EN3403 Environmental Management Systems Syllabus:
EN3403 Environmental Management Systems Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To impart an understanding of systems approach to Environmental Management as per ISO 14001 and skills for environmental performance assessment in terms of legal compliance, pollution prevention and continual improvement.
UNIT I ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENTSTANDARDS
Unique Characteristics of Environmental Problems – Classification of Environmental Impact Reduction Efforts – Systems approach to Corporate environmental management – Business Charter for Sustainable Production and Consumption – Tools and Barriers – Evolution of Environmental Stewardship –National policies on abatement of pollution and conservation of resources – Charter on Corporate responsibility for Environmental protection – Environmental quality objectives – Rationale of Environmental standards: Concentration and Mass standards, Effluent and stream standards, Emission and ambient standards, Minimum national standards, environmental performance evaluation: Indicators, benchmarking
UNIT II PREVENTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Pollution control Vs Pollution Prevention – Opportunities and Barriers – Cleaner production and Clean technology, closing the loops, zero discharge technologies – Four Stages and nine approaches of Pollution Prevention – Getting management commitment – Analysis of Process Steps- source reduction, raw material substitution, toxic use reduction and elimination, process modification –Material balance – Technical, economical and environmental feasibility evaluation of Pollution Prevention options in selected industries – Preventive Environmental Management over Product cycle.
UNIT III ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
ISO 14000 family- EMS as per ISO 14001– benefits and barriers of EMS – Understanding the organisation and its context- Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties- Determining the scope of the environmental management system- Leadership and commitment- Environmental policy- Organizationalroles, responsibilities and authoritiesActions to address risks and opportunities- Environmental objectives and planning – Resources- Competence-Awareness- Communication-Documented Information –Operational Planning and Control- Emergency preparedness and response- Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation – Management review
UNIT IV ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT
Environmental management system audits as per ISO 19011-Internal Audits and Certification Audits – Principles of auditing- Roles and qualifications of auditors – Determining auditor competence- Managing an audit programme – Establishing and Implementing audit programme- Selecting audit team members and Assigning responsibility – Conducting an audit- opening meeting, Audit evidence gathering – Collecting and verifying information – Managing and maintaining audit programme records- closing meeting and reporting – Non conformance – Corrective and preventive actions – Continual improvement – compliance audits – waste audits and waste minimization planning – Environmental statement (form V) – Due diligence audit
UNIT V CASE STUDIES
Case studies on applications of EMS, Waste Audits and Pollution Prevention in Textile industry , Tanning industry, Electroplating, Pulp & Paper, Dairy, Chemical industries and service organizations.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course, the student is expected to
CO1 Explain the various elements of Corporate Environmental Management systems and audits complying to international environmental management system standards
CO2 Apply the knowledge of science and engineering fundamentals to pollution prevention assessment and environmental performance evaluation
CO3 Develop environmental management systems for organisations
CO4 Conduct environmental management system audits taking into account the sustainability context
CO5 Conduct research pertinent to pollution prevention and communicate effectively to different stakeholders as well as engage in independent life-long learning
REFERENCES:
1. ISO 14001/14004:2016 Environmental management systems – Requirements and Guidelines – International Organisation for Standardisation, 2015
2. ISO 19011: 2018, “Guidelines for auditing Management Systems, International Organisation for Standardisation, 2018
3. ISO 14031:2021, Environmental management — Environmental performance evaluation Guidelines, International Organisation for Standardisation, 2015
4. Marek Bugdol and Piotr Jedynak, Integrated Management Systems, Springer International, 2015.
5. Ryan Dupont, Kumar Ganesan, Louis Theodore, Pollution Prevention: Sustainability, Industrial Ecology, and Green Engineering, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2016
6. Paul L Bishop †Pollution Prevention: Fundamentals and Practice€, McGraw- Hill International, Boston,2004.
7. Lennart Nilsson, Per Olof Persson, Lars Rydén, Siarhei Darozhka and Audrone Zaliauskiene,Cleaner Production Technologies and Tools for Resource Efficient Production, The Baltic University Environmental Management book series, Uppsala 2007