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Environmental Aspects and Impacts: Identification and Assessment, Study notes of Painting

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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  • What are the two types of environmental aspects?
  • What are the potential impacts of air pollution?
  • How are environmental aspects identified?

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Environmental Aspects
~Dr Dilip Ganguly
Environmental Aspects: The Basics
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.
1. Definition of Environmental Aspect
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.
2. Identification of Environmental Aspects
(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:
Emissions to air.
Release to water.
Waste Management.
Contamination of land.
Impact on communities.
Use of raw materials and natural resources.
Other local environmental and community issues.
3. Records of Environmental Aspects
Review based on sound understanding of environmental issues associated with the
process.
Check that both Direct and Indirect Environmental Aspects have been included.
Check the method of assigning significance.
Check that both actual and potential aspects have been included.
Check that legislative requirements have been taken in view.
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Environmental Aspects

~Dr Dilip Ganguly

Environmental Aspects: The Basics

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.

1. Definition of Environmental Aspect

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.

2. Identification of Environmental Aspects

(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:

  • Emissions to air.
  • Release to water.
  • Waste Management.
  • Contamination of land.
  • Impact on communities.
  • Use of raw materials and natural resources.
  • Other local environmental and community issues.

3. Records of Environmental Aspects

  • Review based on sound understanding of environmental issues associated with the process.
  • Check that both Direct and Indirect Environmental Aspects have been included.
  • Check the method of assigning significance.
  • Check that both actual and potential aspects have been included.
  • Check that legislative requirements have been taken in view.

Environmental Aspect and Impact: The Basics

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. Commonly Used Definitions in the Study of Environmental Aspect and

Impact

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.

2. Identification of Environmental Aspect and Impact

Inputs and Outputs of a manufacturing process

3. Cause and Effect

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

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Possible Aspect Construction Impact Visual

Possible Aspect Production, processes, waters Impact Dust

Possible Aspect Machinery, traffic Impact Odor, noise, vibration