An impact is any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization's activities, products, or services, such as landfill depletion, ecological damage, air pollution, habitat alteration, etc. Validate a list of impacts on the Potential Environmental Impacts without Safeguards form and associate impacts with environmental aspects on the Entity Aspects form.
For each impact, equivalent entries in different languages can be defined. For example, a "Dust" impact in Spanish, "Polvo", and Dutch, "Stof", could be specified. When localization has been implemented, the Culture setting assigned to a user determines which value is displayed in field lists on Essential forms. Enter the corresponding impacts and associate each one with the appropriate language in the Language Dependent Potential Environmental Impact w/o Safeguards section.
To enter impacts
Click Data
Entry > Aspects and Impacts > Potential Environmental Impacts
w/o Safeguards in the Navigation
Tree.
The Potential Environmental Impact
w/o Safeguards list appears.
Click the New
button.
The Potential Environmental Impact
without Safeguards form is displayed.
Enter a Potential Environmental Impact.
Expand the Language Dependent Potential Environmental Impact w/o Safeguards section, when necessary, to add the impact in different languages. Otherwise, skip to step 8.
Click Add Language Value and select a Language from the list.
Enter the Potential
Environmental Impact for the language selected and click OK.
The translation information is displayed as a line item in the Language Dependent Potential Environmental
Impact w/o Safeguards section. Edit existing translation information
using the buttons adjacent to the line item.
Repeat steps 5 and 6 to add other language translations.
Click the Save button on the form.
Repeat steps 2 through 8 to add other potential impacts.
