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A comprehensive understanding of environmental aspects and their impacts on the environment. It covers the definition and identification of environmental aspects, direct and indirect, and their potential impacts on air, water, land, and natural resources. The document also discusses the importance of recognizing and recording environmental aspects for effective environmental management.
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The identification of environmental aspects is an important step towards recognizing their impacts on our planet. This proves helpful in setting and formulating objectives, targets, and other programs that may be directed towards solving environmental problems.
Environmental Aspect is an element of an organization's activities, products or services that can interact with the environment. There are two types of environmental aspects:
(i) Direct Environmental Aspect Activities over which a company can be expected to have an influence and control. For example, emissions from processes.
(ii) Indirect Environmental Aspect Actual or Potential activities over which the organization can be expected to have an influence, but no control. For example, supply chain controlled aspects, customer controlled aspects, aspects managed elsewhere within the same company.
(a) Identify Activities, Services and Products. (b) Draw up an inventory of all operations and processes, identify releases (normal, abnormal, accidental, and emergency situations). (c) Consider direct and indirect environmental aspects. (d) Consider:
In the study of environment, it is essential to identify each possible environmental aspect and impact of it on our surroundings. The various environmental aspects each have a number of different impacts on the environment. Potential impacts must also be identified.
1.1. Environmental Impact Any change to the environment whether adverse or beneficial (wholly or partially) resulting from an organization's activities products or services. 1.2. Significant Impact The activity that results in substantial breach of statutory regulations under abnormal conditions.
Knowledge of environmental aspect and impact is necessary in order to have a thorough awareness of the world we live in.
Inputs and Outputs of a manufacturing process
Activity Spray Painting Aspect Emissions of Solvent to air Impact Global Warming plus Ozone Depletion
Activity At start up of spray painting Aspect Emissions of Solvent to water Impact Water Pollution
Possible Aspect Construction Impact Visual
Possible Aspect Production, processes, waters Impact Dust
Possible Aspect Machinery, traffic Impact Odor, noise, vibration