Environmental Safety: What It Is, and the Difference

The definition: the outside of the site

The environmental safety is the outside of the site — the effect of the site on the environment, and the protection of the environment from the site. The environmental safety is the waste (the hazardous, the general), the emission (the air, the water, the soil), and the spill (the oil, the chemical).

The protection is the permit and the control: the environmental permit (the discharge, the stack), the waste management (the segregate, the store, the dispose, the manifest), and the spill response (the contain, the clean, the report). The environment protected is the permit kept.

The difference: the environmental vs the occupational

The difference is the inside and the outside. The occupational safety is the inside — the people, the accident, the injury. The occupational safety is the risk assessment, the PTW, and the PPE.

The environmental safety is the outside — the environment, the waste, the emission. The environmental safety is the permit, the manifest, and the response. The two sides are the HSE — the H is the health, the S is the safety, and the E is the environment.

The integration: the HSE complete

The integration is the HSE complete — the two standards, one system. The integration is the ISO 45001 (the OHS) and the ISO 14001 (the EMS) on the Annex SL structure — the integrated management system, the one manual, the one internal audit, the one management review.

The integration is the environmental aspect and the OHS aspect: the waste from the process, the emission from the stack, the spill from the tank — and the worker's exposure to the same chemical. The integrated audit is the efficient one: the clause 4 to the clause 10, the context shared, the leadership shared, and the finding one, not three.

The role: the environmental safety officer

The environmental safety role is the environmental safety officer — the person who owns the environment side. The environmental safety officer is the waste management (the segregate, the store, the dispose, the manifest), the emission monitor (the stack, the water), and the spill response (the contain, the clean, the report).

The officer is the ISO 14001 (the EMS, the audit, the certificate) and the compliance (the environment protection act, the local permit). The environmental safety officer keeps the environment protected — and the protected is the permit kept.

The topics: the waste, the emission, the spill

The environmental safety topics are the three. The waste is the hazardous (the waste oil, the waste chemical, the waste battery) and the general (the plastic, the metal, the paper). The waste is the segregate, the store, the dispose, and the manifest.

The emission is the air (the NOx, the SOx, the VOC) and the water (the BOD, the COD, the TSS) — the stack and the discharge, the permit and the monitor. The spill is the oil and the chemical — the contain, the clean, and the report. The three are the environment protected.