Waste gases, vapours and small particles
released into air.
Environment
External surroundings and conditions
in which a company or an individual operates or which may effect,
including living systems therein.
Environmental
controls
Put in place to meet or exceed legal
requirements and to minimise impact on environment.
Environmental
Impact Assessment (EIA)
Part of project management concerned
with identifying through a formal written technical evaluation
likely impact (positive and negative) of a proposed development
or activity on natural and man-made environment.
Environmental
Management Systems (EMS)
A process that examines environmental
factors and activities or processes that industry uses.
Generic
Hazard
Hazard which
may be generally present throughout an operation or industry,
but which may have widely different levels of risk, depending on specific site characteristics.
Hazard
Object, physical effect, or a condition
with potential to harm persons, property or environment.
Reasonably
Practicable
Risk reduced to
levels such that further risk reduction measures would be so
disproportionate to probability and consequence that it would
be objectively unreasonable to implement them.
Risk
Measure of likelihood of occurrence of an undesirable event
and of potentially adverse consequences.
Risk
Assessment
Careful consideration by competent
persons of hazards
associated with a task. Potential effect of each hazard, how
serve it might be and likelihood of it occurring, should be considered
to determine effort required to make site as safe as reasonably practicable.
Risk
Management
System that eliminates or mitigates
threat from hazards.
