Client: Confidential
Location: Russia
Project: Environmental Audit of a Pulp and Paper Mill
Purpose: Providing the client with a professional independent opinion on the compliance of the enterprise's activities with the requirements of legislation and best practices in the field of environmental protection, on the significant environmental risks of the enterprise, as well as recommendations for managing the identified non-conformities and risks
Approach:
ENSOR specialists completed the following tasks:
Result:
Based on the audit results, a report and presentation were prepared, including:
Location: Russia
Project: Environmental Audit of a Pulp and Paper Mill
Purpose: Providing the client with a professional independent opinion on the compliance of the enterprise's activities with the requirements of legislation and best practices in the field of environmental protection, on the significant environmental risks of the enterprise, as well as recommendations for managing the identified non-conformities and risks
Approach:
ENSOR specialists completed the following tasks:
- Compliance assessment of the facility's activities and internal documentation with the requirements of the national environmental legislation
- Assessment of the level of the best available techniques application at the facility aimed at reducing the negative impact on the environment, including a comparative analysis with other enterprises in the pulp and paper industry based on the data from open sources
- Assessment of the facility's readiness to emergency response in case of accidents associated with environmental damage
- Assessment of the facility’s management system effectiveness and its compliance with the best practices
- Analysis of the facility's investment plans for inclusion of measures aimed at ensuring compliance with the environmental legal requirements and minimization of environmental risks
- Identification and analysis of the most critical environmental risks (including quantitative assessment and ranking of risks based on the probability of occurrence and significance of consequences)
- Development of measures to eliminate non-compliances and eliminate or reduce environmental risks (possible ways to reduce the probability of risk occurrence, as well as ways to minimize consequences, if a risk occurs)
- Preparation of a report and presentation based on the audit results
Result:
Based on the audit results, a report and presentation were prepared, including:
- description of the current situation and conclusions on the level of compliance of the facility's environmental activities with legislative requirements and best practices
- description of the identified non-compliances and possible financial and administrative consequences
- description and quantitative assessment of key environmental risks
- recommendations for eliminating the identified non-compliances and minimizing environmental risks
- cartographic materials