Cpgp day01-session 4 - getting started cp

1. Getting Started CP
Assessment
Samantha Kumarasena
Deputy Director
National Cleaner Production Centre, Sri Lanka

2. Cleaner Production
Assessments
 Comprehensive CP Assessments
 Walkthrough (Quick scan) CP
Assessments

3. Cleaner Production
Assessment
 Start : 1. Getting started
 Analyze : 2. Analyze process steps
3. Generate CP opportunities
 Improve : 4. Select CP opportunities
5. Implement CP solutions
 Integrate : 6. Sustain CP solutions

4. Getting Started
 1st Call!
 Understand the Organization
 Top management Commitment
 Opening meeting
 Awareness for all
 CP Team
 Training for CP Team
 Initial walkthrough
 Audit focus
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Reasons for 1st Call
 CP demo projects
 Industry support projects from different
agencies
 Trainee CP Projects
 Directed by
Government/Environmental Authority
 To promote CP

6. FAQs
 What is CP?
 What is NCPC? (bfz/SMEDA)
 Who is going to bear the cost of this?
 What benefits do we have?
 Have you done this elsewhere in the
same sector?

7. F (U) AQs
 (Are those consultants working people
in the same sector?)
 (Are they from Government
Authority?)
 (Will they maintain confidentiality of
information?)

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Organizations are
different !

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‘Don’t forget, we have to make money, too’
‘We have always done it like this –
why change now ?’
‘We are not ready for this idea yet’
Organizations are different !
Top management is not aware of CP !
‘It is too late to change’

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‘We are too big/too small for this’
‘Let somebody else try this first’
‘This does not tie in with our long –term plans’
‘We have already overspent/Used up this year’s budget’
It sounds good in theory, but in practice it is
another story
‘I know that it won’t work’
Organizations are different !
Top management has no any thrust
or confidence on CP !

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‘Talk to such & such, that is his task’
‘Let’s discuss this later’
‘Let’s think about the details later’
Organizations are different !
Simply avoiding !
We don’t have enough employees’
‘We don’t have right people’

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The top management is willing, but there are
time & resource constraints !
The top management is willing & committed but,
No cooperation from workers !
The workers are willing & committed but,
No cooperation from the top management !
Neither top management nor workers are willing
or committed !
Organizations are different !

13. General opposition
 Resistance against any kind of change
 Only laws and regulations are
considered as guild lines
 Believes that his facility is the best -
No scope for optimization
 Environmental issues are
underestimated
 Involving in ‘firefighting’
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14. Organizational obstacles
 Authority & responsibility are unclear
 Rigid hierarchy
 Lack of funds
 Badly set priorities
 ‘Intangible’ assets are simply ignored!
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15. CP success is attributed by,
 Management commitment
 Employees’ involvement
 Organized approach
 Flexibility & being open minded
 Creativity & Innovativeness
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16. Wining Management
Commitment
 Talking in financial terms
 Closely affected environmental
issues
 Compliance requirements of buyers
 Environmental regulations in
existence e.g. Waste Discharge fee
Scheme (WDF)
 Success stories of similar industries
 Visit to the plants practicing CP
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17. To win Co-operation,
 Disseminate information on project
goals as early as possible
 Importance of their work is
appreciated
 Need to tell why, what & when
 Delegating responsibility to the team
 Positive examples by the
management
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18. First CP Team meeting
 Opening remarks by the management
 Sensitize about environmental issues
 Deliver the concept of CP
 Talk about financial /resource savings
 Influence & Catalyze
 Try to recognize the level of motivation
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19. CP Team
 Leader
 Size of the team
 X- sectional representation
 Suggested team members
- Work/production manager
- Maintenance manager
- Finance/ purchase/sales
personnel

20. Awareness for all employees
 Environmental sensitization
 What is Cleaner Production?
 What are benefits for you & your
organizations?
 How can you contribute for this
activity?
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21. Training for the CP Team
 Concept of CP
 CP Assessment Methodology (as
modules if necessary)
 Case studies
 Success stories
 Plant visits
 Attitude change
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22. Initial walkthrough Assessment
 CP facilitator
 Person from organization to guide through
the plant
 Section heads to explain their processes
 Follow the production flow/material path
 Check list
 Questions & small interviews
 Inquiries, fact finding
 Observations
 Short interview with CEO
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23. Initial walkthrough Assessment
 Understand policies, processes &
practices
 Organizations future plans
 Try to recognize CP potential
- Quantity & ‘Quality’ of inputs
- Output & wastes
- level of resource efficiency
- Risks to human & environment
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24. Select assessment focus
 Economic considerations – monetary
losses with wastes
 Environmental considerations –
volume & composition of wastes
 Technical consideration –
improvement potential

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Myths in CP
• CP is good but not in our local environment
• CP is good for large organizations
• CP can be applied only in factories
• CP options are costly
• Our employees are not creative/innovative
• CP needs external experts

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 Defining CP policy
 Defining Environmental policy
 Incorporating CP into organizational
policies
CP/Environment Policy

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CP/Environment Policy
 Appropriate to the nature & scale of
operations
 Provides framework for setting Objectives
& targets
 Commitment to continual improvement
 Commitment to Prevention of Pollution
 Commitment to comply with applicable
regulations
 Document & communicate to all
employees
 Available to the public

28. List Process Steps
 Specify all processes, including
production, material handling and
storage, utilities etc.
 Special attention to occasional
processes (cleaning etc.)
 Identify - most important - inputs and
outputs, including materials, energy,
water, wastes and emissions

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Go ahead!