What operating principles do business sector specialists (BSS) use when providing assistance to a company or sector?
• The role of the BSS is to serve the entire business sector or industry in promoting business practices which reduce environmental impacts (e.g. waste generation). Our goal is to form partnerships with trade associations and provide proactive educational information on regulations. • On some occasions, the BSS would visit individual facilities under a partnership to provide information to the facility without other DNR staff present. A BSS would inform the facility of these operating principles. The BSS would not be at the facility to provide site or source specific compliance directives, nor would they perform any regulatory evaluations (inspections). • A BSS may accompany a DNR program’s inspector to a facility. The presence of a BSS will not influence the outcome of the inspection. Field personnel will use their standard enforcement procedures as apparent violations are discovered. A BSS may be asked to provide input on pollution prevention, waste minimization alternatives or cross
