Environmental Incidents and Emergency Reporting
October 16th, 2008So what exactly is an environmental incident and how exactly do you tell if you have experienced an environmental incident?
The National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) defines an ‘incident’ as an unexpected sudden occurrence, including a major emission, fire or explosion leading to serious danger to the public or potentially serious pollution of or detriment to the environment, whether immediate or delayed.
Recycling Is A Good Place To Start
September 10th, 2008At present recycling is performed as a precautionary and reasonable measure to avoid pollution.
Your waste can cause water and soil pollution as well as a nuisance at your landfills. Currently recycling is not a legal requirement however the National Environmental Waste Bill, sec 16 proposes to enforce a general duty …
Are You ‘Sick’ Of The Dust?
August 19th, 2008Dust is becoming a major problem again.
The African summer is here and after the dry winter we’re anxious for the first summer rains to fall.
In the last month there have been numerous queries relating the health of workers relating caused by dust pollution from various sources such as dirt roads, …
ISO14001 EMS Legal Requirements
July 12th, 2008It is very common for an organisation to assume that legal requirements of the ISO 14001 system are mostly contained in sub clause 4.3.2 Legal and other requirements.
This however is not the case and can be substantiated by a useful document called “Legal Compliance as part of Accredited ISO …
Cara Stokes from CS Environmental. Cara has specialised in environmental legal auditing in terms of ISO14001 and environmental legal training. Here she blogs about Environmental Management issues.
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