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Jennie Colville – Project Manager
Carl Ruffell – Sustainable Travel Advisor
Viv Walker – Carbon Hub Advisor
Steps To Environmental Management (STEM) Level 1
Agenda• What is the SEBCH?• What is Steps To Environmental Management (STEM)?• What is an Environmental Management System? • Achieving Blue Level
1. Management Commitment2. Baseline Assessment3. Significant Environmental Impacts4. Draft Environmental Policy5. Data Collection
• Summary• Application process• What you need to do next?• Coming up on SEBCH
What is the SEBCH?
• Online community of businesses in SE taking action against climate change
• Membership benefits:– Free access to interactive website:
– Carbon footprint– Reduce costs by cutting carbon– Network with like-minded businesses
– Information on relevant environmental issues– Access to team of sustainability experts– Sustainable Travel Service– STEM– Environmental review– Webinars– Monthly e-newsletter, and much more…
What is STEM?
• Step-by-step guide to implementing an environmental management system– Blue, Silver, Gold
• Introduction to environmental management
• Support from Sustainable Business Advisors
• FREE accreditation scheme to SEBCH members
What is an EMS?
The way you manage your environmental impacts
For example:
• what do you do with your waste?
• Do you watch how much electricity you use?
EMS standards
- Real carbon reduction
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Why are you here today?
Tenders/bids and PQQs require it
Be more environmentally friendly
Improve reputation
Minimise environmental liabilities
Maximise resource efficiencies / cut costs
Reduce waste
Customers are asking about it
Learn more about environmental management
Other
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Getting started on STEM
Download STEM assessment form.
Links to documents and resources required.
Timeline >2+ weeks
Send form and
attachments to [email protected].
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1. Management Commitment
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2. Baseline Assessment
• What does your business do?
• Do you know all your environmental legal requirements
• Walk-round audit checklist
• Do you need a Site Plan?
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https://southeastbusiness.carbon-
hub.com
What does your company do?
Manufacturing Retail Food
Business Consultancy Print Design
Architects Cleaning Signage Secretarial
Construction Interior Design Waste
Security Env. Services
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bit.ly/
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bit.ly/fOxXnF
3. Significant Environmental Impacts & Aspects Register
• Aspects: business activities• Impacts: Environmental
effects• Are they severe?• Are the likely?• Are they significant?
Register
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3. Significant Environmental Impacts
Identify environmental impacts
Aspect: The cause
Element of an organisation’s activities, products or services that can interact with the environment. For example, discharge of trade effluent into sewers/rivers ultimately…
Impact: The effect
Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, resulting form an organisation’s activities, products or services. In the example opposite the impact of trade effluent into sewers are: harmful to health of sewer workers, water pollution polluted river, effecting the wildlife and plants.
3. Your aspects and impacts
Manufacturing Retail Food
Business Consultancy Print Design
Architects Cleaning Signage Secretarial
Construction Interior Design Waste
Security Env. Services
3. Example
Type of company Aspects (activities) Impacts
(their effects)
Printing Use of inks and chemical processes
VOCs into the atmosphere, health issues for staff
Manufacturing Use of energy intensive machinery
Use of fossil fuels, release of co2 into the atmosphere
Business consultancy Business travel to meetings
Use of fossil fuels, release of co2 into the atmosphere
3. Significant Environmental Impacts
Environmental Aspects Register
Choose the top ones: 20:80 rule
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4. Draft Environmental Policy
Upload your Draft Environmental Policy
Key features of a policy:• Covers the main environmental issues of the business• Commitment to continuous improvement• Commitment to preventing pollution• Commitment to comply with legislation• Makes clear commitments• Is clearly written and concise• Up-to-date • Senior management commitmentLook at others
Draft only…it will develop as you learn more about your business’s interaction with the environment.
Structure of an Environmental Policy document
Environmental policy for [your Business Name]1. Executive policy Statement2. Environmental objectives3. Targets 4. Responsibilities5. Policy review6. Communication7. Management commitment to policy and
date
5. Data collection
• STEM uses CARBON FOOTPRINT as measure of environmental performance
• Carbon footprint is measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
5. Data Collection
Emission-releasing activity Source of information
Electricity Total kilowatt hours from electricity bills OR meter readings
Natural gas Total kilowatt hours from gas bills OR meter readings
Water Total water in cubic meters (m3) from water bill
Business travel Litres of fuel purchased from invoices and receipts OR vehicle mileage from vehicle log books/odometers
Commuter travel Staff travel survey
Waste/recycling Amount of bags/skips/tonnes of waste or recycling collected from waste collection provider
5. Data collection
• You can collect this data in the following ways:– Collate all your bills– Use Data Collection Workbook -
bit.ly/h1zBQZ – Request an Environmental Review– Conduct employee surveys for commuter
travel
STEM Summary
1. Management Commitment 2. Baseline Assessment 3. Significant Environmental Impacts 4. Draft Environmental Policy 5. Data Collection
Congratulations!
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Application process
• Fill in assessment form and attachments
• Contact us if you need any assistance along the way
• Email your application to [email protected] (include attachments)
Cherry on the top….
Blue Level: 1000125
What do you need to do now?
SEBCH member Non-member
Download Assessment Form from SEBCH website
Register for SEBCH: email [email protected]
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Next levels…
• Carbon Footprint
• Reduce
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Communication and Training
• Legal Requirements
• Review
• Monitor and Measure
• Reduce
• Targets
• Climate Change
• Environmental Policy
• Carbon Footprint
• Report
• Check and Review
• Future Action Plan
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Coming up…
• E-newsletter in February• Next webinar: 22nd February 2011: Making
carbon management simple• LinkedIn group
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Questions?
