Results from the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi's Outreach Campaign for the Concrete Products Manufacturing Sector

摘要

The concrete manufacturing sector is a major environmental concern in Abu Dhabi Emirate due to the large number of facilities in this sector and because of the sector's PM contribution in an already dusty environment. EAD decided to focus on reducing this sector's environmental footprint and improving compliance through a combination of outreach (Eltezam Campaign) and inspections and enforcement. The Eltezam Compliance program specifically seeks to improve compliance through three steps. First, EAD provides facilities with information about environmental requirements and best management practices at a kick-off meeting through presentations, brochures, and the presence of EAD's staff to respond to questions. Second, after the facilities have had time to review and improve their operations based on the information learned and distributed at the kickoff workshop, EAD conducts inspections at each facility to assess compliance and identify potential violations. Third, if significant violations are found after the initial inspection, EAD works with facilities to address the identified violations and conducts follow-up inspections and enforcement actions, as necessary, to bring the affected facilities into compliance. The campaign will be ongoing through 2014, but initial outreach has been successful. Some compliance issues have been identified, but EAD is taking active steps to work with facilities and improve the environmental performance of the concrete manufacturing sector. EAD intends to learn from this experience and repeat the program with other sectors in the future.