Procedure: Identifying Environmental Effects

Introduction
The first step in controlling the affects you have on the environment is to identify the activities in your winery that can damage the environment.

These activities and environmental effects are listed in a document called the Register of Environmental Effects. A draft Register is supplied with this kit – it will be discussed in Step 1 below.

The Register of Environmental Effects is used as a checklist during a later stage of EMS implementation (Controlling Environmental Effects). It is important to include all significant actual and potential effects, and the operations causing those effects, so that nothing is missed.

Procedure

Step 1: Review the Register of Environmental Effects
Review the draft Register of Environmental Effects. Delete and change entries, and add any additional environmental effects, in order to customise the Register for the activities at your winery.

Linked to the Register are a number of Environmental Risk Forms. These list, for each entry in the Register, further details of processes and operations contributing to the environmental effect. (These forms will be reviewed in the next step).

The last column in the Register contains links to information on legal obligations.

Step 2: Review the Environmental Risks forms
Next, review each of the Environmental Risks Forms (accessed via links from the Register). Delete any information that is not applicable to your winery, add any further processes and operations that can affect the environment, and complete the tables.

When completing the Environmental Risks Forms, consider each of the following:

• normal activities at the winery
• abnormal activity, for example power loss, breakdown, blockage, leaks
• startup and shutdown
• maintenance and cleaning.

Next
Next procedure (Control Effects).

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