Environmental Management Systems
A formal environmental management system establishes policies, objectives and procedures to integrate the control of environmental risks and the pursuit of resource efficiency into everyday business operations. Facilitating compliance with environmental legislation is another benefit of setting up an EMS.
EuGeos will guide you through all stages of setting up your environmental management system from initial review and policy formulation through to internal audit and first management review.
Performance First
At EuGeos we believe that environmental management systems (EMS) should have performance at their core. Any management system will only make a worthwhile contribution in business if it is focused on delivering a required level of performance. Put simply "You have to decide what you want to achieve before you worry about how you achieve it"!
We break environmental management system development into four stages:
Initial Review - Understanding the environmental performance needs of the organisation and establishing current performance as a baseline.
Policy Development - Establishing overall environmental performance aims for the entire organisation.
Environmental Programme Development - Setting out meaningful and measurable targets and the practical routes to achieving them.
System Development - Building just enough procedural formality to allow targets and policy aims to be delivered, and progress measured and reported.
System development isn't everything: systems need to work in practice. We involve key personnel throughout the organisation in the implementation phase, so that it has everyone's support and is effective in operation.
Using this approach, we ensure that the environmental management system in your organisation is a resource that enhances all-round business performance and is not a deadweight paperchase.
We also assist you to assess the costs and benefits of having your system certified to ISO14001 or pursuing EMAS accreditation.
Performance Last
To keep the focus on performance, we believe that all environmental management systems should include an element of environmental reporting - even if this remains internal to the organisation. With EuGeos, you can use the ISO14031 approach to identify relevant performance indicators. We also ensure that your internal information management is consistent with the demands of public environmental reporting, so that your internal environmental management system also works as a resource for your organisation's external communications.
At EuGeos, we design environmental management systems to deliver environmental improvement first and foremost. So we make sure that the system fits the organisation, rather than try to make the organisation fit the system. We can then ensure that the system meets the requirements of ISO14001, EMAS or other certifiable standard.
Talk to EuGeos before you use an off-the-shelf EMS template!
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