Brasilien

Monitoring Reports

ENHESA monitors new developments in Environmental, Health & Safety regulations and policy. The monthly regulatory monitoring reports provide the customer with a monthly update of the latest relevant and applicable EHS regulatory and policy developments impacting its operations and products. They are issued in the third week of the month ENHESA has been monitoring developments in Brasilien since 1998-02-12
Latest developments reported as of 2013-05-15
2013-05-15 Companies to re-register with the Federal Technical Registry of Potentially Polluting Activities and Activities Using Natural Resources (CTF/APP)
2013-05-15 Mandatory third-party insurance for vehicles proposed
2013-05-15 Companies which own motor vehicles could be required to install certain devices in their fleet
2013-04-15 SÃO PAULO: Restrictions to the extension of facilities located in the Santos Lowland (Baixada Santista) adopted

Compliance Calendar

Compliance calendars provide the customer with an overview of the pending regulatory deadlines, as they have been identified per country in the monthly monitoring reports. They provide you with an indication of what you need to do by when, the regulatory citation, a link to the report with further details and a link to the underlying regulatory text. The compliance calendars are updated on a monthly basis. The Compliance Calendars are provided with the Monitoring Service. A selection of upcoming deadlines for operations in Brasilien
2013-06-06 Class II and III flammable and combustible installation risk analyses must be articulated with the Environmental Risk Prevention Plan (Plano de Análise de Riscos Ambientais - PPRA) for 60% of the installation by this date. Employers at Class I and III flammable and combustible installations must have implemented an Emergency Response Plan taking into account combustibles (in addition to flammables) for 60% of the installation by this date. At least three employees must be trained in the basic course set out in Annex II of NR-20 on flammable and combustible materials by this date for facilities with more than 10 workers. For facilities with over 100 workers, the minimum number of workers trained in the Basic Course on flammable materials by this date (total number varies by size of the facility, can be no less than 2, and must include at least 2 for every 20 tonnes of flammable gas or 84 cubic meters of flammable of combustible liquids). Facilities with capacity to store more than 20 liters of flammable or combustible liquid and/or 10,000 cubic meters of flammable gas (with a limit of 1,200 tonnes) must develop risk assessments and emergency plans in accordance with the requirements of NR-20.10 and 10.14 by this date.
2013-06-17 All new requirements pursuant to the 17 December 2010 revision to NR-12 Machinery and Equipment are effective as of this date.
2013-06-29 Potentially polluting activities (including industry) must pay the applicable environmental taxes no later than the last weekday of each quarter.

Country Profile

A management guide on how industrial operations are regulated.The Country Profile of Environmental, Health & Safety Regulations provides a description of the competent authorities, the legal and administrative structures, the permits required and a description of how EHS issues are regulated in that country. Divided in 12 standard chapters. Includes a list of legislation with hyperlinks to original texts or translated ones wherever available Latest Country Profile for this country is from 2013-02-01.

Regulatory Register

ENHESA EHS Regulatory Register was specifically designed to ensure conformity with the requirements of both ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. But more importantly, its purpose is to assist users to ensure full compliance with appropriate EHS requirements by developing and maintaining up to date a full registry of the applicable EHS laws and regulations of the countries in which the company operates, with an abstract of what it requires from the company. It is a dynamic tool that allows the user to tailor the register to his facility and to integrate it with the facility management system. Latest Regulatory Register for this country is from 2013-04-11.

Audit Protocol

The EHS Audit Protocols provide you with a tool to systematically review and analyse compliance with EHS regulatory requirements. Each Audit Protocol is composed of 10 thematic modules. The introduction to a module provides an overview of the applicable legislation, key compliance definitions, items to consider getting in advance or have the facility prepare and abbreviations used. The Rulebook details the regulatory compliance questions and for each question there is a guide note. The Audit Protocol also includes a Country Introduction and the list of EHS legislation with hyperlinks to the full text where available.

ScoreCards

The ScoreCard is an Excel spreadsheet with the compliance questions and citations from the Rulebook of the Audit Protocol. It comes with a simple scoring/reporting mechanism (more developed scoring mechanisms can also be developed). The ScoreCard is a tool that comes as a complement to the Audit Protocol. It allows you to track the issues still to be reviewed during the audit, summarizes the main findings and allows a score to be awarded to the facility.

Country EHS Legislation

The Country EHS legislation provides the customer with a list of relevant Environmental, Health & Safety legislation and regulations. The list identifies the title with the date of adoption and the date of the latest amendment. Where feasible, links have been added to copies of legislation where they are available in electronic format. The list is provided together with any of the above services. The following is an abstract of the list of EHS legislation. Latest legislation update for this country is from 2013-04-11.

Interesting Websites

All our web-based services come with an overview of EHS sites of interest by country and/or subject. They provide descriptions and links to the websites of the ministries and government departments in charge of Environmental, Health & Safety issues, official journal, and other sites of potential interest. The following is an overview of the competent Ministries.

Helpline

The Helpline service assists our customers with any EHS regulatory or policy issue that may arise.  It ensures that urgent issues are addressed promptly and makes the Enhesa expertise, knowledgebase and network available to ensure business continuity.  The service can also be used:

  • to provide copies of legislation,
  • to identify how chemicals are regulated and how to handle them,
  • to analyse machinery conformity requirements,
  • to review the permit situation of a waste operator,
  • to identify potential liabilities,
  • to obtain market intelligence, etc.