Who, What, When, Where and How

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Environmental
Management
Systems

• Who, What, When, Where and How

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Environmental Management Systems

• An organized formal approach to managing
  environmental issues.
• Concept An organization should manage its
  environmental aspects as it manages core business
  functions.

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ISO 14001 EMS Model

• Adopted in 1996, by International Organization
  for Standardization (ISO)
• To achieve and demonstrate sound environmental
  performance by controlling the impact of
  activities, products or services on environment.

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Plan, Do, Check, Act Model
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Environmental Management System

• This continual improvement process includes
• setting environmental policy
• conducting planning to ensure success of the
  policy
• implementing practices, programs, and procedures
• monitoring and measuring to evaluate
  environmental performance
• checking for and correcting identified problems
  and
• periodically reviewing the entire system at a top
  management level.

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Environmental Policy

• Commitment to continual improvement
• Complies with regulations and other requirements
• Framework for setting/reviewing objectives and
  targets
• Documented and communicated to employees
• Available to the public

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Plan

• Aspects and impacts
• Legal and other requirements
• Objectives and targets
• Environmental management programs

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Aspects and Impacts
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Do

• Structure and Responsibility
• Training
• Communication
• Document Control
• Operational Control
• Emergency Preparedness and Response

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Check

• Monitoring and Measurement
• Nonconformance and Corrective and Preventive
  Action
• Records
• EMS Audit

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Act

• Management review

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EMS Benefits

• Institutional memory
• Reduces liabilities and risks-disposal and
  workforce
• Reduces costs
• Meet regulatory compliance standards
• Improved image

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Various EMS Models

• Responsible Care
• Lean Manufacturing
• Six Sigma

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Responsible Care

• Chemical industrys voluntary initiative to
  continuously improve their health, safety and
  environmental performance, and to communicate
  with stakeholders
• Some fundamental features
• Formal commitment to set of guiding principles
• Series of codes, guidance notes, and checklists
  to fulfill commitment
• Development of indicators to measure performance
• Open communication on health, safety and
  environmental matters inside and outside industry
• Procedures for verifying that members have
  implemented the measurable or practical elements
  of Responsible Care.

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Lean Manufacturing

• Management philosophy focusing on reduction of
  the seven wastes to improve overall customer
  value

• Transportation
• Inventory
• Motion
• Waiting time

• Over-production
• Processing Itself
• Defective Product

• By eliminating waste, quality is improved,
  production
• time and costs are reduced.

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Lean Manufacturing

• Methods for achieving Lean include
• Kaizen (Japanese for improvement) rapid
  improvement events,
• Just-in-time manufacturing,
• Total productive maintenance,
• Cellular production ( or synchronous,
  single-piece flow manufacturing), and
• Six Sigma.

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Six Sigma

• A system of practices developed by Motorola to
  systematically improve processes by eliminating
  defects.
• Defects are defined as units that are not members
  of the intended population.
• Six Sigma is a metric for measuring defects and
  improving quality, and a methodology to reduce
  defect levels below 3.4 defects per one million
  opportunities.

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West Liberty Foods L.L.C.Benefits and
Challenges of creating an EMS and becoming 14001
Certified
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Why did we decide to develop an EMS?
West Liberty Foods was asked to participate in
the Pilot Project for EPA for the meat
processing industry in 2001.
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What kind of a commitment would West Liberty
Foods need to join the pilot project?

• We were told it would take about 2000 hours to
  complete the pilot project and our EMS.
• We made the commitment to join the pilot project
  and West Liberty Foods was one of 5 companies to
  participate.
• The pilot project was completed in 2002.

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Benefits of an EMS and becoming ISO 14001
certified are

• It transforms your business from being reactive
  to proactive in response to environmental issues.
• Your management becomes more aware of
  environmental concerns and how they can affect
  the company.
• We constantly are looking at better ways to
  improve our environmental performance
• Cost Savings

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Benefits of an EMS and becoming ISO 14001
certified are

• Work Instructions are given to employees to
  manage their environmental aspects in each of
  their departments.
• We use the EMS Environmental Management Programs
  to help us manage many of our environmental
  projects.
• The EMS can help you prepare should you ever have
  a spill or a release.
• Some of our customers like the fact that we are
  ISO 14001 certified.

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West Liberty Foods Efforts

• Materials Recycled through City Carton Company
• Cardboard
  550,211 lb 275 tons per year 23 tons per
  month average
• Mixed office paper
  11,906 lb 6 tons per year 0.5 tons per
  month average
• Magazines
  1,220 lb 0.6 tons per year
• White paper
  350 lb 0.2 tons per year
• Plastic buckets
  3,262 lb 1.6 tons per year
• Shrink wrap
  12,059 lb 6 tons per year 0.5 tons
  per month average

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West Liberty Foods Efforts

• Total amount recycled through City Carton 290
  tons
• Payment received from City Carton 11,544.31
• If the material would have been land filled at
  44/ton, the cost would have been 12,760.00

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Did You Know?

• More than 41 billion glass containers are made
  each year recycling only one of those saves
  enough energy to light a traditional 100-watt
  bulb for 4 hours. Imagine how long a CFL would
  last with that much energy!

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Did You Know?

• Making one ton of recycled paper uses 64 percent
  less energy and 50 percent less water reduces
  air pollution by 74 percent saves 17 trees and
  creates five times more jobs than manufacturing
  one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp.

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Questions?