Identification and assessment of the importance of environmental aspects at the enterprises of JSC "Russian railways"

Sytnikova Anastasia Dmitrievna, Borovkov Yuri Nikolaevich

The article discusses a general identification algorithm and assessment of the importance of environmental aspects at railway transport enterprises. The negative and favorable impacts inherent in an enterprise with mobile and stationary sources of negative environmental impact are identified, as well as measures to reduce these impacts. The article also discusses the general algorithm for maintaining the register "Environmental aspects of the object", provides criteria for assessing the significance of environmental aspects. The methodology given in the article can be used by railway transport enterprises in the development of an environmental management system (EPMS), and can also be used in solving similar problems in other fields of application (for example, on other types of transport).

Keywords: railway transport, ecology, environmental management system, identification of environmental aspects, assessment of the significance of environmental aspects, environmental impact.