API PUBL 9100A:1998 pdf download.Model Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Management System
An environmental, health and safety (EHS) management system is a process that applies a quality systems approach to managing EHS activities. This approach uses a cyclical process (Le., plan, implement, assess and adjust) that takes experiences and learnings from one cycle and uses them to improve and adjust expectations during the next cycle. The system focuses on people and procedures by pulling together company EHS policies, legal requirements, and business strategies into a set of company or facility expectations or requirements to achieve continual improvement in overall EHS performance consistent with company EHS policies. Additionally, management systems should incorporate processes to identify and resolve root causes of non-compliance issues. The Model EHS Management System (EHS MS) is a tool or template to help members, industry sectors, and others develop or enhance an EHS MS. However, it is not expected that this particular system necessarily be used. Companies may choose to organize their management systems differently depending upon other existing systems andor procedures that are to be incorporated into their own management systems, or emphasis that company management may want placed on certain system elements. The Model EHS MS is intended to be flexible and adaptable by scaling up or down to fit the size and complexity of a company’s or facility’s operations.
Potential benefits of EHS management systems include: reduced injuries, incidents, emissions, wastes, operating costs, and potential liability; as well as improved reliability, profitability, reputation and credibility. It is helpful to integrate EHS management with business management at the earliest possible stages of business planning and R8D efforts. This facilitates merging business objectives and EHS objectives. It focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of the integrated process, as well as on the long-term benefits of improving EHS performance and stewardship. The company defines expectations or requirements that specify what EHS management areas should be addressed. Operating units or facility employees decide how they will achieve these expectations; this does not mean that all employees undertake the same actions on the same schedule to achieve a particular expectation — nor does it mean that all employees work on the same expectations during a particular cycle. To be successful, all employees should share a common understanding of this process. The Model EHS Management System has been defined generally; each individual company may adapt this system as necessary to fit their own corporate visions, business strategies and values. A companion document has been prepared, entitled Guidance Document for Model EHS Management System, API Publication 91 OOB, for those companies seeking additional assistance for development and implementation of their EHS management system.