Overview of CDCs Environmental Management Systems EMS

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Overview of CDCs Environmental Management
Systems (EMS)

• Dave Ausdemore, PE, CIH
• CDR, USPHS
• Environmental Program Manger
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Agenda

• CDCs EMS
• Overview of EMS elements
• CDC EMS components
• Continuing improvements
• SAME EMS Subcommittee Activities

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Definition of an EMS

• An EMS is an organizational approach to
  environmental management.
• The goal of incorporating environmental
  considerations into day-to-day operations.
• An EMS provides a structured framework
  specifically designed to achieve continual
  environmental improvement.

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A Viable EMS

• To succeed an EMS should be
• Cost effective,
• Economically viable,
• In harmony with trade regulations,
• Based on systems and performance,
• Practical, usable and useful, and
• Focused on continual improvement

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General Principles

• An EMS serves the organization and its mission,
  not the reverse
• EMS is a process, not an event
• An EMS is the people their actions, not the
  words aspirations
• Improvement rests on changing attitudes
  behaviors
• Want to, not have to
• Start at the top, implement throughout

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Major Components of an EMS
Policy
Planning
Implementation and Operation
Checking and Corrective Action
Management Review
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Plan Do Check Act
Continual Improvement
Management Review
Environmental Policy
Planning
Checking Corrective Action
Implementation Control
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Planning
Identify
Determine
Environmental
Priority
Develop
Aspects and Impacts
Identify
Environmental
Establish
Environmental
Activities,
Impacts
Objectives
Management
Products
and
Program
and
Targets
Services
Determine Legal and Other
Requirements
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Objectives and Targets

• 1. Reduce waste and pollution.
• a. Divert 60 of solid waste from landfills
  by 2010.
• b. Reduce hazardous waste by 25 by 2010
  compared to 2005 baseline
• c. Eliminate mercury from noncritical
  processes by 2009.
• 2. Reduce consumption of natural resources.
• a. Achieve 100 participation for recycled
  content on all paper-based office
• supplies by the end of  FY 2007.
• b. Meet all green component standards of
  the Federal Electronics Challenge by
• FY 2009.
• c. Reduce petroleum usage by 20 in vehicle
  fleet by FY 2008.
• Minimize infrastructure construction and
  development impacts.
• a. Design 100 of capital and renovation
  projects in accordance with sustainable standards
  
• b. Reduce energy consumption by 35 per
  gross ft2 of non-laboratory facilities and 25
  for laboratories
• c. Increase renewable energy by 2.5 for
  facility electricity use

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Activities with Most Significant Aspects

• Boilers Operation and Maintenance
• Underground Storage Tanks
• Incinerators Operations and Maintenance
• Hazardous Waste Satellite Accumulation Mgt
• Sanitary Sewer Disposal (non-hazardous liquids)
• Biological/Solid Waste Management Discard Pan
  Waste
• White Paper Use
• Sample Concentration
• Chemical Storage

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Implementation
Capabilities
Organization
Controls
Accountability
Communications
EMS Documentation
Training,
Awareness and
Document Control
Competence
Structure and
Responsibility
Operational Control
Communication
Emergency
Preparedness and
Response
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Environmental Protection Program Program
Organizational ChartProviding a Healthy
Environment for Healthy People

• CDC Environmental Programs
• Hazardous Waste
• Air Emissions
• Chemical Management
• Water Quality
• Solid Waste
• UST/AST
• Env Assessments and Remediation
• Facility Design and Construction Review
• Env Mgt Systems

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Communication is Key
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Checking and Corrective Action
Ongoing
Non-conformance,
Monitoring and
Corrective and
Measuring
Records
Preventive Action
Periodic Internal EMS Audits
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Environmental Program Metrics
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CDC Environmental Quality Council

• Consists of representatives throughout CDC
• Standard Agenda
• Review Compliance Status
• Review One Env Objective
• Main presentation of CDC Env Program
• Announcements/Crossfeed

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Management Review Process

• Take account of
• audit findings
• progress records on objectives
• changes to facilities
• changes in activities, products or services
• changes in technology
• concerns of interested parties
• other relevant information

• To Assess the
• suitability,
• adequacy, and
• effectiveness of the EMS

• In order to determine the need for change and
  improvement to
• the environmental policy
• the objectives and targets
• other elements of the EMS

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Continual Improvement

• Finalizing approx 30 CEPs (SOPs)
• Identifying training requirements
• Evaluating Aspects/Impacts of Activities
• Continual Improvement with Env Objectives/Targets

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EMS Conclusions

• Continual Improvement is Key
• Once components are in place, focus in on Env
  Objectives and Targets

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SAME EMS Subcommitee Activities
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Work Plan Objectives Supported by EMS Subcom

• Goal 3 Embed env sessions in programs and
  conferences.
• Goal 4 Interact and share info.
• Goal 5 Foster a sustainability ethic.

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EMS Subcommittee Goals

• EMS Presenters 2x year for SAME Env Affairs
  Meetings
• Provide information sharing for EMS resources
• EMS presenters during regional and national
  Conference

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EMS Hot Topic

• EPA EMS Scorecards and OMB Env Scorecards

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Questions?