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EVT472 Analysis Past Year Questions
EVT472 Analysis Past Year Questions
EVT472 Analysis Past Year Questions
Definition
i. Standardization (2011)
A:
Process of developing and implementing technical standards
Help to maximize compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability or quality
Facilitate to breaking down the technical barriers to trade (TBT)
v. Records (2011)
A:
document stating results achieved or providing evidence of activities
performed
Q: Explain how EMS can assist organization to reduce env. impact and increase
operating efficiency (2014)
A:
a) Reduced raw material/resource use
b) Reduced energy consumption
c) Improved process efficiency
d) Reduced waste generation and disposal costs
e) Utilization of recoverable resources
Chapter 2 The development of EMS
Q: Event influence to the birth of international EMS and its relation with formation of
SAGE (2014) (2015) (2016)
A:
a) 1986 the general agreement on tariff and trade negotiation in Uruguay
- To promote common approach to environment management
- To enhance an organizations ability to attain and measure improvement in
environmental performance
b) 1992 United Nation conference on environment and development in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
- To facilitate and remove technical barrier to trade
Chapter 3 ISO 14000 series
Q: Explain the benefit / purpose of EPE standard (ISO14031) and LCA analysis
(ISO14041) (2015) (2016)
A:
EPE (ISO14031) LCA (ISO14041)
Purpose provides guidance on how an provide tool for identifying and
organization can evaluate its evaluating the environmental
environmental performance aspects of products and services
from the cradle to the grave
(from the extraction of resource inputs to the
eventual disposal of the product or its waste)
Q: identify 14000 series used as product oriented support tools (2014) (2015)
A:
a) Environmental labelling
b) Life cycle assessment
c) Environmental aspects in product design and development
Chapter 4 Requirement ISO 14001
Q: Factor need to be considered and advantages when using employees for internal
audit (2012)
A:
Factor to be considered
a) Integrity and impartiality
b) Knowledge, skill and technical experience about the activities to be audited
c) independent from the operating managers of the function being audited
d) free from bias and conflict of interest
Advantages
a) Reduced cost to employ external auditor
b) More familiar with the business process as they are continuously employed in
the same concern and have access to much confidential information
c) maintains a group of highly skilled people available to cope with non-recurring
and exceptional jobs
d) provides an excellent training ground for future executives
Q: Justify why training and awareness should not be conducted as one-time activity
(2014)
A:
a) The employees come and go
b) Technology and process changes
c) Environmental requirement changes
Q: How EMS helps organization comply with mandatory and voluntary requirement
(2014) (2015)
A:
a) Support regulatory compliance when the standards are used to meet market
and regulatory needs
b) serve as the technical basis for environmental regulations
c) Demonstrate compliance with current and future statutory and regulatory
requirements
Q: Explain the characteristic how to measure operation and activity (2014)
A:
a) Direct Measurement
Measuring a critical quantity or quality
b) Indirect Measurement
Filling out of forms during the process indicating tasks were performed
correctly
Periodic observations of tasks to ensure that it is being properly conducted
Periodic interviews with personnel to ensure that they are aware of
requirements
Chapter 5 EMS Documentation
Importance
a) ensure staff are working from the most recent version of the document
b) ensure the use of approved procedures and processes
c) ensure the staff that need the document actually receive (and are aware
of) the document
Q: typical audit activities that will be done during the audit process (2015)
A:
i. Initiating the audit (initiating contact with the auditee)
ii. Conduct document review
iii. Preparing for the on-site audit activities
iv. Conducting on-site audit activities
v. Preparing, approving and distributing the audit report to auditee
vi. Completing the audit
vii. Conducting the audit follow-up