Incidents

Being able to effectively deal with a pollution incident out on site is just as important as dealing with a spill at your facility or business premises. It is vital.

At SpillShop, our team is dedicated to supplying quality spill response and liquid containment products to our customers across the Asia-Pacific region, helping businesses protect the environment from spills and pollution incidents. Effective environmental management involves becoming aware of how your business operations affect the surrounding environment, and making changes to reduce its impact on the natural world. Not only will this make your business more sustainable, but can increase your profitability, improve your productivity, and enhance your professional reputation.

This month, we discuss six ways to make your business more environmentally sustainable:

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Our first tip for making your business more environmentally sustainable is working to reduce your carbon footprint, which refers to the total greenhouse gas emissions caused by your facility. This can be achieved in many ways, from giving up paper and using more recycled products to ensuring electronics

Spills and other pollution incidents can have far reaching and costly consequences for companies without the proper equipment and an emergency response plan in place. At SpillShop, we are dedicated to providing our customers with high quality spill response and liquid containment equipment throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. If your facility produces, stores, transports, or disposes of hazardous chemicals and liquids, then it is essential that you remain in compliance with the relevant regulations and safety procedures to protect your staff, the environment, and surrounding communities.

Learn how to prepare your facility for effective spill response in 2019 with this checklist:

• Create and implement an effective spill response management plan

In accordance with the POEO Act, all licensees of facilities involved with hazardous chemicals or waste materials must have an emergency response plan in place. This plan must be located on the premises in written form, and include details

A pollution incident is a circumstance where there is a leak or spill of a liquid or material stored in a facility, including accidental and deliberate disposal or release around a facility. Any kind of pollution liquid, gas, or solid can be harmful to the environment and our health. If you have a business which stores liquid and/or produces waste, it is important to know how to take care of them as well as what to do in the case of an emergency. If an incident occurs, there are two steps which must be taken.

The first step is to implement your pollution incident response management plan. The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (EPA), the main statutory of environmental regulation in NSW has created a guideline to help individuals and companies prepare a management plan for pollution incident response.

This guideline covers the formation of a management plan, which should include description and likelihood of site hazards, have an inventory of pollutants and safety equipment