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EHS Management System
The Benefits of an EHS management system is :
Toprotect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses and promoting a safe and
healthy work environment.
Identify and mitigate physical, chemical and biological hazards inthe workplace.
ToImprove Environmental Performance of Organization
EHS management refers to the implementation of procedures focused on ensuring and improving the
safety of workers and their surroundings. These processes helps in achieving and maintaining the overall
environmental goals of the organization.
EHS not only helps minimize the impact on the environment and improve worker safety but also can
improve employee retention, productivity, and enhance the brand image of the company which helps
in corporate growth.
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Environment: This refers to the world around you and concerns preventing things like chemical
spills and air pollution.
Health: This usually refers to things that can make people ill, like pathogens, radiation, and
exposure to noise or bad smells.
Safety: The safety aspect of EHS is focused on preventing workplace accidents and injuries
Focused area of EHS Management System
Environment
Manage your organizations
approach to sourcing clean
energy, reducing energy costs
and reducing negative
environmental impacts such as
spills and leaks
Health
Manage the health of your
workers to prevent illness, injury
and chronic disability while
maintaining productive
operations.
Safety
Manage your work
environment and processes to
identify safety hazards and
prevent workplace incidents,
accidents and injuries.
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ISO 14001 is an International Standard that specifies requirements for
Environmental management system (EMS), with guidance for its use, to
enable an organization to proactively improve its Environment
performance, fulfill compliance obligations and address risks and
opportunities
ISO 14001 is applicable to all organizations, regardless of size, industry
or nature of business.
Environmental Management system
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Aim of an EMS management system
The aim and intended outcomes of the EHS management system are:
To enhancement of environmental performance.
To fulfillment of compliance obligations.
achievement of environmental objectives.
To prevent work related injury and ill health to workers.
To provide safe and healthy workplaces.
Parallelly , it is critically important for the organization to address environmental
impacts due to aspects and eliminate hazards and minimize EHS risks by taking
effective preventive and protective measures.
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CARWA:-
• Creation of Environmental, Health and Safety
Culture
• Ability to meet legal and regulatory requirement
• Reinforced Leadership and commitment
• Work place Incident reduction
• Absenteeism and staff turnover reduction
Goal of Environment, Health and safety
Management System
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Understand PDCA Cycle in EHS
The PDCA concept is an iterative process used by organizations to achieve
continual improvement.
Plan
• Understand the context
of the organization
including EHS risk and
opportunities. Establish
EHS objectives,
processes and
resources required to
deliver results in
accordance with the
organizations EHS
Policy.
Do
• Implement the
processes as
planned to
including
worker
participation,
hazard
identification
and
emergency
preparedness.
Check
• Monitor,
measure
and
evaluate
EHS
activities
and
processes
Act
• Take actions
to
continually
improve to
including
findings of
incidents,
addressing
non-
conformance
and audit
findings
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PDCA Approach in 10 Clauses
Auditable Clauses 4-10, Ensured PDCA Approach in the clauses
arrangement itself
Clause No. 4 - Context of the Organization
as Input Clause No. 5 Leadership
Clause
6-
Plannin
g
Pla
n
• Clause
7-
Suppor
t
• Clause
8-
Operatio
n
D
O
Clause 9-
Performan
ce
Evaluation
Chec
k
Clause 10-
Improveme
nt
AC
T
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High Level Structure (HLS) - 10 Clause
1.) SCOPE
2.) NORMATIVE REFERENCE
3.) TERMS & DEFINITION
4.) CONTEXT OF THE ORGANISATION
5.) LEADERSHIP
6.) PLANNING
7.) SUPPORT
8.) OPERATION
9.) PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
10.) IMPROVEMENT
Easyto
Remember-
SNTCLPSOPI!
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4.1 – Understanding the
organization and its context
4.2 – Understanding the needs and
expectations of workers and other
interested parties
4.3 – Determining the scope of the
EHS management system
4.4 – EHS management system
Clause: 4 - Context of the Organization
The rationale of this clause is that the system focuses on the processes and requirements needed
to achieve the EHS policy & objectives. This can be achieved by understanding the organization
and the ‘context’ in which it operates. Clause 4 also sets out the requirements for the ‘Scope’
and the system to be defined.
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Importance to the success of the EHS management system is leadership and commitment from
‘Top Management’. The expectation on leaders within an organization is to become champions of
the system and provide the necessary resources to protect workers from harm
Clause: 5 - Leadership
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Clause: 6 - Planning
• 6.1.1 General
• 6.1.2 Environmental Aspect
• 6.1.3 compliance obligation
• 6.1.4 Planning action
Clause: 6.1
Actionstoaddressrisk
andopportunities
• 6.2.1 EHS objectives
• 6.2.2 Planning to achieve
EHS objectives
Clause:6.2
EHSobjectivesandplanning
toachieve them
Planning is one of the key components of any management system. EMS standards are
based on the ‘Plan-Do-Check-Act’ cycle, where planning is used to set the actions in motion
for how the system will work.
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• Risk: Effect of uncertainty
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Clause: 7 - Support
This section looks at the requirements which underpin the EHS management system to
ensure it runs effectively.
7.1 Resources
7.2Competence
7.3Awareness
7.4Communication
7.5 Documentedinformation
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Clause: 8- Operation
Once processes within the organization have been identified and planned, the method in
which the business will operate, the company needs to plan and control each process within
the EHS management system.
8.1 Operational
planning and
control
8.2 Emergency
preparedness
and response
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Clause: 9- Performance Evaluation
Performance evaluation is a constructive process that aims to improve an organization’s operation
and is crucial to the ‘Plan, Do, Check and Act’ model prescribed by Standards. These processes
should help achieve and support organizational strategy and goals
9.1 Monitoring,
measurement,
analysis and
performance
evaluation
9.2 Internal
audit
9.3 Management
review
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Clause: 10- improvement
10.1
General
This clause provides guidance on making improvements to the EHS..
This clause encompasses the following:
•General Requirement
•nonconformity and corrective action;
•Continual improvement
10.2
nonconformit
y and
corrective
action
10.3
Continual
improvement
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Verbal Forms Understanding
‘ shall’ indicates a Requirement;
‘ should’ indicates a Recommendation;
‘ may’ indicates a permission
‘ can‘ indicates a possibility or a capability.
‘ NOTE’ is for Guidance in understanding.
‘ NOTEtoEntry’ Provide additional information that terminological
data and can contain provisions relating to the use of a term.
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Aspect and Impact
What does aspect mean?
According to the ISO 14001 standard, “an environmental aspect is an element of an
organization’s activities, products, or services that has or may have an impact on the
environment”
This could be any of the following:
•Emissions to air
•Discharges to water/land
•Use of fossil fuels
What does impact mean?
Environmental impacts are “any change to the environment, whether adverse or
beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization’s environmental aspects.”
For example:
•Emissions to air – Air Pollution
•Discharge to water/land – Water Pollution.
•Use of fossil fuels – Depletion of Natural Resources
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