Environment Management for Power Plants

Overview:

Introduction:

You will learn about the Best Worldwide Practices in Power Plant Environmental Technology and Management. Step-by-Step Setting Up a Power Plant Quality Assured Good Environmental Management System.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:

• Understand the business benefits of sound environmental management
• Appreciate the environmental management systems
• Know how legislation and international conventions affect businesses
• Become knowledgeable of environmental terms
• Understand the process of waste minimization
• Explore the types of emergencies that have effects on the environment
• Plan an environmental management program

Targeted Audience:

Those new to the field take away a good multi-discipline understanding of the issues involved in their work. It helps them in becoming productive quickly and in building a knowledge framework that will help them identify, understand, classify, and remember the job learning and experiences.

Implementation Teams: This program can be used to train implementation teams - when a new project or initiative is being started in your organization; when a new strategic focus is being initiated; just prior to a consultant being hired to advise the organization.

Course Outlines:

Unit 1: Environmental Context:

• How humans interact with the environment?
• Definitions: ‘climate change’, ‘air’, ‘water and land pollution’, ‘biodiversity’ and ‘depletion of natural resources’
• The costs of environmental pollution
• The hydrological cycle and the carbon cycle
• Resource Consumption
• Waste minimization

Unit 2: Environmental Legislation & Management:

• Key aspects and requirements of UK legislation
• Environmental Protection Act, IPPC, PPC
• European directives and national legislation impact on commercial activities
• Common Management Systems
• Environmental Management Systems
• EMAS, ISO 14001

Unit 3: Environmental Aspects & Policy:

• Identify how an organization’s activities can affect the environment
• Identify and describe an organization’s environmental aspects
• Evaluate the significance of environmental effects to prioritize an organization’s environmental activities indirect aspects that might influence supplier performance
• How to write an environmental policy?
• Appropriate techniques to disseminate the policy

Unit 4: Environmental Management Techniques & Training:

• Practical environmental management techniques in waste minimization
• Prioritize actions needed to improve performance
• Changing work activities to improve environmental performance
• Benefits of environmental awareness and management education
• Factors to be considered in the development and content of the training program
• The necessity for feedback and evaluation

Unit 5: Environmental Auditing, Reporting, and Emergency Plans:

• Undertake an internal audit to an agreed specification and make recommendations
• Producing an environmental report adopting good practice features
• Types of emergency that might have an impact on the environment
• How prior preparation and provision of training and resources can mitigate any effects?