Why Should Your Melt Shop Have An Environmental Coordinator?

摘要

Designating an environmental coordinator within the melt shop has produced positive results, allowing the melt shop to stay in compliance (from upset reporting to facility audits), increase employee environmental awareness through development and implementation of training, and implement trials on new technologies. The coordinator's first hand experience with new technologies, prior to implementing a full-scale conversion, allows Chaparral to make both cost effective and environmentally responsible decisions. Chaparral realizes that they have to accept the responsibility for the environmental aspects of the entire process, including the generation and handling of co-products and wastes. The coordinator is intricate in Chaparral's goal to seek new solutions to old problems, and to foster an environment where upstream environmental compliance is the focus. Chaparral realizes that if environmental challenges can be viewed as opportunities, the steel industry can make a positive impact on the environment and the quality of life.