Tobyhanna Army Depot ISO 14001 Implementation

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Tobyhanna Army DepotISO 14001Implementation

• 16 June 2004

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C4ISR Logistics Support Center for Warfighter
Readiness and Transformation

• From handheld radios to satellite communications
• Full service repair
• Overhaul
• Fabrication
• Utilizes advanced technologies to ensure the
  readiness of our Armed Forces
• Support all DoD, other Federal Facilities, and
  military sales

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History

• Depot is 51 years old
• Army has maintained a nearly continuous presence
  in Tobyhanna since 1912
• Field artillery training camp
• Civilian Conservation Corps camp
• Artillery training of West Point Cadets
• WW II prisoner-of-war camp
• Storage site for gliders used in D-Day
• In 50 years, gradual change from supply to
  maintenance depot

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Statistics

• Largest employer in region
• 3300 employees
• 1296 acres
• 153 buildings
• gt 4,500,000 square feet
• 56 veterans
• Average age 49
• Average years of service 20
• Average Salary of 40,200
• 877 million impact on community
• Award winning

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Environmental Program

• Every environmental media
• Title V Facility
• RCRA Part B Permit Storage
• NPDES Permit STP, Storm water, and IWTP
• DW Permit
• Registered UST

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ISO 14001

• Participated in DoD Working Group
• Working at implementing for several years
• Depot developed other depot-wide management
  programs that competed for employees time
• Team Power
• VPP
• Lean Initiatives
• ISO 90002000
• Became ISO 90002000 certified in Feb 03
• Became ISO 14001 certified in Nov 03
• Using same third party registrar for both
  certifications

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ISO 14001 (cont.)

• Have management buy-in
• Gap analysis 80 with DoD established programs
• Commanders Policy meet standards requirements
• Environmental Management System (EMS) Manual
  depot regulation
• Environmental Coordinator is EMS Manager
• Each directorate and all command staff offices
  has an officially appointed representative meet
  monthly
• All supervisors have ISO 14001 requirements in
  their rating standards
• Created communication log
• Awareness campaign

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ISO 14001 (cont.)

• Each organization identified their products,
  services or activities that affected the
  environment and determined if significant or not
• EMD ranked each of the significant impacts
• - 79 identified
• - Highest six are being mitigated
• Created Target and Objectives to mitigate 6
  significant environmental impacts
• Six separate teams created to manage
• Meet periodically

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ISO 14001 (cont.)

• Trained internal auditors from EMD, Quality, and
  ISO 14001 directorate representatives
• Have to audit each organization annually
• Created Corrective/Preventive/NOD program
• Maintain Log (CARTS)
• Follow-up and report out to CO and Directors
  (Scorecard)
• Management review required accomplish during
  EQCC (Risk Management Committee)
• Key is strive for continuous improvement,
  document control, periodic review of program,
  record maintenance, and management review

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Groups to Management EMS

• EMD meets weekly
• EQCC meets quarterly
• ISO 14001 representatives meet quarterly
• T O Teams meet periodically, report quarterly

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Major Efforts

• Gap analysis
• EMS manual
• Aspects and impacts
• Internal audit program
• Communication log
• Document control
• Awareness
• Certification

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Awareness

• Cascade briefings
• Articles
• Bulletins
• Pamphlets/cards
• Banners
• Organizational activity reports
• Audits

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Contractor Support

• Gap analysis
• General awareness training
• Readiness assessment audit
• Certification

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Environmental Policy
Planning
Management Review
Continual Improvement
Implementation
Checking / Corrective Action