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Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention
Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention
Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention
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Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention

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Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored by an environmental engineer and an economist/planner, Green Profits shows how to implement an EMS, especially ISO 14001, so that it leads to profitable pollution prevention innovations, and how to identify and implement pollution prevention measures in a sound strategic business framework. Green Profits provides the knowledge and tools for enterprise managers to achieve the benefits of both EMS and P2, and to do so in ways that fit in with existing management systems in their enterprises.Environmental management systems are planned and organized ways for an enterprise to manage its interactions with the environment, in particular those interactions that consume resources, degrade the environment, and create human health risk. Part I of Green Profits provides a thorough and practical understanding of the elements of EMSs in general and ISO 14001 in particular, tools and techniques for implementing an EMS and achieving ISO 14001 certification, and help with getting the implementation process started.Pollution prevention involves replacing process technologies that generate pollution with those that do not or that do so much less. It focuses on improving production processes to minimize waste rather than treating effluents or emissions, which add to costs. Part II of Green Profits provides tools such as step-by-step guides to conducting a P2 audit and energy and material balances for identifying P2 opportunities in an enterprise; examples of P2 practices in specific industry sectors; and a set of tools for assessing potential P2 investments from a bottom-line point of view.With this New Handbook -- · Bring your facility into compliance · Improve your corporate image · Reduce your company's environmental liabilities · Identify and save millions of dollars from pollution prevention projects This New Handbook Includes -- · A step-by-step approach to implementing ISO 14001 · A step-by-step approach to implementing Pollution Prevention · Contains nearly 100 useful charts and tables used by the experts in establishing environmental action plans, gap analyses, establishing an Environmental Management System · Contains dozens of useful charts and calculation methods with examples for evaluating the costs and savings to your company in implementing Pollution Prevention · Dozens of industry-specific case studies that you can learn and profit from · Shows you in stepwise fashion how project financing principles and environmental cost accounting methods, when coupled with EMS can save your company moneyThis New Handbook is unique because unlike other volumes that separately cover Environmental Management Systems and Pollution Prevention, you have it all in one single volume, written by Experts that are Practitioners.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 17, 2001
ISBN9780080507606
Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention
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Nicholas P Cheremisinoff

Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Ph.D. (Ch.E.) is Director of Clean Technologies and Pollution Prevention Projects at PERI (Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC, Rockville, MD). He has led hundreds of pollution prevention audits and demonstrations; training programs on modern process design practices and plant safety; environmental management and product quality programs; and site assessments and remediation plans for both public and private sector clients throughout the world. He frequently serves as expert witness on personal injury and third-party property damage litigations arising from environmental catastrophes. Dr. Cheremisinoff has contributed extensively to the literature of environmental and chemical engineering as author, co-author, or editor of 150 technical reference books, including Butterworth-Heinemann’s Handbook of Chemical Processing Equipment, and Green Profits. He holds advanced degrees in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology."

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    Green Profits - Nicholas P Cheremisinoff

    Organization

    Road Map to Part I: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

    Part I of this book is designed to provide what the reader needs to put an EMS in place. It includes information for convincing top management and others that establishing an EMS is in the best interests of the enterprise, and shows how an EMS fits in with and reinforces existing management systems. It provides the means for assessing what kind of EMS would be best for a particular enterprise, and shows how to take the first steps toward establishing one. It offers tools and techniques for fully implementing an EMS, whether it’s a minimal EMS or one that will pass an ISO 14001 certification audit. And, most important, it aims to provide a real understanding of what an EMS is, how it works, how it makes or saves money for an enterprise, and how it can be adapted to the unique and changing needs of a particular enterprise.

    Our purpose in the four chapters of Part I is to serve anyone with an interest in the subject of environmental management systems. We make the point (perhaps too often) that an EMS is not about ISO 14001 certification; rather, it’s about running an enterprise better, more efficiently, more competitively, and more sustainably, and about making and saving money. Running an enterprise is a creative endeavor; accordingly, Part I is built on the assumption that readers want to understand what an EMS is all about and then apply themselves creatively to building one that operates efficiently and delivers huge benefits for their enterprises. Consequently, Part I does not dwell so much on the details of what different EMS procedures enterprises should include as it does on the knowledge and tools managers need to figure this out for themselves in the context of their enterprise’s operations.

