 CREATING YOUR
CLEAN AIR PROGRAM
Commiting to Clean Air
• Case Studies
• Creating and Implementing
Your Clean Air Program
Commiting to Clean Air
Before you create your very own Clean Air Program, you have to make a commitment . By making a commitment, you are making a promise to fully carry out the actions necessary to ensure that your Clean Air Program is a success. In addition, you are starting the process of developing the support and dedication from people within your organization to participate in reducing emissions. The size or type of organization does not make a difference; the most important element of a successful Clean Air Program is commitment.
Institute a Clean Air Policy
A Clean Air Policy provides the groundwork for setting performance goals and integrating clean air management into the organization's culture and operations
A Clean Air Policy should include the following
Stated objective
Establishment of accountability
Ensure continuous improvement
Promotion of goals
A Clean Air Policy will ensure senior management support and support among the staff. It also communicates the organization's commitment to the Port, customers, tenants and business partners, stakeholders and the community.
Appoint a Clean Air Director
The Clean Air Director would be responsible for setting goals, tracking progress and promoting the Clean Air Program. An existing staff member can serve in this role. This individual would be someone that is capable of effectively overseeing the creation, management and implementation of a port clean air program.
Establish a Clean Air Team
The Clean Air Team executes clean air management strategies depending on the maritime operation, while ensuring integration of best practices.
The Clean Air Team monitors and tracks progress. Regular reporting is made to the Clean Air Director on program progress.
Clean Air Team members may include staff involved in engineering, operations and maintenance, building/facilities management, environmental health and safety, construction management, and contractors and suppliers.
Coordinate with Stakeholders and Regulatory Agencies
Developing your Clean Air Program with the support of your customers, tenants, business partners, stakeholders and regulatory agencies will ensure the Program's sustainability. In addition, involving your customers, tenants, business partners, stakeholders and regulators in the decision and goal-setting process brings in different perspectives that will give the Clean Air Program more diversity.
Case Studies
San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan
The Port of Los Angeles partnered with its sister port, the Port of Long Beach , and engaged the United States Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board and the South Coast Air Quality Management District in a partnership to develop the world's first multi-port, comprehensive port-related air management plan – the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan .
Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy
The ports of Seattle and Tacoma in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and the Vancouver Port Authority have been working closely with federal, state and local air agencies for years on successful voluntary collaborative approaches to reduce air emissions from maritime-related sources in the region. They are currently working on the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy to establish common performance goals and further reduce emissions to protect public health and the environment.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Clean Air Initiatives and Harbor Air Management Plan
The Port Commerce Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the Atlantic Northeast of the United States, along with its tenants, public agencies and private partners, collaborate on voluntary efforts to field test new off road technologies and develop clean equipment prototypes. Collaborative efforts are conducted under the Department's participation with the Regional Air Team on the Harbor Air Management Plan, the Northeast Diesel Collaborative and through U.S. EPA's Clean Ports Program.
Rijnmond Regional Air Quality Action Program
ROM Rijnmond Executive Council commissioned the DCMR Rijnmond Environmental Agency to draw up a regional plan through the Top Management Steering Committee on Air, which comprise of leaders from Ministries of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment; Transport, Public Works and Water Management; Economic Affairs; Agriculture; Nature and Food Quality; the Province of Zuid-Holland, the city of Rotterdam, Rotterdam Metropolitan Region; and Rotterdam Port Authority. The Rijnmond Regional Air Quality Action Program draws up existing air quality programs and creates a great uniformity of air quality control measures.
Creating and Implementing Your Clean Air Program
Use the ‘Plan, Do, Check, and Act' (PDCA) cycle as a tool to create and implement your Clean Air Plan. The PDCA cycle will guide you through the process to develop a program that strives to achieve continual improvement. For Ports which have or are implementing an Environmental Management System (EMS), this approach can be used to make the Clean Air Plan compatible with the Port's overall environmental management program.
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