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EMS Service Package
Altech is
offering a comprehensive service package specifically designed to
assist organizations seeking certification of their environmental
management system under the ISO 14001 Standard. Our package covers
those elements of the standard that require specialized knowledge
and often prove to be the most time consuming to implement.
These are: 1) identifying environmental aspects and evaluating their
significance; 2) identifying legal and other requirements and
specific compliance tasks that apply to your plant; and 3) tracking
changes in the legal requirements and determining the impact of
those changes on your plant’s EMS. The package also includes 4
hours of telephone consultation support designed to provide you with
expert advice and save you time while implementing your EMS. We
would be pleased to offer you a fixed-cost quotation for your plant.
Details.
Environmental
Performance Evaluation
ISO 14031 is an international standard that
describes a process for measuring environmental performance. It is
not a standard for certification, as is ISO 14001. The EPE tool is
designed to provide management with reliable and verifiable
information on an ongoing basis to determine whether or not its
organization’s environmental performance is meeting criteria it
has set for itself. It fits into the ISO 14000 series of standards,
and is intended to assist organizations obtain ISO 14001
certification. ISO 14031 is also being used by organizations of all
sizes, types, locations and complexity, and provides benefits to
organizations with and without environmental management systems in
place. The following article describes the EPE methodology as set
out in the ISO 14031 standard together with its benefits and
objectives, implementation steps, and the results from a recent case
study. Details.
Regulations and
Compliance
Environmental Emergency
Regulations, CEPA, 1999
The E2 Regulations apply
to commercial and industrial facilities that store or use any of 174
initially targeted substances at or above specified minimum
quantities. The regulations require the preparation and
implementation of environmental emergency plans detailing
prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery measure in the case
of an environmental emergency. Under the regulations Environment
Canada must be notified regarding the presence of regulated
substances and the development and implementation of the
Environmental Emergency Plan. The regulations come into force on
November 18, 2003. For more information please click here.
Ontario Drinking Water Systems Regulation
(O. Reg. 170/03)
The new Ontario Regulation 170/03, made under the Safe Drinking
Water Act, 2002, came into force on June 1st, 2003. This regulation
prescribes strict and mandatory drinking water system requirements
that are the toughest in Canada. The regulation addresses eight
categories of drinking water systems. This now includes water
treatment systems that supply water at less than 2.9 L/s (or less
than 250,000 L/day).
Drinking water systems require a Professional Engineer to prepare
an evaluation report and certify that the water system is in
compliance with the regulatory requirements.
The deadlines for
meeting the minimum treatment requirements, along with the
Engineering Evaluation Report and Owner’s Notice to the MOE
Director for each of the eight categories are listed in O. Reg.
170/03.
Additional information about the
regulations may be obtained at www.ene.gov.on.ca.
For ways which Altech can assist, click here.
Consolidated and
Comprehensive Certificates of Approval for Air Emission Sources
In addition to obtaining Certificates of Approval for individual
processes, there are now two options being offered by the MOE for
pursuing site-wide approvals:
- Consolidated Site-Wide Approval, and
- Comprehensive Site-Wide Approval.
In both cases, all sources of air emissions including noise
emissions and previously grand fathered sources are included in the
application and one CofA document is issued covering all the
sources. The application process is essentially the same. The
difference between the two is in the way in which future amendments
to the approvals are handled, and the conditions placed on the
approval. The Comprehensive approach provides limited
flexibility to make facility and process modifications without
formally amending the certificate for each modification. This
approach is a benefit to companies expecting to make CofA amendments
on a frequent basis. The Consolidated approach is essentially the
same as the traditional approach used for individual sources, but
provides one approval for the entire site. A Consolidated CofA must
be amended to address each process and equipment modification. For more information contact
Henri van Rensburg by email
or phone at 416-467-5555 Ext. 230.
Employment
Opportunities
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