Why go through the effort of developing and tracking a unified environmental performance measure for different facilities and why compare across facilities? This eBook helps you develop a system for benchmarking environmental performance.This eBook includes:
- Introduction: why you should go through the effort of developing and tracking environmental performance
- Develop your ratings: comparing apples to apples
- Start weighting: assign weights based on your company’s priorities
- Establish weighting factors: identify common weight values within the compliance component
- Define success for each program area: a compliance component score depends on tasks and emissions limits
- Calculate performance across all media
- Your environmental score: putting it all together
Environmental performance is the most complete environmental metric for corporate and facility managers. The benefits of measuring environmental performance include:
- Demonstrating a facility’s commitment to the environment
- Understanding how business units compare
- Improved insurance premium management
- Regulatory leverage
- Motivating and incentivizing employees
- Contributing to a larger EHS scorecard
Meanwhile, quantifying environmental performance at an industrial facility can involve numerous criteria. Potential input
parameters to consider include:
parameters to consider include:
- Environmental discharges and emissions
- Toxicity of pollutants
- Sensitivity of nearby receptors
- Area or size of the facility
- Sustainability metrics
- Facility complexity
- Cost