Environmental Management System of Waste Facilities Business Unit

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The five major elements of the Environmental Management System are listed as follows :

Environmental Policy

  • establish the intention and commitment with respect to the services, activities and overall environmental performance of EID.

Planning

  • review and identify significant environmental aspects of the activities and services of EID, as well as the legal and other requirements that were applicable to these aspects.
  • establish environmental targets and objectives to meet the Environmental Policy, and an Environmental Management Programme to achieve these objectives and targets.
  • incorporate the designation of responsibility and measurable environmental performance indicators in the Environmental Management Programme

Implementation and Operation

  • develop an EMS organisation structure with appropriate environmental responsibilities for personnel at each level, and arrange relevant training to all staff.
  • develop and maintain appropriate operational control procedures to ensure that the Environmental Policy can be met.
  • document relevant information of the EMS in accordance with document control guidelines.
  • communicate to all staff and relevant external parties about the EMS and the environmental performance of EID.

Checking and Corrective Action

  • monitor and measure regularly the environmental performance of the key activities and services of EID against the requirement of the EMS.
  • carry out corrective and preventive actions to investigate and eliminate any non-conformance identified in the monitoring process.
  • conduct periodic EMS Internal Audits to ensure that the system conforms to the planned arrangements and has been properly implemented and maintained.

Management Review

  • review the EMS regularly to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness.
  • Continual improvement can be achieved by regularly evaluate the environmental performance of the EMS against its environmental policy, objectives and targets for the purpose of identifying opportunities for improvement.

 

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