>TCC/ACIT EHS Seminar

Information from a past seminar appears below. Click Tracks above for this year's presentations.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

7:30 - 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
	TRACK 4 EHS Management / Sustainability
	Leaders: Kristy Stewart Jack McVaugh
8:30 - 9:25	How your CIO can help deliver your sustainability goals Victoria Weller Business Analyst, EHS Management Information Systems Consultant RMT, Inc. Can you connect the dots between EHS, sustainability, and what's going on in your IT department? How can the IT department support a company's sustainability goals? IT solutions can deliver reductions in your carbon footprint, improve EHS performance, and help drive the organization toward their environmental, social and economic goals. Information on free and award-winning software will be included.
9:25 - 9:45	Break
9:45 - 10:40	Zero Waste to Landfill — The Next Step Ray Smiley Sr. Manager Environmental Compliance Goodyear Tire & Rubber Now that you have achieved Zero Waste to Landfills (ZWTL) — or if you haven't — what are the next steps you should be considering? You may find that in achieving ZWTL, your expenditures for waste disposal just went through the roof. What's more, you may have found that you have secured a non landfill option, but it's your only option. How do you address the cost of ZWTL? How do you develop lower cost options and back-up to your primary disposal facility? This session will share some of the obstacles and successes Goodyear Tire & Rubber has had in lowering cost and developing alternatives.
10:40 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:55	Sustainable Development How to Make it an Understandable and Achievable Facility Goal Karen Jenkins, CSP EHS Manager Weeks Island Facility Dow Advanced Materials How do you infuse Sustainability into your day-to-day operations? Learn how one company introduced the concept in a way that makes it meaningful to multi-levels in the organization. The focus of this presentation will begin with developing a better understanding of Sustainability, and journey into tying cost savings with environmental and resource savings. Once employees are motivated by seeing the difference their ideas are making today, the entire facility will soon see how small changes can lead to big savings in environmental resources, cost and overall efficiency.
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch: Rafael B. “Ralph” Marquez, Commissioner -- TCEQ (Retired), Environmental Strategies and Policy (ESP)
1:30 - 2:25	Sustainable Environmental Performance One Company's Story Marise Textor, P.E. Corporate Director - Regulatory Affairs Texas Petrochemicals This presentation tells the story of one company’s journey and progress over several years to manage its environmental performance in a sustainable manner. The story starts with a vision at the top of the company, includes investment in unique technology, and drives through changing front-line employees’ day-to-day behaviors. The results: A new and evolving company culture, relationships built on collaboration with stakeholders, and business benefits.
2:25 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 3:40	Sustainability Reporting Using the GRI Reporting Process to Drive Performance Lelio SaFreitas IMS Manager, Quality Assurance ABS Consulting Commitment and challenges on social issues, environmental performance and business accomplishments should all be part of a coherent sustainability report. You will learn how the reporting process helps organizations understand the challenges, risks and opportunities associated with operating and reporting on sustainability. We show how a company's strategy and business plan should be connected to the tenets of sustainability. We help you see where reporting data and information may have already been collected by your company. Topics include a balanced reporting methodology for nonfinancial reporting of social issues, environmental performance and business accomplishments, with a focus on the “triple bottom line."