790 Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

Examples

It's so important for you to understand these basic EMS concepts, so in the next few sections we'll look at the primary activity at XYZ Transportation Company: Transport of heavy equipment.

We'll identify examples of environmental aspects, impacts, objectives, strategies, and tactics used to reduce negative impacts. We'll describe the impacts they may have on the environment, the objectives to improve the impacts, and finally, the associated task strategies and tactics to achieve each objective.

• Aspect: Transportation and vehicle use (including agency employee commuting methods and patterns, agency employee travel).
• Impacts: Air emissions and resource depletion.
• Objective: Reduce fuel consumption by 5% in 2 years.
• Task Strategies and Tactics: Requirements and tasks that can reduce impacts include:
• Determine current fuel consumption to establish baseline data.
• Devise a system to track fuel consumption and progress.
• Encourage the use of public transportation.
• Allow telecommuting.
• Encourage the use of alternative fuels.
• Encourage walking or biking to work.
• Purchase fuel-efficient vehicles for the fleet.

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