Environmental Knowledge Management - Recent Advances and Issues in Environmental Science - page 51

Figure 1. Steel production flow chart.
For example, engineers who are responsible for air pollution prevention must:
• Read the air pollution prevention policy;
• Undergo capability building and training programs for 1 month;
• Obtain related certification and become a professional in air pollution preven-
tion management;
• Fully understanding of the concept of EM and apply it to air pollution preven-
tion and control.
The EPD usually convenes brainstorming meetings to obtain useful environmen-
tal information, knowledge and suggestions. For instance, the EPD can communicate
directly with the different departments, subsidiaries and affi liates of CSC during the
weekly meeting to obtain information valuable for decision-making and the EM strat-
egy. Due to this continuous brainstorming, engineers in the EPD are able to take up
new challenges upon new EKC in order to create new technologies to reduce pollution
and apply them to new tasks.
Environmental engineers will also search for suggestions and solutions through
communities when they encounter thorny environmental problems. Therefore, pro-
fessional environmental knowledge can be circulated freely through the systematic
knowledge communities and the e-learning systems that were built up by the profes-
sional senior engineers.
Environmental Knowledge Accumulation
Wu, Engineer in the Labor Safety and Health Section, Industry Safety and EPD, usu-
ally searches for the necessary information or experts experience from various data-
bases, communities and environmental knowledge bases while facing a difficult prob-
lem or a case similar to one that has occurred before. The environmental knowledge