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selection process, product design process, engineering

planning process for capital requests, engineering work


orders, facility modification authorizations, or layout and
process change plans.
Involving EHS professionals, who have the experience,
competence, and training necessary to assess and manage
EHS impacts and risks, and carry out specialized
environmental management functions including the
preparation of project or activity-specific plans and procedures
that incorporate the technical recommendations presented in
this document that are relevant to the project.
Understanding the likelihood and magnitude of EHS risks,
based on:
o The nature of the project activities, such as whether the
project will generate significant quantities of emissions or
effluents, or involve hazardous materials or processes;
o The potential consequences to workers, communities, or
the environment if hazards are not adequately managed,
which may depend on the proximity of project activities to
3 Defined as threats to humans and what they value (Kates, et al., 1985).
4 Defined as quantitative measures of hazard consequences, usually expressed as
conditional probabilities of experiencing harm (Kates, et. al., 1985)
people or to the environmental resources on which they
depend.
Prioritizing risk management strategies with the objective of
achieving an overall reduction of risk to human health and the
environment, focusing on the prevention of irreversible and / or
significant impacts.
Favoring strategies that eliminate the cause of the hazard at
its source, for example, by selecting less hazardous materials
or processes that avoid the need for EHS controls.
When impact avoidance is not feasible, incorporating
engineering and management controls to reduce or minimize
the possibility and magnitude of undesired consequences, for
example, with the application of pollution controls to reduce
the levels of emitted contaminants to workers or environments.
Preparing workers and nearby communities to respond to
accidents, including providing technical and financial
resources to effectively and safely control such events, and
restoring workplace and community environments to a safe
and healthy condition.
Improving EHS performance through a combination of ongoing
monitoring of facility performance and effective accountability
Industry Sector Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS)
Guidelines by providing information about common techniques for
emissions management that may be applied to a range of industry
sectors. This guideline provides an approach to the management
of significant sources of emissions, including specific guidance for
assessment and monitoring of impacts. It is also intended to
provide additional information on approaches to emissions
management in projects located in areas of poor air quality, where
it may be necessary to establish project-specific emissions
standards.
Emissions of air pollutants can occur from a wide variety of
activities during the construction, operation, and decommissioning
phases of a project. These activities can be categorized based on
the spatial characteristic of the source including point sources,
fugitive sources, and mobile sources and, further, by process,
such as combustion, materials storage, or other industry sectorspecific
processes.

Where possible, facilities and projects should avoid, minimize, and


control adverse impacts to human health, safety, and the
environment from emissions to air. Where this is not possible, the
generation and release of emissions of any type should be
managed through a combination of:
Energy use efficiency
Process modification
Selection of fuels or other materials, the processing of which
may result in less polluting emissions
Application of emissions control techniques
The selected prevention and control techniques may include one
or more methods of treatment depending on:
Regulatory requirements
Significance of the source
Location of the emitting facility relative to other sources
Location of sensitive receptors
Existing ambient air quality, and potential for degradation of
the airshed from a proposed project
Technical feasibility and cost effectiveness of the available
options for prevention, control, and release of emissions

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