Here is a sample of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems white paper:
ISO 14001 - How Your Organization's Commitment to EMS Implementation Can Drive Continual Improvement Throughout Your Organization
Prepared by:
John Fraser
Environmental Product Manager
QMI The demands of ISO 14001 are high. An organization is required to demonstrate a commitment to compliance with environmental laws and other requirements, pollution prevention and continual improvement. Of these three, continual improvement imposes a unique challenge, due to its need for constant renewal. This challenge can be met through an appropriate design for the environmental management system (EMS), i.e. one that fosters continual improvement. With twelve references to requirements related to continual improvement in the main body of the Standard, it is clearly a cornerstone of ISO 14001. Organizations are challenged to meet this commitment, year after year. The intention is that the management system is improved on a continual basis, although most organizations tend to focus on improving their environmental performance through objectives and targets and rely on the combination of their corrective/preventive action program, internal audit program and management review to improve the EMS. Even in the latter case, the intention is that an improved EMS will lead to improved overall performance. Given that continual improvement is a necessity, is your organization achieving it and is there consensus that your EMS can continue to deliver? Or are you still working on the "low hanging fruit"? What happens when they are exhausted? Can you foresee your current EMS enabling your organization to continue to improve, year after year? There are numerous organizations that have sought to achieve specific goals and objectives through their management systems, and designed and redesigned them accordingly. Is your EMS capable, i.e. designed, to promote and achieve continual improvement? To read the rest of the paper please complete the form below and you will be taken to a page to download the full paper.
John Fraser
Environmental Product Manager
QMI The demands of ISO 14001 are high. An organization is required to demonstrate a commitment to compliance with environmental laws and other requirements, pollution prevention and continual improvement. Of these three, continual improvement imposes a unique challenge, due to its need for constant renewal. This challenge can be met through an appropriate design for the environmental management system (EMS), i.e. one that fosters continual improvement. With twelve references to requirements related to continual improvement in the main body of the Standard, it is clearly a cornerstone of ISO 14001. Organizations are challenged to meet this commitment, year after year. The intention is that the management system is improved on a continual basis, although most organizations tend to focus on improving their environmental performance through objectives and targets and rely on the combination of their corrective/preventive action program, internal audit program and management review to improve the EMS. Even in the latter case, the intention is that an improved EMS will lead to improved overall performance. Given that continual improvement is a necessity, is your organization achieving it and is there consensus that your EMS can continue to deliver? Or are you still working on the "low hanging fruit"? What happens when they are exhausted? Can you foresee your current EMS enabling your organization to continue to improve, year after year? There are numerous organizations that have sought to achieve specific goals and objectives through their management systems, and designed and redesigned them accordingly. Is your EMS capable, i.e. designed, to promote and achieve continual improvement? To read the rest of the paper please complete the form below and you will be taken to a page to download the full paper.