Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

Question 1

Why bother with the environment?

Answer 1

• Customers
• Business partners
• Cost of disposal
• Cost of raw materials and transportation
• Employees
• The community
• Insurance
• Financial sector
• Investors
• Legislation`

Question 2

Environmental Legislation

Answer 2

-International, EC and local
-Environmental Protection Act (1990)
>Intergrated Pollution Control
>Polluter Pays
>Duty of Care
>Individual responsibility
>Local Authorities/contaminated land
>BATNEEC
>BPEO

Question 3

Environmental Protection Act

Answer 3

-integrates and enhances the three previous control regimes based on pollution of air, water and land. It is based on the concept that “the polluter must pay” and considers industrial discharges to all media in the context of the effect on the environment as a whole.

Question 4

What is ISO14001?

Answer 4

• First published in 1996
• Similar to BS7750 with no significant differences, and has replaced it
• Adopted by an increasingly large number of organisations like Ford, Toyota, Sony
• Number of registrations to ISO14001 could overtake those of ISO9000
• Designed to help an organisation systematic approach to the evaluation of its impact on the environment
• Internationally recognised environmental management standard. Systematic framework managing the immediate and long term environmental impacts of an organisation’s products, services and processes.

Question 5

ISO14001 Requirements?

Answer 5

• The development of an environmental policy
• Identification of environmental impacts
• Establishment of relavent legal and regulatory requirements
• Development of legal and regulatory targets
• The establishment and maintenance of an environmental programme in order to achieve its objectives and targets