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Why Strive to Manage the Environment?
Companies face environmental issues that cost them money:
• Energy consumption
• Resource planning
• Waste generation
• Transportation
• Chemical management
• Decommissioning of equipment
All these issues require systematic management and tools.
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Why Strive to Manage the Environment?
A standardized EMS allows a company to:
• Manage risk on complex liability issues
• Provide assurance to stakeholders
• Plan and achieve continual improvement
• Promote a positive company image
• Save money
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Why a Management System?
Management tools to prevent pollution (i.e. waste) and reduce costs (1-10-100 Rule):
• Prevention Costs: $1
• Detection Costs: $10
• Correction Costs: $100
The rule explains how failure to take notice of one cost escalates the loss in terms of dollars.
Source: 1-10-100 Rule; Total Quality Management, Joel E.Ross
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Benefits of an EMS
Marketing Potential:
• Some customers use ISO 14001 to manage their supplier base
• A Registration Certificate can be your entry for some customers
New Employees:
• Documented procedures speed integration of new employees
Existing Employees:
• Procedures provide employees with another reference for performing work
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Definition
Environmental Management System (EMS):A continual cycle of planning, implementing, reviewing, and improving the actions that an organization takes to meet its environmental obligations
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Scope of an EMS
• Inputs of all resources
• Outputs of all wastes
• Plan-Do-Check-Act of all processes
• All areas of potential environmental impact
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Plan-Do-Check-Act and ISO 14001:2004
Your Process
PLAN DO
CHECKACT
4.2 Environmental Policy4.3 Planning
4.4 Implementation and Operation
4.5 Checking4.5 Checking4.6 Management Review
ContinualImprovement
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Environmental Management Systems
An EMS requires an organization to:1. Establish a strategic environmental policy committed to prevention
of pollution
2. Identify environmental aspects associated with the company’s activities, products and services and evaluate their impact(s)
3. Consider regulatory issues applicable to environmental aspects in setting objectives and targets
4. Establish a disciplined management process for achieving targets
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Environmental Management Systems (con’t)
An EMS requires an organization to:5. Develop management and employee commitment to the protect
the environment
6. Assign clear roles, responsibilities, and authorities
7. Practice environmental planning from raw material acquisition through product distribution
8. Provide appropriate and sufficient resources, including training, to achieve targeted performance levels
9. Establish an emergency preparedness and response program
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Environmental Management Systems (con’t)
An EMS requires an organization to:
10.Develop operational control programs
11.Evaluate environmental performance against the policy, objectives, and targets
12.Seek improvement wherever appropriate
13.Establish a management process to review and audit the EMS
14.Establish and maintain appropriate communication with internal and external interested parties
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Environmental Management Systems
Issues driving EMS implementation:
• Environmental risk
• Cost and resource issues
• Complex organizational and regulatory challenges
• Difficulty in convincing management that the environment is an important business issue
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The ISO 14000 Standard
ISO 14000 EMS is:
• Consensus-based
• Voluntary
• Designed with integration in mind
• Designed to verify conformance
• Practical
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ISO 14001:2004
ISO 14001 is:• A structure for managing significant
environmental aspects over which a company can be expected to have control
• Designed to be used by any company of any size in any place
• Negotiated through a consensus process
• A system that defines roles from “top down” and “bottom up”
• A system that requires appropriate resources and support
ISO 14001 is not:• A performance standard
• A standard that requires disclosure of performance levels
• A standard that requires performance levels
• A standard that requires a company to surpass regulatory compliance limits
• A standard that requires a company to use best available technologies
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Why Register to ISO 14001:2004?
• An EMS focuses on the entire management process instead of merely the end result
• A comprehensive management system approach to the environment will play a valuable part in long-term success
• Many industrial sectors are attempting to compete through environmental improvements
• Leaders are translating their environmental concerns into the language of business
• Good environmental management translates to cold hard cash
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Registration Benefits
By implementing an EMS, an organization can:• Improve environmental performance
• Limit corporate liability
• Decrease compliance costs
• Enhance compliance with industry specific codes
• Improve communication
• Protect and conserve natural resources
• Protect public health and the environment
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Registration
The scope of registration includes steps to move toward certification:
1. Identify the scope for both the certification and site
2. Conduct an initial review that benchmarks the company’s current systems against ISO 14001:2004 (gap analysis)
3. Fill in the gaps
4. Implement all requirements of ISO 14001:2004
5. Perform internal audits against your company’s EMS
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Third-party Certification to ISO 14001:2004
• A third party audit is conducted to validate a site’s conformance to the standard
• Duration is determined by the size of the operation, complexity of the organization, and the risk level of the activities within the scope
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Third-party Certification to ISO 14001:2004
After undergoing the initial audit, the audit team will do one of the following:
Recommend your system for certification
Recommend your system for certification based on acceptable corrective action plans
Be unable to recommend your system for certification at this time due to one or more major nonconformities
?
X
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Continuing Assessment
• ISO 14001 certificates are valid for three years
• EMSs must undergo continuing assessment every six to twelve months
• Certain elements will be covered each visit
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