Panel EC-7 Environmental Management
Sustainability and environmental management is the present cutting edge in the marine industry.
The initial mission of the panel will be to collect and distribute information about environmental management within the marine industry and to connect NAME and other SNAME members with the wider environmental management issues in the entire marine industry.
At present panel EC-7 has a project underway: the EC-7 survey. This is a worldwide survey monkey survey that investigates attitudes with regard to vessel pollution both within and outside the maritime community.
To take the survey click this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KR8LF8Q
The survey has run for a year and the report on the first year's results has been published.
The panel's preliminary
research has found that while environmental management has penetrated
into today's ship operations, the underlying training and knowledge for
environmental management is limited.
EC-7's next effort will deal with a best practices analysis for environmental compliance, and expects to publish a report on this by the end of summer 2012.
Panel EC-7 is looking for additional panel members and depending on the number and interest of members will select and perform additional technical, management and operational evaluations of the many environmental issues that impact ship design, construction and operation and provide optimized solution paths using scientific and engineering methods often in cooperation with other SNAME T&R panels.
In this regard, the following initiatives are proposed for further discussion:
Curriculum Review
While environmental management is taking center stage in the marine industry, today's naval architectural and marine engineering college curricula only pay limited attention to these concepts. The panel will contact educational institutions and perform a review of their practices and assist institutions in developing a minimal standard for environmental management education
Design Review
Panel members will provide NAME students with design feedback on the environmental management aspects of their student design projects.
SNAME Text review
The panel will review the relevant sections of SNAME's classic texts with regard to environmental management aspects and provide comments and updates for subsequent versions of those texts.
Environmental management and its core goals of sustainability and environmental stewardship are central to engineering ethics and this panel's goal is to advance these concepts to the highest level and at the greatest possible speed within the profession.
Contact panel chairman Hendrik van Hemmen if you would like to join the panel.
Last updated December 12, 2011