Quiz 2 Questions Flashcards
Element of an organization’s activities, products, or services that can interact with the environment. Cause. Example: waste solvents (VOCs)
-A: Impact
-B: Aspect
-C: Risks
-D: Opportunities
Aspect
Any change to the environment whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization’s environmental aspects. Effect. Example: air pollution from VOCs reacting in atmosphere (troposphere) to form O3.
-A: Risks
-B: Impact
-C: Aspect
-D: Opportunities
Impact
Potential adverse effects (threats). Example: grading equipment or other equipment with hydraulic systems operating in close proximity to a wetland, stream or other navigable water body (i.e., spill of petroleum product – hydraulic leak)
-A: Aspect
-B: Impact
-C: Risks
-D: Opportunities
Risks
Potential beneficial effects. Example: Byproduct generated by a process that can be used as a substitute for a raw material “input” into another process to produce a product.
-A: Aspect
-B: Impact
-C: Risks
-D: Opportunities
Opportunities
List one of the typical stages of a product’s Life Cycle discussed in class:
Design
If your organization had a goal of Zero Waste to Landfill, which of the following graphs (a, b, or c) showing monitoring and measurement would be most informative to senior management?
-A: Landfill Tonnage bar graph trending down
-B: Bar graph of Landfill Tonnage vs Production Data
-C: Line Graph of Normalized Landfill Tonnage per widget produced.
Bar graph of Landfill Tonnage vs Production Data (Shows that landfill tonnage is decreasing with increased production)
Arrange the Pollution Prevention concepts: Substitution, Engineering Control, Administrative Control, Elimination, and Secondary Containment in order of overall effectiveness (most protective of the environment should be listed first). Hint: Think in terms of Risk Reduction
-A: Substitution, Engineering Control, Elimination, Secondary Containment, Administrative Control,
-B: Elimination, Substitution, Engineering Control, Administrative Control, Secondary Containment
-C: Elimination, Substitution, Administrative Control, Engineering Control, Secondary Containment
-D: Engineering Control, Elimination, Substitution, Administrative Control, Secondary Containment
Elimination, Substitution, Engineering Control, Administrative Control, Secondary Containment
Select the statement or statements that best represent the ISO 14001:2015 standard.
-A: ISO 14001:2015 is a consensus standard that can be used by organizations in establishing an EMS.
-B: ISO 14001:2015 - Clause 9.1.1 describes Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis & Evaluation.
-C: Continuous Improvement is not important in demonstrating conformance to the standard.
-D: Significant environmental aspects should be monitored, measured, analyzed and evaluated as part of demonstrating conformance to the standard.
-E: Organizations with an EMS are always in compliance with environmental regulations.
-F: a, b, c, d
-G: a, b, d
a, b, d
The following sources of information may be useful to the environmental specialist in identifying an organization’s environmental aspects and in establishing annual environmental goals and objectives.
-A: Raw materials usage records
-B: Air permit
-C: Wastewater discharge permit (NPDES)
-D: Hazardous waste disposal records
-E: Nonhazardosus waste disposal records
-F: Energy usage records
-G: a, b, c, d, e, f
-H: a, f
a, b, c, d, e, f
indicators measure outputs such as pounds of pollutants emitted or discharged
-A: Leading
-B: Lagging
Lagging
