An effective Environmental Management System (EMS) will help you to meet your legal obligations, be resource efficient, and showcase your abilities to your supply chain.
- Why should my business have an Environmental Management System?
- How do I get an EMS for my business?
- How can I get EMS training?
Why should my business have an Environmental Management System?
Are rising resource costs, changing environmental regulations and customer demands putting pressure on you to demonstrate good environmental performance?
Customers increasingly demand evidence of environmental performance. Providing copies of environmental policies or ISO14001 accreditation is now a common requirement of tenders and contracts.
An effective Environmental Management System (EMS) will help you to meet your legal obligations, be resource efficient, and showcase your abilities to your supply chain.
An EMS is a structured, organised method of controlling and reducing the environmental impact of your operations, whatever they may be. Adopting an EMS can help your organisation meet its legal obligations, improve its environmental performance, increase resource efficiency and achieve cost savings. Implementing a robust EMS will help you to:
- comply with changing legislation and avoid the risk of fines and damage to your reputation;
- improve environmental performance and demonstrate your new capabilities to employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders;
- improve resource efficiency and protect profits from unnecessary expenditure; and
- set achievable improvement targets.
How do I get an EMS for my business?
Zero Waste Scotland’s EMS Building Blocks guides you through each stage of the EMS process, from identifying significant environmental aspects – the factors your company needs to monitor and control – right through to the management review stage. Download this guide here.
Zero Waste Scotland’s On Course For Zero Waste is a series of FREE accredited distance training modules. Each module provides in-depth training in a key topic for improving the environmental performance of your organisation.
Module 8, Environmental Management Systems – An Introduction, can be accessed here.
Guidance is provided on the practical application of the skills you will learn. Downloadable tools and templates are provided, so you will be well equipped to bring about change.
