Overview
Corporate and municipal EMS planning, development and implementation including:
- Identifying applicable international and other environmental standards
- Preliminary Environmental Risk Analysis and Environmental Audit to establish state of compliance as basis for establishing Corporate Environmental Policy, in context of corporate objectives and resource priorities
- Corporate Environmental Policy development based on state of compliance, management objectives, corporate resources
EMS Planning must consider:
- Specific industrial/municipal environmental activities and concerns,
- Regulatory and contractual requirements, industry standards and industry association commitments, codes of conduct, voluntary commitments
- Corporate objectives and targets
EMS Implementation and Operation includes:
- Integrating environmental responsibilities into the organizational structure
- Establishing clear lines of communication
- Training all responsible parties
- Documenting the EMS and integrating EMS aspects into manuals, procedures and other corporate documentation
- Design and implementation of document control and operation control procedures
- Design and implementation of emergency preparedness and response programs
EMS Checking and Corrective Action may include:
- Monitoring and measurement of environmental performance designed to indicate conformance with targets and objectives, legal compliance and to provide early indication of areas requiring preventative or corrective action
- Records designed and maintained to complement EMS operation and goals
- Environmental management system audit
- Management Review
- Executive review and action maintains the integrity of EMS
- Due diligence requires executive oversight