Environmental Officer
The environmental officer plays a central role in corporate environmental protection and ensures that all these requirements are met. As an external environmental officer, we take care of all operational environmental protection tasks such as waste, pollution control and hazardous incidents, water protection, hazardous incidents, soil protection and hazardous goods.
Expert for operational environmental protection
The goals
The environmental officer plays a central role in corporate environmental protection. As part of the precautionary principle in a company, he or she assumes the important function of operational self-monitoring and takes care of all operational environmental protection tasks such as immission control, water protection, waste, hazardous substances and fire protection.
The environmental officer monitors compliance with legal and official regulations within the company or in an industrial plant, for example in environmental law and in approval procedures, and thus supplements the official external monitoring. In short, the environmental officer is responsible for ensuring that all company environmental protection requirements are met.
This is also important with regard to further developments in climate protection and sustainability and shows customers, partners and other stakeholders that companies take their obligations towards the environment seriously and are proactively addressing them - far beyond the legal requirements. The environmental officer stands for avoiding and eliminating risks to people or the environment. In this way, they make a significant contribution to value creation in terms of sustainability.
Environmental officers ensure compliance with specified standards & regulations
The task
Environmental officers are appointed by the management or the plant operator. Their tasks include monitoring compliance with specified standards and regulations in regular and exceptional business and plant operations, documentation, advising the operator, developing and introducing improvements, monitoring and inspecting operating sites, informing and educating employees, reporting deficiencies and regular reporting. Plant officers are anchored in the organizational structure of a company as a so-called staff unit. They are part of the "corporate conscience" and should be able to act independently of economic interests.
The performance
The prerequisite for the fulfillment of his tasks is specific specialist knowledge and the proven qualification of the company representative for his area of responsibility. The necessity of appointing an environmental officer and their tasks, rights and duties are determined either by a law, a regulation or (in individual cases) an official order. In most cases, the type and scope of the facilities operated determine which and, if applicable, how many environmental officers a company must appoint. Environmental officers can be appointed both internally and externally. An external environmental officer is often appointed in this context, especially if the company does not have sufficient internal specialist personnel available. It is therefore not absolutely necessary to train and maintain an employee of the company for this position.
We assume the position of all company representatives
The activities
As a company specializing in environmental protection, we cover the position of all company officers through our "Environmental Officers" competence team. These include company officers for waste, immission control, hazardous goods and water protection, waste officers, hazardous incident officers, immission control officers and water protection officers. These activities of the officer(s) result from numerous legal regulations such as the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG), the Recycling Management Act (KrWG) and the Water Resources Act (WHG). The appointment of one or more immission control officers is even prescribed by law in § 53 BImSchG.
The procedure
In this way, we support and advise companies in all environmental matters and assist them in complying with legal standards and approval requirements, reporting and dealing with authorities and suppliers. We also support companies in the planning stage of new projects by accompanying the approval process, for example in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG), and by identifying and explaining legal requirements, formulating corresponding applications and coordinating them with the authorities. In this way, we ensure legally compliant operation in accordance with the various legal requirements.
External environmental officers as a relief for companies
Expertise
It goes without saying that we meet all the requirements of the law. Company environmental officers must have the appropriate expertise and reliability for their function. Reliability means that the officer can properly perform the relevant tasks based on his or her personality, behavior and skills. Our experts in the field of environmental officers have extensive practical and theoretical skills that qualify them to take on this responsible position.
The advantages
Our services in the area of environmental officers range from project-oriented work on projects to continuous support as part of the obligation to appoint company officers. The target group of our services are companies that would like to make use of extensive expertise as required without being able or willing to fall back on their own resources. This relieves the burden on companies, which is an attractive alternative to having their own staff, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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