Manufacturers have to deal with many Statutory Instrument.

TMI Europe's consultants are specialised in providing you with up-to-date information on the regulation concerning the following topics:

• Administrative document: classifion of facilities for environmental protection (ICPE)
  
• Waste analysis
  
• Internal operation plan

Many very different industries are part of the agrofood sector: knackery, piggery, dairy industry, convenience food industry, biscuit industry, etc...

Each activity is regulated by particular laws but the same environmental laws rule all of them. In fact, these industries have common hazards and nuisances regarding the environment and population. Each one must prevent these risks both during construction works and processing.

Regarding French legislation, industries that are subject to environmental pollution are ruled by the classified facilities regulation for environmental protection (I.C.P.E.), since the law dated from July, 1st 1976, which has often been modified.

Therefore, before starting or expanding a company, every firm must set up an administrative document to report their new activity so that it may be classified. The document must include:

• An environmental impact assessment
• An environmental safety assessment
• Specifications relative to staff hygiene and security in the plant, corresponding to the statutory instruments in force

Thanks to our expertise and regulation knowlegde, TMI Europe can assist your company with writing this request for authorisation and help you with administrative formulation.

If a company releases large amounts of waste, legislation requests the realisation of a study on how and where this waste is generated, on how this could be upgraded or recycled, and how can it be best eliminated.

TMI Europe can assist your company during the three following steps:

• Analysing the current situation
• Realising a technico-economical study on the alternatives for production, management and elimination of waste
• Choosing the best solution to treat the different types of waste

Thanks to our expertise in European projects, we are able to define an original and complete method to realise this type of study.

After having classified a factory's facilities regarding environmental hazards, the person in charge with the classification might also require from the company an internal operation plan. TMI Europe can assist your company with the writing of the necessary documents, that must contain the following chapters:

• The alert pattern, indicating the different situations of an alert actuation and treatment
• Evaluation of risks, according to hazard types, location, etc...
• Inventory of the available means of intervention and prevention
• Organisation of the assistance (teams constitution, operations ranking, duty assignement etc...)
• Information plan (employees, administration etc...)
• Training & exercises

TMI Europe has the skills and know-how necessary to implement this kind of tool.

We usually set up this procedure in milling industry and grain storage, as well as in the dairy industry.