ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Would your organisation benefit from improved environmental performance?

Are you concerned about legal non compliance?

Are your key customers asking you questions about corporate responsibility and your environmental performance?

Are you literally throwing away profit from waste?

If you can truthfully say “NO!” to all these questions environmental management is not for you.

If “YES!” or “NOT SURE” then a structured environmental management system (EMS) could be your answer.

 

Environet’s experts have developed EMS in accordance with ISO 14001 for companies ranging from landfill operators, waste management companies, oil recyclers, ship bunkering, manufacturing companies and service companies since 1998.

Our philosophy is to keep the system simple and succinct - a tool that drives the organisations improvements.

We can help you with the following:

EMS System Procedures

Flow Chart - Click for a larger image Our system has evolved into a set of structured flow charts to cover all elements of the standard in an easy to understand and logical flow. These flow charts can be easily modified to suit any organisations particular requirements. The days of lengthy textual procedures are over!

Environmental Review

Our Environmental Reviews include a gap analysis of your existing environmental management arrangements compared against ISO 14001 requirements. We identify relevant legislation and measure your current level of compliance. We identify your key environmental aspects and impacts.

Environmental Policy

We can assist with the drafting of your Environmental Policy to ensure it covers all the elements required by ISO 14001, and make sure it is appropriate to your business and your target audience.

Environmental Aspects/Impacts Analysis

We can drive the aspects/impacts “brainstorm” to assist in the identification and evaluation of all environmental issues. This is the backbone to the EMS and a key element audited by the external certification company – get this wrong and your EMS fails!

Environmental Legislation

Any idea how much over complicated legislation there is relating to environmental protection – and there is considerably more EU driven red tape in the pipeline?

We assist by producing Enviro-Compliance, a tailored register of relevant legislation with brief summaries of the legal requirements where relevant to the organisation. This is generally updated on a quarterly basis to stay one step ahead of impending legislation.

Enviro-Compliance can also be an extremely useful tool for undertaking the Compliance Auditing.

Improvement Action

The desired outcome of the EMS is to drive environmental improvements to meet the organisations business objectives and targets. We have developed an *.xls EMS action plan to identify and log all necessary actions – an invaluable tool for keeping on track and to demonstrate continual improvement.

Have you considered how you could improve? Are there risk areas where you could end up with hefty clean up costs from pollution or ground contamination? Are you throwing away waste destined for landfill – if so there is likely to be a far better and cheaper way!

Environmental Training

You may need to provide your staff with some training on environmental issues e.g. general awareness, procedures relating for example to waste management or pollution control, or to train up your internal auditors.

Environet experts can provide tailor made seminars to suit.

Environmental Internal Auditing

Internal Audits are a requirement of ISO 14001 – the skill is to make them a positive experience where lessons can be learnt and improvements made, rather than a rushed paper exercise the day before the external auditor arrives!

Where you don’t have in house capability we can provide an auditor for your internal audits.

Certification Companies

There are numerous certification companies out there, some are UKAS accredited, others are not. We have considerable experience working with Certification Companies and can provide you with valuable insight into how they work. Some are positive and provide useful guidance on improving the EMS, others have clipboard mentality where the big picture tends to get lost. Remember, you are the client, you call the shots and as long as you stay compliant with ISO 14001 you will retain your ISO 14001 Certification.

 

 

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