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Training Your Personnel: Level 4 |
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Appendix 7.15 |
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Grey Skies Manufacturing Limited - Register of Significant Environmental Effects |
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Aspect |
Sub-Aspect |
Impact on Environment |
Event Probability (1 to 3) |
Scale of Impact (-3 to +3) |
Significance Index |
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Processes |
New Coating Process |
Operation of curing oven |
Waste heat lost to local atmosphere |
3 |
1 |
3 |
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Storage of large quantities of paint |
Solvent emissions (see above) |
3 |
2 |
6 |
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Waste containers, solid paint waste, waste sludge, used gunwash and oil / water condensate
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Special waste |
3 |
1 |
3 |
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Scrap metal components |
Spill / leak wastage disposed as special waste |
- |
- |
- |
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Extraction System |
Removal of odours and fumes from plating shops |
Beneficial impact on health of employees |
- |
- |
- |
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Effluent Treatment Plant |
Consumption of hazardous chemicals to dose waste streams from plating tanks |
Indirect impacts on environment associated with production and transport of hazardous chemicals |
- |
- |
- |
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Trade effluent discharged to foul sewer |
3 |
-1 |
-3 |
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Settlement tank |
Filter cake disposed of to landfill as special waste |
3 |
1 |
3 |
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Discharge of untreated effluent in event of breakdown
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Damage to sewer
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2 |
2 |
4 |
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Testing |
Discharge of test solutions into drainage system
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May act as respiratory poisons in flora and fauna : |
3 |
2 |
6 |
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Plated Components |
Improved useful life of components |
Reduces impact on environment |
3 |
-1 |
-3 |
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Scrap components (contaminated waste) |
Special waste |
3 |
1 |
3 |