    In some cases, top management may be interested for the time being only in experimenting lightly with a simple and limited EMS, perhaps to see if it offers a better way to ensure the enterprise’s compliance with environmental regulations or to minimize the risk of environmental liabilities. At the other extreme, top management may be interested in achieving ISO 14001 certification in a few months. The material in Part I has been developed to serve those extremes, as well as everything between, while keeping in mind students and others who just want to be well-informed on the subjects of EMS and ISO 14001.

    Chapter 1 starts with a short overview of the basic principles and concepts of EMSs, what ISO 14001 is all about, and the core elements of ISO 14001. As with all chapters in this book, the last section of Chapter 1 contains a brief review of the main points. At the end of the chapter are some questions for individual consideration or classroom discussion (other chapters in Part I have questions and exercises, or just exercises at the end). The reader who picks up this book only because he or she is wondering exactly what an EMS is or perhaps what ISO 14001 is, and no more, will have their curiosity completely satisfied by Chapter 1. If the chapter stimulates a deeper interest, or if for other reasons the reader wants to go beyond basic principles and concepts, he or she should move on to Chapter 2.

    Chapter 2 fully explains:

    • Each element of an EMS and what role it plays in the overall management system

    • Each element’s minimum requirements

    • How each element relates to other EMS elements

    • How each element can be adapted to the needs of different enterprises

    • Exactly what ISO 14001 requires for each element

    • What an enterprise needs to have in place to pass an ISO 14001 certification audit

    Chapter 2 follows the outline of ISO 14001, which is organized as a series of clauses and subclauses that each represent a distinct element of the EMS. Except for the introductory and review sections, the sections of Chapter 2 correspond to the elements of ISO 14001. Though the material stands on its own, enterprises concerned with ISO 14001 certification will benefit most by reading Chapter 2 with a copy of the ISO 14001 standard at hand. The chapter is called EMS: Applied Models because it contains information that enables the reader to create an EMS model uniquely appropriate for the circumstances of his or her enterprise.

    After reading a section of Chapter 2, some readers will want immediately to see the tools and techniques for implementing that EMS element. Those readers can jump to the counterpart section of Chapter 3 before going on to the next section of Chapter 2. For example, after reading the section of Chapter 2 on environmental policy, learning what an environmental policy is, and what ISO 14001 requires for the environmental policy of an enterprise, a reader may want to explore the processes and tools for establishing an environmental policy before moving on to an explanation of the next EMS element. The counterpart section of Chapter 3 will provide that information, and will be easy to find because the counterpart sections in the two chapters have exactly the same names. In this case, both are called Environmental Policy (Clause 4.2).

    Chapter 3 presents tools and techniques for establishing and maintaining an EMS, and is organized the same as Chapter 2 — by ISO 14001 clauses and subclauses. If Chapter 2 is the overall what and why of each element of an EMS, Chapter 3 is the how and what does it contain? chapter. Chapter 3 offers lists, worksheets, outlines, tips, and so on — practical help for creating an EMS and maintaining it, whether it’s an ISO 14001 or some other type of EMS. Readers who already have a full understanding of the details of an EMS, have already taken the first basic steps toward setting up an EMS in their enterprises, and want only to access concrete tools for establishing, maintaining, or upgrading their EMSs, can limit their reading to Chapter 3. However, we recommend reading Chapter 2 as well, because the spirit of the presentation in Chapter 3 flows from the presentation in Chapter 2, and there is some material in Chapter 2 that is equally relevant to Chapter 3 but is not repeated there. Material in counterpart sections of Chapter 2 is referenced frequently in Chapter 3, and knowledge of the former will help in the understanding of the

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