impacts
of their operation, Register of all relevant Legislation,
An organised Management System with clear lines of responsibility.
A method of analysing environmental incidents and system
for corrective action and a means for Management to
review periodically the adequacy, suitability and effectiveness
of the system.
The
benefits from this system allows for the identification
of operational cost saving areas and by setting Objectives
and targets cost saving areas become more simply defined
and correction becomes set by targets. It is also a
marketing aid, as more and more companies are looking
to do business with Environmentally Aware companies.
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Waste
Recycling
One area covered by the Environmental Management Programme
is the review and audit of the type and quantity of waste.
The objective set was to reduce by volume, wherever possible
the quantity of Company waste sent to land fill and increase
the amount of waste which is recycled as well as the requirement
to comply with the Waste Management (Duty of Care) Regulations.
As
a consequence of this requirement various waste contractors
were contacted with regards to recycling issues. Rather
than have numerous skips on site that could be used
for various recycling products with the difficult of
ensuring that personnel put the correct items in each
skip. A Contractor was found that would take all site
waste to his recycling centre and sort waste on his
premises, prior to on forwarding the remnants to land
fill. As a result the Terminal reduced the number of
skips required and achieved as a minimum a recycling
rate of 40% of all its waste. As a consequence of this,
regular auditing of the waste produced by the company
was introduced.
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