Measuring your company's environmental impact : templates & tools for a complete ISO 14001 initial review

Read this fi rst 5 Then do this 8 The environmental review starts here 11 1 About this environmental review 13 Scope and purpose 13 Methods 13 2 Description of operations 15 The company 15 Manufacturing processes 17 3 Legal and other requirements 19 4 Accidents 23 Accidents and near accidents 23 Risk of accidents 25 5 Raw materials and components 27 6 Chemicals and chemical products 29 Use of chemicals 29 Handling 31 Environmentally hazardous chemicals 31 7 Energy consumption 35 8 Waste and recycling 39 Hazardous waste 39 Sorted waste 39 Other waste 41 9 Impact on the surrounding area 43 Water and waste 43 Land discharges 45 Air emissions 47 Noise 47 10 Transportation 49 Goods transportation 49 Trips to and from work 53 Business trips 57 11 The products 59 Outfl ow of products and packaging 59 The environmental impact of the products during use and end-of-life disposal 61 12 Summary of emissions and consumption of resources 63 Material and energy fl ow analysis 63 Quantifi cation with Environmental Load Units 67 13 Evaluation of environmental aspects 71 Environmental FMEA 71 Improvement proposals 75 14 References 77 Basis for calculations 77 Related documents 77 List of acronyms and abbreviations 79 4 Measuring your Company’s Environmental Impact Tables 0.1 Chart for tracking progress 9 2.1 Description of Company X 15 2.2 Manufacturing processes at Company X 17 3.1 Legal and other requirements – the most important 21 4.1 Accidents at Company X 23 4.2 Risk of accidents at Company X 25 5.1 Annual consumption of raw materials and components 27 6.1 Consumption of various types of chemicals 29 6.2 Chemicals handling 31 6.3 Hazardous chemicals 33 7.1 Annual energy consumption 35 7.2 Emissions and resource consumption for the production of the company’s energy 35 7.3 Comparisons of energy indicators 37 7.4 Energy consuming processes 37 8.1 Hazardous waste 39 8.2 Sorted waste 39 8.3 Other waste 41 9.1 Water consumption 43 9.2 Comparisons of water indicators 43 9.3 Land discharges 45 9.4 Air emissions from the plant 47 9.5 The largest noise sources 47 10.1 Annual resource consumption from goods transportation 49 10.2 Annual emissions from goods transportation 51 10.3 Comparisons of indicators for goods transports 51 10.4 Annual trips to and from work 53 10.5 Annual emissions and resource consumption for trips to and from work 55 10.6 Comparisons of indicators for travel to and from work 55 10.7 Annual emissions and resource consumption from business trips 57 10.8 Comparisons of indicators for business indicators 57 11.1 Products and packaging 59 11.2 The environmental impact of the products 61 12.1 Infl ows 63 12.2 Outfl ows 65 12.3 Indirect air emissions 65 12.4 Comparisons of ELU indicators 69 Figures 1.1 Process 17 6.1 Danger symbols 33 12.1 Example of an EPS analysis of the environmental impact 67