Higg FEM 3.0 score Analysis for Self Assessment

EMS

1.1_Are one or more employees at your facility responsible for coordinating your facility’s environmental management activities?

.2_Does your facility have a company environmental management strategy that guides long-term decision-making on environmental management?

1.3_Has your facility identified the significant environmental impacts associated with current operations within the factory premises?

1.4_Does your site have a program or system in place to review and monitor environmental permit status and renewal (where appropriate) and ensure compliance?

1.5_Does your facility maintain a documented system to identify, monitor and periodically verify all laws, regulations, standards, codes and other legislative and regulatory requirements for your significant environmental impacts?

1.6_Does your facility have a process and schedule to maintain all equipment?

2.1_Does your facility review the environmental management strategy with your facility’s managers each calendar year?

2.2_Do employees at your facility responsible for environmental management have the technical competence required to do their job?

3.1_Does your facility promote awareness of the environmental strategy to employees?

3.2_Does your facility monitor, evaluate, and/or engage with your subcontractors on their environmental performance using the Higg Index?

3.3_Does your facility engage in environmental improvement in your local context?

3.4_Does your facility monitor, evaluate, and/or engage with your upstream suppliers using the Higg Index?

Energy

1.1_Select all sources of energy for your facility

2.1_Has your facility set baselines for energy use?

 2.2_Does your facility know what facility processes or operations use the most energy?

2.3_Has your facility set targets for improving energy use or GHG emissions?

2.4_Does your facility have an implementation plan to improve energy use and/or GHG

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2.5_Has your facility improved energy consumption compared with its baseline?

Waste

1.1_Which non-hazardous waste streams does your site produce? Select all that apply:

1.2_Which hazardous waste streams does your site produce? Select all that apply:

1.3 Does your facility segregate all waste streams into non-hazardous and hazardous waste, and store them separately?

1.4_Does your facility have well-marked, designated hazardous waste storage areas?

1.5_Does your facility have well-marked, designated non-hazardous waste storage areas?

1.6_Does your facility forbid open burning and dumping on-site?

1.7_Does your site provide training to all employees whose work involves hazardous waste handling (such as maintenance and custodial staff)?

2.1_Has your facility set a baseline for solid waste?

2.2_Did you set a baseline for waste disposal methods for your facility’s overall waste?

2.3_Does your facility set formal targets to reduce waste quantity?

2.4_Did you set a target for improving waste disposal methods for your facility’s overall waste?

2.5_Does your facility have an implementation plan to reduce waste quantity or improve type of treatment?

2.6_Has your facility reduced waste quantity or improve type of treatment, compared with the established baseline?

2.7 Has your facility improved waste disposal methods for overall waste in 2017, compared with the baseline?

3.1 Does your facility validate the final disposal and treatment of all hazardous wastes?

3.2 Has your factory diverted at least 90 percent of all discarded materials from landfills, incinerators and the environment?

3.3 Does your facility upcycle some of its waste or insert its waste into a circular economy system?

Wastewater

1.1 Does your facility track its industrial wastewater volume?

1.2 Does your facility track its domestic wastewater volume?

1.3 Does your facility track its combined (industrial and domestic) wastewater volume?

1.4 Please indicate which wastewater guideline(s) you are reporting against

1.5 Do you have the name and contact information of the offsite wastewater treatment plant?

1.6 Does your facility have a back-up plan if there is an emergency situation related to wastewater?

1.7 Is hazardous sludge (chemical / industrial) disposed of properly?

1.8 sludgedisposal_Is non-hazardous sludge (domestic only) disposed of properly?

1.9 Does your facility treat septic wastewater before it is discharged?

Water

1.1  Select all water sources used by your facility

2.1  Has your facility set baselines for water use?

2.2 Does your facility know what facility processes or operations use the most water?

2.3 Has your facility set targets for reducing water use?

2.4 Does your facility have an implementation plan to improve water use?

2.5  Has your facility reduced water withdrawal, compared with your baseline?

3.1  Has your facility implemented a water balance or another analysis to evaluate the traceability of water intake vs. usage (i.e. which processes) and output (i.e. to wastewater treatment plant)?

Air

1.1 Select all sources of air emissions relevant to your facility’s operations that are not regulated by a permit, or for which your facility is not in compliance with its permit

1.2 Select all sources of air emissions that result from production processes

1.3 Did your facility add additional refrigerants to any existing equipment in 2017?

1.4 Does your facility have control devices or abatement processes for on-site emissions to air? If yes, select all sources of emissions that have abatement processes.

1.5 Does your facility have control devices or abatement processes for indoor air quality issues from production processes? If yes, select all sources of air quality issues that have abatement processes.

2.1 Has your facility gone beyond permit requirements to achieve a higher level of air performance in Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Sulfur Oxides (SOx), and Particulate Matter (PM)?

3.1 Do you have a process for implementing modernized equipment to reduce or eliminate air emissions and indoor air quality issues at your facility?

Chem

71.1_Does your facility keep an inventory of chemicals used and the suppliers of each chemical product?

1.2_Does your facility make Safety Data Sheets (SDS) available to employees for all chemicals used?

1.3_Does your facility train all employees who use chemicals on chemical hazards, risk, proper handling, and what to do in case of emergency or spill?

1.4_Does your facility have a chemical spill and emergency response plan that is practiced periodically?

1.5_Does your facility have appropriate and operable protective and safety equipment, as recommended by the Global Harmonization System compliant (or equivalent) Safety Data Sheet, in all areas where chemicals are stored and used?

1.6_Does your facility have chemical hazard signage and safe handling equipment in the areas of the facility where chemicals are used?

1.7_Does your facility select and purchase chemicals based on their hazards and MRSL / RSL requirements?

1.8_Does your facility have an environmental and occupational health and safety program specific to chemicals management?

1.9_Does your facility have well marked, designated chemical storage and temporary storage areas?

1.10_Does your facility train employees responsible for the chemical management system on Restricted Substance Lists (RSLs) and Manufacturing Restricted Substance Lists (MRSLs)?

1.11_Does your facility have a documented process to systematically identify, monitor and verify compliance with all product Restricted Substance Lists (RSLs)?

1.12_Does your facility have a documented process to systematically monitor, update and demonstrate compliance with Manufacturing Restricted Substance Lists (MRSLs)?

1.13_Can all of your production chemicals be traced from the manufacturing process back to chemical inventory?

2.1_Does your facility have an implementation plan to improve your chemicals management program?

2.2_Does your facility have an implementation plan to reduce the use of hazardous chemicals beyond chemicals specified by regulations and/or Restricted Substance Lists / Manufacturing Restricted Substance Lists?

2.3_Does your facility source already-approved or preferred chemicals from a positives list beyond chemicals specified by regulations and/or Restricted Substance Lists / Manufacturing Restricted Substance Lists?

3.1_Does your facility collaborate with brands and/or chemical suppliers to select chemicals for alternatives assessment?

3.2_Does your facility contribute a chemical analysis against human and environmental hazard criteria (e.g., persistent, bio-accumulative, and toxic) to this alternatives process?

3.3_Does your facility contribute an analysis of lifecycle impacts to this alternatives process

3.4_Can your manufacturing process chemicals be traced from product lot number back to chemical lot number?

3.5_Does your facility have a documented Quality Assurance (QA) Program that includes performance of chemicals?

3.6_Do your contractors/subcontractors source already-approved or preferred chemicals from a positives list to replace chemicals not already included in RSL/MRSL?

3.7_Does your facility have documented business goals, processes and actions showing commitment (e.g., equipment, process, choice of substitute chemicals) to new sustainable chemistry innovation?