Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention
()
About this ebook
Nicholas P Cheremisinoff
Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Ph.D. (Ch.E.) is Director of Clean Technologies and Pollution Prevention Projects at PERI (Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC, Rockville, MD). He has led hundreds of pollution prevention audits and demonstrations; training programs on modern process design practices and plant safety; environmental management and product quality programs; and site assessments and remediation plans for both public and private sector clients throughout the world. He frequently serves as expert witness on personal injury and third-party property damage litigations arising from environmental catastrophes. Dr. Cheremisinoff has contributed extensively to the literature of environmental and chemical engineering as author, co-author, or editor of 150 technical reference books, including Butterworth-Heinemann’s Handbook of Chemical Processing Equipment, and Green Profits. He holds advanced degrees in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology."
Read more from Nicholas P Cheremisinoff
Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Polymer Characterization: Laboratory Techniques and Analysis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndustrial Gas Flaring Practices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDust Explosion and Fire Prevention Handbook: A Guide to Good Industry Practices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHandbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Advanced Polymer Processing Operations Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Environmental and Health and Safety Management: A Guide to Compliance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liquid Filtration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Handbook of Hazardous Chemical Properties Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs): Contaminants of Concern Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGroundwater Remediation: A Practical Guide for Environmental Engineers and Scientists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFiberglass Reinforced Plastics: Manufacturing Techniques and Applications Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Materials Selection Deskbook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBiotechnology for Waste and Wastewater Treatment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPollution Control Handbook for Oil and Gas Engineering Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNoise Control in Industry: A Practical Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hydraulic Fracturing Operations: Handbook of Environmental Management Practices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHandbook of Emergency Response to Toxic Chemical Releases: A Guide to Compliance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElectrotechnology: Industrial and Environmental Applications Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClean Electricity Through Advanced Coal Technologies: Handbook of Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Green Profits
Management For You
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Malcolm Gladwell's Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Summary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Strategy Skills: Techniques to Sharpen the Mind of the Strategist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Managing Oneself: The Key to Success Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emotional Intelligence Habits Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of The Laws of Human Nature: by Robert Greene - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Principles: Life and Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Get Ideas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Company Rules: Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New One Minute Manager Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great Ceos Are Lazy: How Exceptional Ceos Do More in Less Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 12 Week Year (Review and Analysis of Moran and Lennington's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Green Profits
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Green Profits - Nicholas P Cheremisinoff
Organization
Road Map to Part I: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Part I of this book is designed to provide what the reader needs to put an EMS in place. It includes information for convincing top management and others that establishing an EMS is in the best interests of the enterprise, and shows how an EMS fits in with and reinforces existing management systems. It provides the means for assessing what kind of EMS would be best for a particular enterprise, and shows how to take the first steps toward establishing one. It offers tools and techniques for fully implementing an EMS, whether it’s a minimal EMS or one that will pass an ISO 14001 certification audit. And, most important, it aims to provide a real understanding of what an EMS is, how it works, how it makes or saves money for an enterprise, and how it can be adapted to the unique and changing needs of a particular enterprise.
Our purpose in the four chapters of Part I is to serve anyone with an interest in the subject of environmental management systems. We make the point (perhaps too often) that an EMS is not about ISO 14001 certification; rather, it’s about running an enterprise better, more efficiently, more competitively, and more sustainably, and about making and saving money. Running an enterprise is a creative endeavor; accordingly, Part I is built on the assumption that readers want to understand what an EMS is all about and then apply themselves creatively to building one that operates efficiently and delivers huge benefits for their enterprises. Consequently, Part I does not dwell so much on the details of what different EMS procedures enterprises should include as it does on the knowledge and tools managers need to figure this out for themselves in the context of their enterprise’s operations.
In some cases, top management may be interested for the time being only in experimenting lightly with a simple and limited EMS, perhaps to see if it offers a better way to ensure the enterprise’s compliance with environmental regulations or to minimize the risk of environmental liabilities. At the other extreme, top management may be interested in achieving ISO 14001 certification in a few months. The material in Part I has been developed to serve those extremes, as well as everything between, while keeping in mind students and others who just want to be well-informed on the subjects of EMS and ISO 14001.
Chapter 1 starts with a short overview of the basic principles and concepts of EMSs, what ISO 14001 is all about, and the core elements of ISO 14001. As with all chapters in this book, the last section of Chapter 1 contains a brief review of the main points. At the end of the chapter are some questions for individual consideration or classroom discussion (other chapters in Part I have questions and exercises, or just exercises at the end). The reader who picks up this book only because he or she is wondering exactly what an EMS is or perhaps what ISO 14001 is, and no more, will have their curiosity completely satisfied by Chapter 1. If the chapter stimulates a deeper interest, or if for other reasons the reader wants to go beyond basic principles and concepts, he or she should move on to Chapter 2.
Chapter 2 fully explains:
• Each element of an EMS and what role it plays in the overall management system
• Each element’s minimum requirements
• How each element relates to other EMS elements
• How each element can be adapted to the needs of different enterprises
• Exactly what ISO 14001 requires for each element
• What an enterprise needs to have in place to pass an ISO 14001 certification audit
Chapter 2 follows the outline of ISO 14001, which is organized as a series of clauses and subclauses that each represent a distinct element of the EMS. Except for the introductory and review sections, the sections of Chapter 2 correspond to the elements of ISO 14001. Though the material stands on its own, enterprises concerned with ISO 14001 certification will benefit most by reading Chapter 2 with a copy of the ISO 14001 standard at hand. The chapter is called EMS: Applied Models
because it contains information that enables the reader to create an EMS model uniquely appropriate for the circumstances of his or her enterprise.
After reading a section of Chapter 2, some readers will want immediately to see the tools and techniques for implementing that EMS element. Those readers can jump to the counterpart section of Chapter 3 before going on to the next section of Chapter 2. For example, after reading the section of Chapter 2 on environmental policy, learning what an environmental policy is, and what ISO 14001 requires for the environmental policy of an enterprise, a reader may want to explore the processes and tools for establishing an environmental policy before moving on to an explanation of the next EMS element. The counterpart section of Chapter 3 will provide that information, and will be easy to find because the counterpart sections in the two chapters have exactly the same names. In this case, both are called Environmental Policy (Clause 4.2).
Chapter 3 presents tools and techniques for establishing and maintaining an EMS, and is organized the same as Chapter 2 — by ISO 14001 clauses and subclauses. If Chapter 2 is the overall what and why
of each element of an EMS, Chapter 3 is the how and what does it contain?
chapter. Chapter 3 offers lists, worksheets, outlines, tips, and so on — practical help for creating an EMS and maintaining it, whether it’s an ISO 14001 or some other type of EMS. Readers who already have a full understanding of the details of an EMS, have already taken the first basic steps toward setting up an EMS in their enterprises, and want only to access concrete tools for establishing, maintaining, or upgrading their EMSs, can limit their reading to Chapter 3. However, we recommend reading Chapter 2 as well, because the spirit of the presentation in Chapter 3 flows from the presentation in Chapter 2, and there is some material in Chapter 2 that is equally relevant to Chapter 3 but is not repeated there. Material in counterpart sections of Chapter 2 is referenced frequently in Chapter 3, and knowledge of the former will help in the understanding of the