In the case of reducing chemical spills, you must get the support of everyone who handles chemicals. Set up an awareness program so that all your employees understand the safe handling procedures and the various reporting requirements in the event of a spill. In the case of buying chemicals that do not contain carcinogens, the product development group and purchasing department will take the lead role. Someone in the product development group must evaluate various alternatives to ensure that they do not affect the quality of the final products.
Purchasing agents must look for vendors of acceptable alternatives. Senior management will then have to approve the new policy. Previous Next. Go to Top. When a company has an EMS Environmental Management System , whether certified to ISO or not, its effectiveness can only truly be measured by its performance against the objectives that have been defined.
It therefore stands to reason that understanding the effectiveness of your management system can be affected by the relevance and accuracy of your objectives. It could be possible for your organization to believe that performance is good, when in fact the objectives may not be relevant, aggressive enough or perhaps not even directly related to the real core activities of your business.
So, how can a company ensure that ISO objectives are relevant and truly help to drive improved environmental performance? Recently I took part in a supplier audit where the organization in question was going through an ISO implementation with the help of an external consultant. The organizational leaders were making suggestions on possible objectives for their EMS, despite only having just begun the implementation process.
This led me to think: until you understand your organizational activities and their environmental impact, you cannot truly define meaningful objectives for your EMS. This is managed through using conference and video calling, and applications like TeamViewer to limit the impact and reduce costs, as we examined in the article 6 Key Benefits of ISO This could be said to depend greatly on the sector in which a business operates. Let us consider two businesses at opposite ends of the scale, but within a close geographical distance — a fast food restaurant and a nuclear power plant.
Failure to comply with legislation would have a far greater impact on the environment and stakeholders for the power station than it would for a fast food restaurant. This objective may be less important to a fast food restaurant, which may find more value in an objective of recycling packaging and removing single-use plastic from its supply chain, despite also being aware that legislation must be met.
Reducing waste. Let us consider a nationwide restaurant business on one side and a local restaurant on another. While reduction of waste is desirable for any food business, it is easy to imagine the multiple environmental benefits that reducing waste can bring to a bigger business. It also means saving money and the possibility that the extra food can be redirected in to benefit others.
Although this may be hugely beneficial to the environment with respect to the reduced impact, it will be less so for the smaller organization. Responsible purchasing. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. ISO Knowledge base. Mark Hammar. Upcoming free webinar. Presenter Dejan Kosutic. How to perform consulting work remotely. Wednesday — January 26, How does product life cycle influence environmental aspects according to ISO ? Mark Hammar March 21, Demystification of legal requirements in ISO robertverbanac October 1, Almost all organizations implementing ISO are aware that legal requirements are the How can you improve your chances of successfully implementing ISO ?
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