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1)
What is the official Environmental Stewardship Policy at BNL? The Environmental Stewardship Policy is at http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/stewardship.htm
2)
What do you know about EMS?
Refer
to the information on your ESSH Policy Card or go to C-A ESHQ web page for
Environmental
Management and click on
EMS
Program Documents.
3)
What are the environmental aspects related to your work? An environmental aspect is a waste or an operating/work activity that if done improperly or if a component fails could pollute the environment. Some environmental aspects are: hazardous waste, radioactive waste, atmospheric discharge, soil activation, storage/use of chemicals, etc. For a listing of the C-AD/SMD environmental aspects that are considered significant go to Significant Aspects.
You can also find more information on how to prevent an environmental aspect
from polluting the environment
at Pollution Prevention and
How Do I Manage
This Waste Stream?
4)
How do you avoid potential environmental accidents in your work?
Through
proper use of the Work Planning System and by perf
5)
How do you prevent pollution (e.g., recycling) in your daily work?
Through
proper use of the Work Planning System and by being aware of your commitment
to protect the environment and reduce waste.
6)
What response/actions would
you take in the event of an environmental emergency?
Call
ext-2222 or ext-911. Follow Emergency Procedures in
C-AD OPM
3.0 or in the
SMD OPM.
7)
How are you made aware of new environmental requirements that affect you
daily work?
Through
flow-down of requirements from lab level documents to procedures and work plans. Laboratory Subject Areas
are generated to incorporate new requirements into high-level Laboratory-wide
documents. Operating Procedures are
written to implement the new requirements at the working level. Departmental
procedure training is performed so
the C-AD/SMD staff can implement the Operating Procedures.
8)
Are there environmental objectives and targets associated with your work?
What is your role in achieving them?
Targets
and objectives are listed
on the
Environmental
Management Program forms for specific processes. Your role in
achieving them is identified during training. All
C-A Staff who work in areas that have the potential for significant impact on
the environment have been notified and trained. The training documents can be found at
Process Specific
EMS Training.
9)
What are your environmental R2A2’s?
10)
Are environmental operational
controls in place and functioning as specified on the EMS Operational Control
Forms?
Environmental
operational controls are documented on
Operational
Control Forms. Environmental operational controls are integrated into the Operations Procedures
for a specific process. For example, Water
System Operational Controls are related to procedures for water treatment, deionizer
maintenance, and handling and disposal of waste.
11)
Are records available to show the operational controls are being
maintained? Know what environmental records you keep and the associated OPM’s. To learn about the records and OPM’s associated with your work, please look at the Operational Control Form for the process of interest.
12)
Are contractors that perform work in your area made aware of the
operational controls?
The
Work Planning System captures the training requirements for contractors –
if specific environmental training is required, then it will be noted in the
work planning. For example, BNL contractor Drew Chemical training is covered
under the Work Permit process.
13)
Are there any environmental measurements taken in your area that require
calibrated equipment? Is the equipment calibrated?
With the exception of
measurements made by the C-A Radiation Control Group, there has been no
calibrated equipment identified in the EMS system at C-AD/SMD.
14)
Is preventative maintenance performed on equipment? Are back-up systems
available to provide continuous control of operations?
In
order to answer this question for your specific work, consider the following
examples, and try to think of similar
examples that protect the environment
in your area. Examples
of preventive maintenance are periodically changing-out cooling water to prevent
build-up of high concentrations of tritium, and checking activated
soil caps for cracks or tree roots. An example of continuous control would be the use of
un-interruptible power supplies to back up controls for monitoring the flow and
pressure in cooling water systems.
15)
How would you document an environmental nonconformance? For C-AD, contact the C-A ESHQ Division Head (Ray Karol x5272), who will forward the appropriate information to the C-A Quality Representative (Dave Passarello x7277), for documentation on a Nonconformance Report. For SMD, contact the ESH Coordinator (Ken Krasner x2563) and the SMD Quality Representative (Ray Roberts x2182).
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