Environmental Management Flashcards
What are the 4 primary components of the continuous improvement model?
1) Plan (ID and establish goals)
2) Do (implement systems)
3) Check (monitor and ID corrective actions)
4) Act (make changes as required)
What is environmental management?
What is one large issue with Air Pollution?
When operations take place the environment and ecological factors are considered as operational constraints.
- Air pollution travels great distances, causes atmospheric changes, can cause climate shift.
What are the most common types of pollution?
What is the WHO?
Air, Soil, and Water Pollution.
The World Health Organization. Dedicated to protecting the environment and human health.
What are the 5 R’s of Waste Management?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Resource Recovery, Residual Management (dispose of nonsalvageable material safely).
What are responsibilities a company must understand to prepare for development of an environmental management system?
1) Aware of legislated requirements
2) Aware of corporate responsibility
3) Comprehension of environmental assessment process
4) Development and implementation of an EMS
What are some causes of desertification?
What are some causes of water pollution?
- High output farming, nuclear pollution, heavy industry, growing population
- Spillage of chemicals, contaminating soil
What was the Love Canal Incident?
What was the Bhopal Incident?
- Hazardous waste buried in Niagara Falls (US). Homes build on land, made everyone sick and was abandoned. Still cleaning up.
- Largest Disaster, Dec 3 1984, 40 tonnes of MethylIsocyanate released killing 3800 immediately, fined 470 million. Still cleaning up.
What was the Deepwater Horizon Incident?
What was the Chernobyl Disaster?
What was the Three Mile Island Disaster?
- Oil and gas leak from 2010 blowout and burndown of rig, Oil leaked into gulf of Mexico for 87 days.
- Reactor core meltdown in April 1986 releasing large amounts of radioactive waste into atmosphere.
- Partial meltdown in Pennsylvania in 1979 with some release of radioactive material.
What was the Exxon Valdez Disaster?
What was the Walkerton Ontario incident?
- Oil tanker ran aground in 1989 releasing 10.8 million gallons of crude oil.
- Walkerton drinking water had E. Coli exposure in 200 from improper water treatment.
What are the 3 Primary Components of a WHMIS program?
Are Pesticides regulated by WHMIS? If not how?
- Product Labelling, SDS, Worker Training
- No, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency and the Pest Control Products Act
What information must be on a Shipping Document?
What is CANUTEC?
- Chemical Name, Hazard class and category, UN Chemical ID #, Packing Group, Quantity, Name and Address of the cosigner and consignee.
- Canadian Transport Emergency Center, requires all companies register and provide details of products they transport so emergency response can access the information
Where is WHMIS legislation found in :
BC
Alberta
Federal
- BC Workers Compensation Act and OHSR Part 5
- AB OHS Code part 29 WHMIS Sections 395-414
- Federal - Canadian OSH Regulations Part 10
Match the 9 Classes in TDG 1 Corrosive 2 MISC 3 Radioactive 4 Explosives 5 Poisonous 6 Gases 7 Flammable Liquids 8 Oxidizing 9 Flammable Solids
1 - Explosives 2 - Gases 3 - Flammable Liquids 4 - Flammable Solids 5 - Oxidizing, Organic Peroxides 6 - Poisonous Substances 7 - Radioactive 8 - Corrosive 9 - MISC
Who administers the Transport of Dangerous Goods Act in Canada?
- What does IATA do?
- What is a dangerous good?
- Transport Canada
- Further governs international transportation of dangerous goods by air.
- Anything that is explosive, flammable, toxic, corrosive, radioactive, or harmful in any way to the environment or humans
What is CEPA?
What are the guiding principles of CEPA?
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act
- Ensure sustainable development needs of the present and future
- Prevent unnecessary pollution
- Ensure prevention of environmental degradation
- Forcing polluting orgs to pay for cleanup
- Removing threats to biological diversity
What is Canada’s Green Plan?
What is Agenda 21?
- The first attempt by the Federal Government to integrate environmental and economic concerns together.
- Document signed as a result of 1992 earth summit. A ‘non-binding, voluntary implemented action plan of the UN in regard to sustainable development’.
In terms of Regulatory Instruments, define:
Acts and Regulations
Permits and Licenses
Orders
1) Acts and Regs are passed by parliament or provincial government. Acts are broader than regulations, but regs must be pursuant to an Act.
2) Permits and Licenses - issued by the federal/provincial governments as dictated by Acts and Regs
3) Orders are issued by federal/provincial governments to companies that do not comply with the Acts and Regs
Define Environmental Law
What is the difference between the two primary sources of environmental legislation:
Statutes
Civil Law
- Laws governing behaviour of persons/businesses and agencies to protect environment and health of humans from possible adverse effects arising from the environment.
- Statutes are formed through parliament, forming our acts/regs and codes, while Civil law is common law based on judicial precedence and not written law.
Who manages environmental issues at a federal level?
Who provides the avenue for Federal/Provincial Communication?
- Environment Canada
- Canadian Council of Ministers and the Environment
What are the primary duties of the CCME?
- Integration of environmental legilsation
- Adoption of standards and national objectives
- Development of strategies concerning national, international and global level environmental related concerns
- Improvement of links between Federal and Provincial Jurisdiction
What are the Primary Concerns of Pronvincial/Territorial Jurisdictions (environmental)?
What are Municipal Objectives?
- Issuing permits and license, regulation of any developmental projects taking place, on-site inspections, issuing prosecutions for offenses.
- Managing pollution of air and water, public complaints of odors/dust/noise, public health, regulating dangerous substance
