Environmental Management System Planning

• Corporate Environmental Policy Statements
• Evaluate Multimedia Compliance Audit Findings
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures
• Regulatory Compliance Plan/Calendar
• Define Organization Structure
• Organizational Roles and Responsibilities
• EMS Training Programs
• Tracking/Measuring Performance
• Management Reporting Systems
• Corrective Action Programs

Dvirka and Bartilucci Consulting Engineers (D&B) is a premier environmental engineering firm with a practice specializing in achieving and maintaining multimedia environmental compliance. Whether related to the hospital/healthcare industry, colleges and universities, semiconductor/microelectronics, or the petroleum/chemical storage section, D&B can help you with your compliance needs.

You many have just spend a considerable amount of your annual budget achieving environmental compliance now the management challenge is to maintain the compliance that you have worked so hard to achieve. The solution turn to D&B and consider and Environmental Management System or EMS.\

What is an EMS? Basically, an EMS is inexpensive compliance insurance. Simply put, an EMS is a tool that assists management with identifying, monitoring, correcting/improving and reporting on the status of compliance. For example, working together with management at a health car facility, or responsible officials at a college/university, semiconductor facility, or virtually any industry sector, D&B staff completes a thorough evaluation of the operations either by reviewing the results of a previously prepared multimedia compliance audit or conducting a new/updated compliance audit. Once we have an understanding of the facility operation that are subject to environmental regulations and the extent to which they must comply, we can create a regulatory compliance plan to meet these needs. The regulatory compliance plant is a “roadmap” that identifies the required compliance activity, when it must be completed during a calendar year and what media are affected, that is, air, water, solid waste, hazardous waste, etc.

Once the compliance plan is in place, the question of exactly who carries it out must be answered. The D&B team then creates and organization chart that identifies the individuals within your company or operation that will be assigned the challenge of maintaining compliance. Ideally, the organization chart will identify the “lead” and “backup” person responsible for implementation of each element in the compliance plan.

Internal and external reporting is the key to a successful EMS. External reporting, say, to regulatory agencies, in a consistent manner is a critical measure of the success in achieving one of the underlying goals of the plan. Internal reporting allows management, as an example, to monitor the effectiveness of the external reporting, as well as to “audit” the accuracy of the overall compliance over time. The management reporting element of the EMS also allows for required changes to the EMS to be identified either due to operating changes or a modification of existing regulatory requirements.

Maintaining your present environmental compliance is important. An EMS is most likely the least expensive and easiest means of attaining that goal at your facility. Consider the investment and experience the D&B difference. Experience how D&B stays with you every step of the way.

For more information on D&B’s Multimedia Environmental Compliance services, please contact Senior Vice President, Richard M. Walka, at (516) 364-9890 x 3006, or Vice President, Brian M. Veith, P.E., at (516) 364 x 3009.