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Environmental Management Flashcards

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What are the 4 primary components of the continuous improvement model?

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1) Plan (ID and establish goals)
2) Do (implement systems)
3) Check (monitor and ID corrective actions)
4) Act (make changes as required)

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What is environmental management?

What is one large issue with Air Pollution?

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When operations take place the environment and ecological factors are considered as operational constraints.
- Air pollution travels great distances, causes atmospheric changes, can cause climate shift.

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What are the most common types of pollution?

What is the WHO?

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Air, Soil, and Water Pollution.

The World Health Organization. Dedicated to protecting the environment and human health.

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What are the 5 R’s of Waste Management?

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Resource Recovery, Residual Management (dispose of nonsalvageable material safely).

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What are responsibilities a company must understand to prepare for development of an environmental management system?

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1) Aware of legislated requirements
2) Aware of corporate responsibility
3) Comprehension of environmental assessment process
4) Development and implementation of an EMS

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What are some causes of desertification?

What are some causes of water pollution?

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  • High output farming, nuclear pollution, heavy industry, growing population
  • Spillage of chemicals, contaminating soil
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What was the Love Canal Incident?

What was the Bhopal Incident?

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  • Hazardous waste buried in Niagara Falls (US). Homes build on land, made everyone sick and was abandoned. Still cleaning up.
  • Largest Disaster, Dec 3 1984, 40 tonnes of MethylIsocyanate released killing 3800 immediately, fined 470 million. Still cleaning up.
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What was the Deepwater Horizon Incident?

What was the Chernobyl Disaster?

What was the Three Mile Island Disaster?

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  • Oil and gas leak from 2010 blowout and burndown of rig, Oil leaked into gulf of Mexico for 87 days.
  • Reactor core meltdown in April 1986 releasing large amounts of radioactive waste into atmosphere.
  • Partial meltdown in Pennsylvania in 1979 with some release of radioactive material.
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What was the Exxon Valdez Disaster?

What was the Walkerton Ontario incident?

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  • Oil tanker ran aground in 1989 releasing 10.8 million gallons of crude oil.
  • Walkerton drinking water had E. Coli exposure in 200 from improper water treatment.
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What are the 3 Primary Components of a WHMIS program?

Are Pesticides regulated by WHMIS? If not how?

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  • Product Labelling, SDS, Worker Training

- No, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency and the Pest Control Products Act

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What information must be on a Shipping Document?

What is CANUTEC?

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  • Chemical Name, Hazard class and category, UN Chemical ID #, Packing Group, Quantity, Name and Address of the cosigner and consignee.
  • Canadian Transport Emergency Center, requires all companies register and provide details of products they transport so emergency response can access the information
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Where is WHMIS legislation found in :
BC
Alberta
Federal

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  • BC Workers Compensation Act and OHSR Part 5
  • AB OHS Code part 29 WHMIS Sections 395-414
  • Federal - Canadian OSH Regulations Part 10
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Match the 9 Classes in TDG
1                    Corrosive
2                   MISC
3                   Radioactive
4                   Explosives
5                   Poisonous
6                   Gases
7                   Flammable Liquids
8                  Oxidizing
9                  Flammable Solids
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1 - Explosives
2 - Gases
3 - Flammable Liquids
4 - Flammable Solids
5 - Oxidizing, Organic Peroxides
6 - Poisonous Substances
7 - Radioactive
8 - Corrosive 
9 - MISC
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Who administers the Transport of Dangerous Goods Act in Canada?
- What does IATA do?

  • What is a dangerous good?
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  • Transport Canada
  • Further governs international transportation of dangerous goods by air.
  • Anything that is explosive, flammable, toxic, corrosive, radioactive, or harmful in any way to the environment or humans
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What is CEPA?

What are the guiding principles of CEPA?

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  • Canadian Environmental Protection Act
  • Ensure sustainable development needs of the present and future
  • Prevent unnecessary pollution
  • Ensure prevention of environmental degradation
  • Forcing polluting orgs to pay for cleanup
  • Removing threats to biological diversity
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What is Canada’s Green Plan?

What is Agenda 21?

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  • The first attempt by the Federal Government to integrate environmental and economic concerns together.
  • Document signed as a result of 1992 earth summit. A ‘non-binding, voluntary implemented action plan of the UN in regard to sustainable development’.
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In terms of Regulatory Instruments, define:
Acts and Regulations
Permits and Licenses
Orders

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1) Acts and Regs are passed by parliament or provincial government. Acts are broader than regulations, but regs must be pursuant to an Act.
2) Permits and Licenses - issued by the federal/provincial governments as dictated by Acts and Regs
3) Orders are issued by federal/provincial governments to companies that do not comply with the Acts and Regs

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Define Environmental Law

What is the difference between the two primary sources of environmental legislation:
Statutes
Civil Law

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  • Laws governing behaviour of persons/businesses and agencies to protect environment and health of humans from possible adverse effects arising from the environment.
  • Statutes are formed through parliament, forming our acts/regs and codes, while Civil law is common law based on judicial precedence and not written law.
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Who manages environmental issues at a federal level?

Who provides the avenue for Federal/Provincial Communication?

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  • Environment Canada

- Canadian Council of Ministers and the Environment

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What are the primary duties of the CCME?

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  • Integration of environmental legilsation
  • Adoption of standards and national objectives
  • Development of strategies concerning national, international and global level environmental related concerns
  • Improvement of links between Federal and Provincial Jurisdiction
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What are the Primary Concerns of Pronvincial/Territorial Jurisdictions (environmental)?

What are Municipal Objectives?

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  • Issuing permits and license, regulation of any developmental projects taking place, on-site inspections, issuing prosecutions for offenses.
  • Managing pollution of air and water, public complaints of odors/dust/noise, public health, regulating dangerous substance
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