Environmental risks and opportunities following the concepts in ISO 14001 are
really important to understand and really important to get a handle off so
in this video we thought we talked about ISO 14001 and how to identify
environmental aspects and impacts or risks and opportunities in the context
of this manufacturing organization we're really passionate about helping your
organization to be growth focused more profitable and in this video more
environmentally sustainable so I hope it helps let's see what we've got
Thanks for joining us here at Best Practice TV in this particular
episode we're on-site in the fabrication facility and we thought we'd take the
opportunity just to take you guys through how to identify environmental
risks and opportunities in accordance with ISO 14001 so I've just parked
myself here and obviously in front of a huge nitrogen canister but I just
wanted to quickly talk about recycling so in this instance we've got some waste
products which are the outputs of this business I'll talk about the inputs in a
minute but the outputs of this particular business the you know we've
got scrap metal we've got obviously paper and in this particular company
about 95 percent of their waste is recycled but more importantly the large
outputs from this business in terms of waste products are their aluminium and
their stainless steel and that's what these these two bins are here we've got
our stainless steel been here and then we've got the aluminium bin behind us
and that comes from the fabrication activities that the company undertakes
this particular manufacturing facility has a laser cutting facility and that's
what's happening here we use the nitrogen to supercool the
head of the laser so that we can cut sheet metal very very quickly very very
accurately so this nitrogen here is an input to the process so we've got a
laser cut laser metal cutting facility that's got inputs in terms of nitrogen
and the sheet metal products that we cut and then the outputs obviously we've got
waste products and the waste materials so when you're writing up your
environmental aspects and impacts register or your environmental risks and
opportunities register there's a great opportunity in this business to recycle
these products now there are people that come and purchase
this material so the materials not a write-off it's absolutely fantastic it's
still in great condition because it's a fresh sheet it's just had the pieces
that this factory needs cut out of it but the rest of it is a fantastic raw
material for other processes so this gets sold so this becomes a revenue
source for this particular business a way to make money so instead of paying
to send this material to landfill this business is saving money or making money
by selling their scrap material now this bin here which is our blue paper
recycling bin this bin here it's quite bulky and the paper that we recycle is
quite bulky so the material that's in here cardboard paper that sort of stuff
that doesn't have to go to landfill as well because it can be recycled so the
environmental impact that we are reducing is the amount of waste going to
landfill and we could put that on a graph so my question to you is how do
you track your waste to landfill? is it quantities? is that volume? is at weight?
So what we're doing here this is an initiative to reduce the bulk volume of
waste that we send to landfill some of what we can make money out of it we sell
this stuff here this particular business sells it and in this instance here we
don't pay to dispose of this so that's the supplier sends us a bin the bin is
free we put paper and cardboard in it and they take it away for free and it's
a free service which is absolutely fantastic
so check your local jurisdiction about what you can recycle are there people in
your marketplace that will purchase your outputs so obviously the main output of
this business is a customer purchases the finished product but there are also
other people that will purchase the other outputs from this business all
part of our passion here at Best Practice to make companies more fun more
financially profitable and viable safe and in this instance environmentally
sustainable so check it out have a look at your process flow what are your
inputs this is an input here a very expensive thing that needs to be
purchased nitrogen that's an input consumption of nitrogen is the
environmental aspect and and then the impact is depletion
it's a natural resource it's a resource that needs to be consumed so we want to
try and be efficient with that it cost money obviously we don't want to waste
it and then the outputs so ordinarily this
stuff you know it's a it's a it's a manufactured part and the manufactured
parts you know we've put labor into it we've put raw materials into it
fortunately it's not all lost like we're not this particular product is not going
in the bin this you know even though you can't sell it so this is some sort of
manufactured part looks like a shelf or a tray can't be sold but what it can be
is recycled so the recycler will come and pick up all this material they'll be
quite excited and the and the price that gets paid for this is not a lot
different from the raw material price so you know in terms of the net loss it's
not huge so the good the scrap metal prices at
the moment are quite high so ok we've lost a bit of labor and a bit of time
and maybe 30% on the cost of goods sold I'm sorry the cost of goods purchase so
we had to buy this stuff and it's now become waste but hopefully the margin on
the products has covered for that wasted I think these guys price in you know
they have a certain amount of waste that they they they cost into their raw
material cost because they know they've got to out there know they've got to
dispose of it they want to be efficient in that other scrap metal then you'll
see that the parts when they cutting out a sheet they nest the parts together so
there's not too much wasted material in between the parts so quite a cool system
right now we're at the black lab design sheet metal manufacturing facility so
these guys is a really interesting company we've featured them before on
our YouTube channel they're one of our customers and my brother is a
shareholder here so we get the opportunity to come in and shoot videos
see this so that's a scrap material there's cutting out at the moment so the
parts that's the waste products so this is a waste product again we still get
recycled so unfortunately to make these parts
this is the material that's left over so that will go into scrap and that's a
that's an output so that so the environmental opportunity
is it could go to landfill but a better thing for the environment is to recycle
it so these are the these are the parts obviously that parts defective but it's
just a good example of the part that's being manufactured with the laser I
don't know what they're for were done what they do but um that's what's being
made here at the moment we've done with this so you can hear some of the other
environmental risks and opportunities we're making noise so don't forget noise
so I've got a bit of a checklist that I used for environmental management I go
land air water noise Natural Resources that's sort of my checklist in my head
so land air water you know noise or sorry air Natural Resources so you can
say well from our organization's perspective how do we affect those those
mediums if we like do we affect landfill - you know do we do we consume natural
resources that's your land your air is you know have we got gasses
or smoke or dust emitted to us atmosphere water you know we using good
quality water we're making sewage or polluted water noise you know are we
making noise what type of noise temperature - air discharge the air and
then then you know we can circle back the natural resources we can talk about
flora and fauna you know forests you know timber all
that sort of stuff they're just good you know the good words use as part of your
checklist this is a metal factory that we're looking at here but you can see
right beside us is we've got wooden pallets and the wooden pallets you know
we've got to use natural resources to make these pallets fortunately these
pallets become an asset that we can use over and over again in particular these
pallets they get reused that they come with the raw material so up here on the
wall in this particular factory is all of the raw material and all the
different types of raw material and so the pallets become a great opportunity
for we reuse those pallets in some instances or this factory does to send
out the raw materials so sorry that all the raw materials all the finished
product so they're good opportunity to keep using that packaging so
can you reuse your packaging in your organization if you're in some sort of
manufacturing facility how can you reuse your packaging and and
could that be promoted as an environmental initiative so that's been
environmental risks and opportunities talking about ISO 14001 and just looking
at some practical examples of obviously inputs and outputs on this manufacturing
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