Cost-Effective Environmental Management System

Many corporations have purchased commercial-off-the-shelf environmental management information systems (EMIS). While EMIS applications are helpful, as relational database systems they have inherent design limitations and cannot form the basis for a comprehensive corporate information delivery system. Commercial EMIS were developed for transactional data management…not for analysis, reporting, decision-making, or program integration.

 

I developed a better solution.  With the power and capabilities of standard “off-the-shelf” software as it exists today, I developed an integrated system that links data across air, water, chemical use, and waste streams to simplify reporting and record-keeping.

 

This tool has been used successfully for:

 

• MULTI-MEDIA:

• Management overview of environmental regs applicable to facility;

• Air emissions summary;

• Air process flow diagrams;

• Emission factor calculations and throughputs;

• Summary of waste generation and generator requirements including link to applicable reporting forms; and,

• Wastewater discharge process flow with contaminant of concern projections.

 

• AIR COMPLIANCE:

• Compile air permit requirements, data requirements, and inspections for source with approximately 240 emission points.

   

• CHEMICAL REPORTING:

• Compile chemical data for facility with over 1400 chemicals for Tier II, TRI, and air emissions reporting.

   

• WATER COMPLIANCE:

• Process flow diagram used to predict concentrations of contaminants contained in new chemical formulations in CSO system.  Facility utilized system for capital planning purposes for wastewater/ stormwater upgrades.

   

• WASTE MANAGEMENT:

• Used to segregate waste streams in facility including recycled materials.  System also summarized waste quantities by category and included procedures w/ links to State Regulatory Agency forms for reporting purposes.