EPA ORD 2 Training 080701

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DoD Region 4 Pollution Prevention Kick Off Meeting
Regional EMS Alliance State-Level EMS
Implementation Training
A partnership of
Presented by Cam Metcalf Executive
Director August 8, 2002
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The Evolution of Environmental Management (EM)

Strategic Environmental Management
Systems Approach

Pollution Prevention
Regulatory Compliance
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The Future of Pollution Prevention (P2)...
Environmental Management Systems
(EMSs) Environmental Management System
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Evolution of an Organizations Environmental
Management
Sustained
Sustainability
Eco-efficiency
Product stewardship Design for
Environment Life-Cycle assessment
Competitive Advantage
Environmental Management Accounting Environm
entally Preferable Purchasing
Environmental Management Systems
(EMSs) Energy, Water Resources Conservation
Market Driven
Pollution Prevention
Pollution control compliance
Compliant
Noncompliance waste pollution
Reactive
Unprepared
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EMS Design Implementation Lessons Learned

• Keep EMS simple. Use what you already have in
  place. Dont detail it to death.
• It doesnt have to be perfect out-of-the-gate.
  Remember the concept of continual improvement!
• EMS challenge areas
• Determining aspects/impacts significance
• Communicating EMS to all functions levels of
  the organization
• Communicating EMS to all suppliers contractors
• Communicating with additional external interested
  parties
• Environmentally-involved aware employees
• EMS provides change management capabilities

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EMS Design Implementation Lessons Learned

• Knowing your organizations culture is critical
• Implementing EMS is about people
• Environmental manager (EM) activities have
  greater visibility
• EM roles responsibilities change (operational
  to long-term focus)
• Its hard for EM to relinquish control, assume
  managerial responsibilities project management,
  function in business mindset, overcome histories
  (police ISO 9000) build new relationships
  throughout the plant

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DoD Region 4 Pollution Prevention Kick Off Meeting
Regional EMS Alliance State-Level EMS
Implementation Training
A partnership of
Presented by Tim Piero Training Director August
8, 2002
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University Partners
Project Lead Christine Steagall University of
South Carolina 803-777-7463

• Cam Metcalf
• Tim Piero
• 502-852-0965
• University of Louisville
• Holly Grell-Lawe 404-894-4299 and Deann Desai
  706-769-4887
• Georgia Tech Research Institute

• Phil Barnes 803-777-1373 University of
  South Carolina
• George Smelcer 615-532-8657 University of
  Tennessee

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Why Implement an EMS?

• Enhance mission/combat readiness
• Boost operational efficiency consistency
• Improve compliance assurance
• Promote environmental involvement
• Supports sustainability/stewardship
• Meet top management directives
• Executive Order 13148
• Army EMS Policy Memo (5 Apr 02)
• Deputy Secretary of Air Force
• Memo (July 02)

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EMS Perceptions

• EMS is an industry thing.
• Im going to be told how to do my EMS.
• Ill have to get ISO-14001 registered.
• Ill never have another compliance violation.
• Once I get the EMS in place, Im done.
• What do universities know about EMSs?

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What Makes an EMS Different From What We Already
Do?

• Continual environmental performance improvement
• Opportunities in non-regulated areas
• Environmental part of everyones
  responsibilities including top management

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EMS Training Task Objectives

• Develop military-sector user-group for EMS
  implementation training technical assistance
• Assist installations learn how to plan,
  implement, and audit ISO 14001-aligned EMSs
• Transfer proven installation, industrial and
  public sector lessons learned in EMS
  implementation

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Tiered-Training Approach

• Tier 1-open to all Region 4 installations
• Four training days in Atlanta
• Session 1 Orientation overview of implementing
  an EMS
• Session 2 Planning managing the EMS
• Session 3 Getting results through a
  performance-based EMS
• Session 4 Documentation, auditing continual
  improvement

Suggested start date Fall 2002 Completion EOY
2003
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Tiered-Training Approach

• Tier 2-open to at least 16 Region 4
  installations
• Hands-on EMS planning, implementation and
  auditing/focus on challenge areas
• Each university partners with small group of
  installations
• Facilitate EMS implementation in operational
  areas
• Within each state, each university
  participating installations will develop training
  format

Suggested start date Fall, 2002 Completion EOY
2003
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What the Training is Like

• Focus on the managerial/cultural as well as
  technical considerations of EMS implementation
• Hear mentors (Tier 1)Elgin AFB, Camp Lejuene,
  Ft. Lewis (tentatives)
• Learn proven implementation strategies (pilots)
• Highly participative (50 lecture/50 exercise)
• Complete key EMS tasks in-class/homework
• Download EMS materials from DoD only web access
  (Denix after pilot)
• Networking opportunities with other
  installations, services mentors

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Training Benefits

• Allow time to implement system
• Get jump by using a free resource for EMS
  training and tool development
• Be leader in DoD EMS implementation required by
  EO

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For Questions

• Army POC
• Roc Tschirhart
• 404-524-5061
• Air Force POC
• Dave Glass
• 404-562-4201

• Navy POC
• Laila Capers
• 904-542-1530
• Marine Corps POC
• Tony Best
• 910-451-0150

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DoD Region 4 Pollution Prevention Kick Off Meeting
Regional EMS Alliance State-Level EMS
Implementation Training
A partnership of
Presented by Cam Metcalf Tim Piero August 8,
2002