The emergency situations that require preparedness and response measures may originate from within your organization, and have the potential to affect the environment, or conversely, it may be an environmental condition that has the potential to affect your organization.
Contents
An environmental emergency can arise at any moment within your company. This may very well affect the surrounding environment, which will, in turn, affect your business. Verify that your organization has the processes in place which are ready to trigger a planned response to environmental emergencies.
The emergency response section requires your organization to establish and maintain process to:
The emergency response procedure(s) should describe how you plan to mitigate potential environmental emergency situations which might could include the following scenarios:
When determining potential environmental incidents and emergency situations, consult the following sources:
In addition to consulting the above resources, it is useful to perform a walk-through inspection to identify potential environmental incidents and emergency situations.
Walk-through inspections are most effective when performed during typical operating conditions using observational and non-threatening interview and communication techniques.
Environmental emergency plans are the result of prior planning, testing, and the coordination of internal and external resources. Emergency response plans should provide written instructions and information to use during an emergency situation.
Such plans can also provide information to prevent or mitigate environmental impacts and health and safety risks.
Environmental emergency response plans should include facility layouts and MSDSs, and should be filed with the emergency responding agencies.
Emergency responders must be familiar with facility layouts and potential hazards, and must be adequately trained to prevent and mitigate a variety of human and environmental impacts.
Your organization must review and revise, when necessary, its emergency preparedness and response procedures, especially after an incident or emergency situation has occurred.
You must also periodically test such procedures where practicable. Otherwise, your emergency response plans may never be tested and determined to be adequate until after an incident or emergency that may have been avoidable had proper testing been undertaken and documented.
All of the ISO 14001 clauses are fully-documented and explained in our Environmental Management System Template (EMS).
We have procedures, templates, checklists, process maps, forms and gap analysis tools to help your documentation without missing a single input or output.
Before you invest all the hours reinventing the wheel, before you spend countless dollars outsourcing the task — try our templates.
Updated: 26th February 2022
Author: Richard Keen
Richard is our Compliance Director, responsible for content & product development.
But most importantly he is ISO's biggest fanboy and a true evangelist of the standards.
Learn more about Richard
Don’t Try to Manage It All Alone!
Our ISO Auditors and Quality Manager Trainers have been in this industry for years, and since 2002 we’ve been providing thousands of small businesses and large corporations with the tools they need to get certified.
Instead of trying to create everything you need to follow this process from scratch, use ours. We have procedures, templates, checklists, process maps, forms and gap analysis tools to help you control your documented information without missing a single input or output.
Before you invest all the hours reinventing the wheel, before you spend countless dollars outsourcing the task — try our templates.
| QMS ISO 9001 |
EMS ISO 14001 |
OH&S ISO 45001 |
|
|
Emergency Situations Procedure The purpose of this procedure is to outline your organization’s methodology for controlling emergency situations. Despite our organization’s best efforts, emergency situations can occur, and therefore effective emergency preparation and response can reduce injuries, prevent or minimize environmental impacts, protect employees and neighbors, reduce asset losses, and minimize downtime. Forms & Reports also included:
>> Free Download - Control of Calibrated Equipment Procedure - this will give you a good idea of what to expect when you purchase the procedure. |
$19 USD |
Pay by Credit Card, Debit Card, PayPal or Apple Pay.
|
Please read our Money Back Guarantee. |
Bought by Small Businesses and Large Corporations our templates have been sold online and CD since 2002.
Used by:
The Templates are used by first-timers following our step-by-step, clause-by-clause guidance documents; and experienced Quality Managers wishing to streamline and improve their existing documentation.
The application of our templates is scalable and generic; regardless of the size and type of organization. The elements that form the quality management system are the same.
1. Our customizable templates save you time and money by offering a streamlined process to create your quality documentation
2. They’ve got everything you need in one simple template
3. Proven to work our templates have helped thousands of businesses big and small achieve certification
4. Documents use styles to make reformatting and rebranding a breeze
5. Our templates are generalizable for any industry or sector. The application of our templates is scalable and generic; regardless of the size and type of organization.
| About Us | Contact Us | 
|
Endeavour Technical Limited © 2002 - 2023 |
|
71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom |
|
Registered in England No. 07175526 |
|
| [email protected] | |
Telephone: 0845 054 2886 (UK only) |
|
| Terms | Privacy | |
