Pollution Prevention in the Environmental Management System at LANL Dr. Denny Hjeresen

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Pollution Prevention in theEnvironmental
Management System at LANLDr. Denny Hjeresen

• EFCOG/EMS Workshop
• March 8-9, 2005

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Overview

• EMS as Major Marketing Opportunity for P2
• EMS has requirements, P2 doesnt
• Prevention vs. Pollution Prevention - One ISM
  message
• LANL Strategy Transparent merger of P2 and EMS
  into business practices
• P2 - EMS integration methods
• Marketing - Packaging the Basic Message
• Cost/Benefit Analysis Cost Estimating
• Case Studies
• Objectives and Targets - Performance Measures
• Division Action Plans - P2 Opportunity
  Assessments
• Providing the resources - GSAF
• Graphics and Training

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Prevention - An Upstream Approach
Currently starting too late in processes

• Environmental Approach
• Conduct the work
• Weigh the waste
• Transfer to waste mgmt.
• Recycle
• Minimize the volume
• Package
• Ship
• Store

• Safety Equivalent
• Conduct the work
• Count injuries, deaths
• Send to hospital
• Triage
• Bandage
• Send to recovery

Stop accepting the waste premise!
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Prevention Requires Technical Staff
Technical Staff
C O S T
Waste Management Staff
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P2/EMS Strategy Dont ASK Anymore

• Strategy Extend the principle of affirmative
  procurement automation to new venues
• LANL and SNL Sustainable Design example
• Change the engineering standards
• LEED requirements passed to AE firms
• P2 built in as key step in ISM work control
  process
• Identify Hazard ? Prevention Opportunity ?
  Controls
• P2 requirements in Automated Job Hazard Analysis
  Tool
• Project Review (PR-ID) Criteria requires P2
  project review
• Built P2 objective into contractual requirements
• LANL/UC Appendix F requirement

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P2 in Objectives and Targets

• Policy statement requires P2 commitment
• Division-level charter includes commitment to
  prevention
• Implementing at Division level (35)
• Objectives and Targets
• Incorporated into Institutional Objectives
• Required EMS or ISO Policies
• LANL needed Aspects, Communications, and Legal
• All built in prevention requirements
• Revising additional Lab requirements
• New DOE/NNSA P2 targets are EMS focused

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Making the Business Case

• At LANL all new procedures must justify costs to
  financial and science office directors
• Switched to cost/benefit argument
• Poor environmental performance costs money
• Cost/Benefit studies to document waste,
  regulatory, technical staff resources required
• LANL Waste Cost Study - what do we pay?
• Annual Waste Volume Forecast - whats coming
• Highlighted payback
• P2 Awards Program (2 years gt7 M savings)
• GSAF Program - 241 ROI on projects over time
• Identify the costs - hearts and minds will follow
• Put the cost arguments in terms relevant to
  specific Divisions
• Staff-time
• Overhead costs
• Mission interruption

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Why EMS at LANL?
RockyFlatsClosing
High fluxbeam atBrookhaven
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Why EMS at LANL?
Delayed startup of our hydrodynamic test
facility, DHART
Bio Safety Level III Facility not operating
At DX-2, leaks kept scientists from using lab
sinks for over two years
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Why EMS at LANL?
58,000/m3
TRU 1.6 m3 LANL FY04 78 m3
or
49 new post-docs
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Benefits
INEEL Environmental Enforcement
Penalties (Original Assessed Penalty)
LANL Fines 1.5 M last two years Real costs
higher
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Packaging the Message

• Built prevention into every element of EMS
  implementation
• Graphics - posters, badges, viewgraphs,
• The EMS is business! Prevention is a key delivery
  mechanism
• Training
• All-employee EMS awareness training
• Features prevention examples
• Repeated Training Message
• Division leader kickoff
• Division Group Leader kickoff
• All-employee required training video
• Manager training module
• How to use P2 to achieve results

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EMS Policy

• www.ems.lanl.gov

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Merging EMS with P2 Programs

• Basic EMS pitch
• Decrease negative aspects - increase positive
• P2 efforts are primary tool to highlight positive
• Environmental Aspects - Significance Evaluation
• P2 listed as a positive significant aspect
• Environmental Action Plans
• Using P2 Opportunity Assessments as evaluation
  tool
• Process maps help identify mission improvements
• DNA sequencing case study
• Generator-set Aside Funds made available to
  execute
• Only P2 based projects qualify
• Leveraged funds - help them do the right thing
• Awards Program
• Consciously recognize the projects that come out
  of the EMS continuous improvement process

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P2 in EMS Life Cycle
Aspects
Review
Plans (PPOA)
Awards
Resources (GSAF)
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Summary

• Prevention is the smart business choice
• Document how and specifically for whom
• Prevention is most effective upstream
• Give control and recognition to technical staff
• Prevention as a guerilla activity - quit asking!
• Built into life-cycle of LANL EMS