Prevention of soil contamination
Soil contamination is serious problem for the manufacturing unit, that having a hazardous material are used in the process, contamination due to hazardous material is directly effects on the environment that government and standard requirements guidelines are needs to follows. Chemical reagents / hazardous material execute significant contamination of land.
Manufacturing unit has to take necessary actions for the soil contamination, now industry increasing environmental awareness so mostly units are follows the guidelines of the government laws and international standards like ISO 14001 & takes a necessary actions for prevention of soil contamination.
Manufacturing units having a various processes that use the oil, diesel, grease, chemicals and powers shall be evacuated until there is no visible sign of contamination, a immediate soil remediation area for treatment.
For the prevention of soil contamination company is prepared the control plan that helps to peoples to identify environment objectives and targets that need to achieve which is need to minimize as possible. For the controls on the soil contamination some serious steps required by company, company has to take actions to eliminate or minimize contamination, here some steps to possible controls are below:
- Identification of the parameters like fuel wood, Sludge, used oil etc..
- Permissible limits is not a target its permission given by the government to not cross the limit, company should control as possible to reduce use of the material can contaminate the land.
- Testing is one of the most important controls that timely testing of the land is very important given result of the current condition and its also required for the government laws, government is very serious about the environment so company should much take care about it.
- Define the frequency of the testing, reviews of the used of significant natural resources.
- Company should assign responsible to company’s employee for the monitoring and controlling on the significant natural resources.
- Maintain records of the soil contamination, analysis records and environmental control plan for the improvement in the action plan at the level of the significant achievement.
How to prevention of soil contamination?
Management has to takes some serious actions to prevent contamination, mostly company can engineering change to minimize contamination, awareness of the peoples that follows rules of the storage, move and handle hazardous material which by contamination is possible, there also possible to change in facilities to eliminate contamination. Prevention of the soil contamination is possible by change of facility design; change and improvement to eliminate spillage on the floor that soil remediates actions are as below:
- Spilled material on remediation area in layers at the floor to eliminate possibility of the contaminated
- Housekeeping is important part that helps to minimize risk of the soil contamination, immediate actions & frequency of the works management practices provides solutions to maintain cleaning.
- Environment technician shall inspection soil remediation area as per frequency defined; there also important to internal qualified peoples are inspecting the floor and areas to minimize contamination.
- Find substitute technique / material change / process change there are also some ways to possible minimize soil contamination.
Audit for Prevention of soil contamination
Prevention of soil contamination audit is conduct along with environment audit, this is the part of the environmental issues & all the areas, process and records are conduct for the audit. To identify the separate preventive actions & audit / inspection by the conducting some document like a checklist that helps to separate audit of the prevention of soil contamination, here as below given example for the prevention of soil contamination checklist format:
- Is there appropriate working area for the processing the manufacturing activities are properly restricted, properly controlled?
- Whether all the processes, sub activities of access & controlled areas has documented procedures?
- Is there all surfaces of the remediation area & its surface, utensils, equipment, machinery & fittings are properly cleaned? Whether frequency is defined?
- Is there list of the material & chemicals are handled? Chemical reagents are separately indicated? Are there effluent materials storage are in remediation area?
- Are systems in place to control contamination of product from foreign materials?
- Is there staff is aware of the processing, handling and used of the material / chemicals which is in hazardous categories that in remediation area?
- Are there line clearance protocols in place to avoid soil contamination?
All above points are mentioned for the reference to used in the company weekly, monthly inspection checklist, this points are also helps to peoples where working in the area to easy to instruct.
———————————————————————-
Download Prevention of Soil Contamination checklist
———————————————————————-