Environmental Aspects and Impacts Register

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND IMPACTS REGISTER

Environmental Aspect / Environmental Impact /
Process/Product/Service / Environmental Receptor(s) / Potential Impact / Applicable Requirement (if any) / Impact Rating /
Use of green field site to build premises / Flora
Fauna / Destruction of plants species
Destruction/Disruption of wild life habitat / The Town & Country Planning Act 1990 / Medium
Use of steel in construction process / Land
Air / Consumption of minerals
Degradation of land
Indirect pollution through energy use / The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 / Medium
Potential environmental aspect considerations: /
Energy Consumption: / Water Consumption:
•  Electricity
•  Fuel Oil
•  Natural Gas
•  Petroleum Spirit
•  Other Fuel
•  Purchased Steam
•  Purchased Chilled Water
•  Propane
•  Coal
•  Photo-cells / •  Site-owned sources
•  Municipal or Private Sources
•  De-ionized Water
•  Bottled Water
•  Other Sources
Supplies:
•  Office Paper
•  Computer Paper
•  Toilet Paper
•  Food
Waste: / Product:
•  Concentrated Corrosives
•  Solvents
•  Adhesives
•  Inks
•  Solder/lead Wastes
•  Oxidizers
•  Paint/Paint Related Waste
•  Photographic Chemicals
•  Waste Treatment Sludge
•  Contaminated Soil
•  Debris
•  Batteries
•  Mercury-containing Wastes
•  Lab Packs
•  PCBs
•  Asbestos
•  Petroleum Waste
•  Hazardous Waste Solids
•  Hazardous Waste Liquids
•  Other Mixtures
•  Automotive Wastes
•  Pesticides, Fertilizers
•  Biomedical/infectious Waste
•  Paper
•  Cardboard
•  Equipment
•  Radioactive Wastes
•  Refuse
•  Wood/pallets
•  Activated Carbon
•  Cafeteria Waste / •  Manufactured Items
•  Energy Consumption in Use
•  Toxic Material Content
•  Recycled Content
•  Upgradability
•  Emissions During Use
•  Use of Consumables:
–  During Use
–  Maintenance, etc.
•  Quantity (weight/volume)
•  Packaging and Shipping Materials
•  Reusability
•  Recyclability
•  Recycled Content
•  Toxic Material Content
•  Material Diversity
•  Biodegradability
•  Transportation
–  Mode/distance
–  Energy Use
–  Emissions
•  End of Life Management
•  Reusability
•  Recyclability
•  Hazardous/toxic Material Content
•  Material Diversity
•  Upgradability
•  Waste Classification
•  Disposal/emissions
Chemical Consumption: / Raw Material & Components:
•  Corrosives (acids)
•  Solvents
•  Adhesives
•  Inks
•  Fluxing Agents
•  Compressed Gases
•  Oxidizers
•  Paints
•  Resins
•  Solder Products
•  Photographic Chemicals
•  Water Treatment Chemicals
•  Petroleum-based Products
•  Maintenance Supplies
•  Pesticides, Fertilizers / •  Silicon
•  Metals
•  Piece Parts (electronic components, circuit boards, semiconductor wafers)
•  Batteries
•  Wire/Fibre Plastics
•  Packaging
•  Pallets
•  Unusual Materials
Water Discharge:
•  Sanitary
•  Industrial Pre-treatment
•  Storm-water
•  Thermal Loading
Community Interactions: / Land Use:
•  Noise, Odour, Vibration, Heat Generation, Site Lighting
•  Employee Commuting
•  Trucking In and Out
•  Dust Generation
•  Electromagnetic Frequency Releases
•  Recycling and Recovery Operations
•  Appearance (Visual Impact)
•  Housekeeping / •  On-site Storage/containment/ distribution/handling of Solids, Liquids, Gases
•  Interactions with natural surface or ground water on the property; wetlands
•  Cooling Tower Operation
•  Thermal Emissions
•  Maintenance Activities
•  Soil Erosion
•  Release of Pesticides, Fertilizers, etc.
•  Remnants of past activities at the site (e.g., soil contamination)

ASPECTS AND IMPACTS DELEGATE EXERCISE BRIEF

You are a manufacturing company making steel frame building kits for construction in the UK for a variety of uses. You take orders from customers and design and build kits to their bespoke needs.

Your business premises have been built by yourselves on a green field site located in a countryside location on the outskirts of a village which is a 15 minute drive via A-Roads to the UK’s motorway network. Although the business is close to a bus route the service is infrequent and not ideal for staff to use to commute to and from work, consequently the site has been constructed with more than adequate levels of car parking for staff and visitors.

The premises consists of an office block with a reception and offices where building orders are received and processed to design drawings, using CAD and other IT systems, in accordance with the customers specifications. Additionally, staff produce installation instructions for each building kit which are provided for potential contractors who will construct the buildings. The office block also houses the accounts department and facilities for meetings and welfare facilities for preparing food/hot drinks and for rest.

Movement of steel and other products around the site is undertaken using Fork Lift Trucks and small mobile cranes and movement of the completed building kits from the site is undertaken using a small fleet of company owned HGV vehicles. All the company vehicles are serviced and maintained on site in a small garage facility and there is a diesel refuelling point and a weigh bridge also located on the site.

Raw steel products are received from suppliers and unloaded onto designated loading areas where they are then moved into the steel fabrication sheds. Within these sheds steel is cut, drilled and welded to form the steel beams as per the CAD drawings and specifications which when assembled will make up the main component parts of the steel frame building kit.

After fabrication, steel beams are moved from the fabrication sheds to the spray painting shed which is fitted with four large Local Exhaust Ventilation systems. Steel is loaded into the shed using FLT’s and then sprayed to the required specification using acrylic paints using a high pressure compressed air system.

The site also has a carpenter’s shop that houses a wide variety of mains powered woodworking machines fitted with a collective Local Exhaust Ventilation system to extract wood dust and shavings directly into a trailer mounted collection facility which is then sold on to another local business. The carpenters shop manufactures any specified doors and windows for the building kits and also produce wooden building beams to replace steel roof beams where corrosive atmospheres may be present (e.g. cattle sheds).

The last building on the site houses a shop/consumables storage facility which provides the required hand tools, nuts, bolts, washers etc needed to erect and maintained the steel framed buildings.

All materials used by the company are UK sourced and building cladding is ordered direct from the manufacturer and delivered from them to the customer site to arrive at the same time as the rest of the building kit to save on transport costs.

Possible Applicable UK Legislation

Abbreviation / UK Legislation
CPA 1989
EPA 1990
WRA
WIA
CAA 1993
PPCA 1999
TCPA 1999
CCA 2004
CLR 2006
COPOSR 2001
TEPPSR 1989
GR 1998
EPR 2011
WR 2011
HWR 2005
SWMPR 2007
COMAH / The Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989
The Environmental Protection Act 1990
The Water Resources Act 1991
The Water Industry Act 1991
The Clean Air Act 1993
Pollution Prevention Control Act 1999
Town and Country Planning Act 1999
Civil Contingencies Act 2004
Contaminated Land (England) Regs 2006
Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) Regs 2001
Trade Effluents (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regs 1989
Groundwater Regulations 1998
Environmental Permitting Regs 2011
The Waste (England & Wales) Regulations 2011
The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regs 2005
The Site Waste Management Plans Regs 2007
The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999