MPCEE
SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
TRAINING PROGRAMME
COURSE NAME: SEAS
The objective of the
SEAS TRAINING PROGRAMME is to train course participants to independently
identify and assess environmental aspects of any operation or activity, based
on their company’s Environmental Aspects procedure.
The two-day
training programme, based on this procedure, has been devised specifically to
allow the participants the optimum understanding of the topics that will be
covered in the area of their own operation. Thus enabling them to be an
important member of their EMS Team
The training
programme opens and develops in such a way to bring the participants together
and put them at ease with the trainer and, of course, the other way round to
form a relaxed and informal climate.
Time scales are flexible, dependent on
the number of participants per training programme.
DAY ONE
Duration Content and
Description
1h15 Introduction
and Overview (setting the scene)
1. Who am I?
2. What do I do?
3. Obtain an inventory of their knowledge and experience of
environmental matters and specifically what their understanding of EMS is
4. Has anyone been involved in an environmental incident?
5. Why an EMS?
6.
The importance of why you have procedural processes to
identify Environmental Aspects, in order to ascertain their Environmental
Impact significance
7. Why SEAS?
(i)
To give participants the information and understanding
to undertake the identification and assessment of Significant Environmental
Aspects
(ii)
Offer the participant an introduction to environmental
protection and pollution control from both the legal perspective of business
and the moral obligations of society to protect the environment for the future,
specifically relating their company’s Environmental Policy
Duration Content and
Description
2h00 IDENTIFICATION
AND ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS, as per YOUR COMPANY’S
environmental management system
Highlighting this part of their
Environmental Management System. The participant will be introduced to the
identification and assessment processes, along with the necessity of
understanding their importance in the ongoing monitoring of the company’s
operational processes and activities where there is the possibility of risk to
health and the environment.
- The
process to be discussed is used to ascertain those operations within the
company that may be an environmental hazard, that can be controlled by or,
over which the company has an influence - Environmental Aspects
- The
relevance and relationship of an Environmental Aspect to that of its
potential impact on the environmental - Environmental Impact
- Definitions
to enable understanding of standard reference terms used within an EMS:
a.
Environmental Aspect
b.
Operational Activities
c. Environmental Impacts
d.
Significant
Environmental Aspect
e.
Stakeholder
f. Control of Activities
g. Influence
of Activities
3H15 PROCEDURES
TO BE ADOPTED
PART ONE: IDENTIFICATION
The identification processes as defined in their EMS.
1.
IDENTIFY FUNCTIONAL AREAS
2.
IDENTIFY SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES
3.
IDENTIFY ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE ACTIVITIES
4.
IDENTIFY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE ACTIVITIES
Day ONE WILL CLOSE OFF WITH HIGHLIGHTING THE SALIENT POINTS AND
ANSWERING QUESTIONS RELEVANT TO CLARIFYING CONTENT
Participants will
be asked to return in the morning, having understood the assessment process and
studied the company’s to enable them to discuss by open forum the determination
and prioritisation of significance.
The participant
will be asked to return with an example of an Aspect within their own working
area, to be used as an exercise for Part Two
The second day
will commence with the participant’s own evaluation of identification and what
is required by SEAS in the assessment process.
DAY TWO
Duration Content and
Description
1H15 OVERVIEW OF
PREVIOUS DAY AND the identification process
1. Participants evaluation of the identification processes
themselves
2. Can they, in their own specific place of work, identify the
Aspects as listed in EMS 001 F-A. Do the participants understand their own
working environment in this context?
3. Do they believe that they can identify any environmental aspect
around them?
3H30 PROCEDURES
TO BE ADOPTED
PART TWO: ASSESSMENT
The assessment processes as defined in their EMS.
Introducing the importance of numerical values, based on experience
and professional judgement, to obtain a score, to produce a ranking system.
1.
DETERMINATION AND PRIORITISATION OF SIGNIFICANCE
a.
Legal Requirements
b.
Severity
c.
Probability
d.
Customer Pressure
e.
Community Pressure
2.
PRIORITISE THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS TO DETERMINE
SIGNIFICANCE
a.
Calculate Rankings
b.
Significance from Rankings
The participants will use
the example requested, at the end of Day One, of an Aspect from their own
working area to practise with.
1h00 MANAGEMENT
OF SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
1. An explanation of the
actual management of significant environmental aspects, within the
Environmental Management System
2. Review and updating of the environmental aspects list
0h45 discussion,
questions and conclusion
On completion of
the SEAS training programme participants, drawing on their own knowledge and
professional experience and expertise, will be able to participate and give
input as an important member of their company’s Environment Management System
Team.
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