Environmental Management Systems (EMS) provide a framework so that organisations can identify their environmental impacts, and install procedures to deliver continual improvement. EMS standards include the European Commission's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and the international standard ISO14001.
An increasing number of organisations see EMS as an effective means to:
- Identify resource savings.
- Help ensure legal compliance.
- Provide evidence of good environmental management.
- Lead by example within the community.
- Help deliver sustainable development.
- Help with corporate good management
Global to Local's EMS team has extensive international experience of developing EMS for a wide range of public and private sector organisations. Team members were responsible for the first ever local authority EMAS verification whilst at London Borough of Sutton and have remained at the leading edge of public sector EMS development ever since.
We :
- advise and train senior management and members
- undertake environmental reviews and develop EMS for service areas, sites or whole organisations
- run EMS policy development workshops
- undertake EMS auditing q drive EMS performance requirements down the supply chain
- undertake EMS strategic review processes
- help integrate EMS with corporate performance systems
- provide a challenge to ensure EMS programmes are delivering best possible practice
- help to integrate EMS with corporate procurement activities
- develop national guidance and training programmes for local authority EMS.
To see the EMS work that G2L has undertaken for clients, click here.
If you want to find out more, visit the European Commission's EMAS website. Other sites are on our links page.
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