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Environmental Impact Identification (ENVID)

What is Environmental Impact Identification (ENVID)

Environmental Impact Identification (ENVID) identifies potential environmental problems, ensuring that they are addressed from a planned development/scope and acceptable practice measures to ensure that the event causes negligible damage to the environment throughout its generation.

Purpose of ENVID

  • To identify the potential environmental risks involved within the proposed scope.
  • Assessing environmental effects and their impacts within understanding the causes, consequences, and significance of environmental impacts.
  • To identify effective management & mitigation to eliminate/cut back environmental impacts.

Methodology

  • The ENVID guide words are consistently applied to each of the study nodes to identify hazards that have the potential to give rise to safety, health, or environmental consequences of concern.
  • The proposed prevention, control, and associated mitigation measures were explored for every hazard that can potentially grant rise to consequences of concern. Alternative measures were planned wherever the team thought that the proposed prevention, control, or mitigation measures didn’t seem to be enough to reduce the associated risks to as low as reasonably practicable levels.
  • The proposed project will be mentioned comprehensively during the ENVID Workshop with the following objectives:
    • Confirm or reject each entry as a possible environmental/occupational health issue.
    • Add environmental problems based on expert judgment and knowledge by the multi-disciplinary team of workshop attendants.
    • Discuss required/planned mitigation measures to reduce potential environmental impacts.
    • Agree on the significance (in terms of consequence and duration) of every residual impact (i.e. impact following the implementation of mitigation measures).
  • Following the workshops, ENVID reports will be ready. Every report can list the key environmental and occupational health impacts related to the activities during the implementation of the proposed project.
  • The known and assessed potential environmental impacts of the decommissioning project activities shall be graded based on the severity of risks.

Potential Environmental Risks and Significance

Risk assessment table illustrating potential environmental risks categorized by severity levels (Very High, High, Medium, Low) with descriptions of required control measures and the corresponding impact significance. Highlights include Very High and High risks deemed intolerable and significant, while Medium and Low risks indicate varying levels of management and control measures
Potential Environmental Risks and Significance

Study Approach

Flowchart illustrating the ENVID study methodology, starting with qualitative assessment and progressing through risk matrix analysis, discussions, defining consequences, identifying control measures, describing actions, implementing controls, and documenting in the ENVID register. Highlights key steps for risk evaluation, mitigation, and documentation in environmental risk management processes.
Envid Study Approach

The final report of ENVID lists all the potential impacts of the proposed scope/project on the environment and the risk mitigation measure will be given to control/eliminate/prevent the environmental risks associated with the identified risks.

Conclusion

The Environmental Impact Identification (ENVID) study underscores the critical need to identify, assess, and mitigate environmental impacts from industrial operations. Aligned with global standards like ISO 14001 and local regulations, it promotes sustainable practices through proactive environmental management tools, such as Environmental Management Plans (EMP). By integrating mitigation strategies, monitoring, and emergency response mechanisms, the ENVID process ensures projects are compliant, environmentally responsible, and socially acceptable. This structured approach supports sustainable industrial growth while fostering environmental preservation and community well-being throughout a project’s lifecycle.