Key points

• Small system, only one coordinator required to manage and maintain

• Ideal system to get you started in Environmental Management before you commit to a complex and expensive application

• Web based framework with supporting forms and documents in MS Excel and MS Word

• Designed using the international standards ISO 14001 and ISO 14004 as the basis for setting objectives and targets, measuring and monitoring and reporting

• Scalable for most organisations.  You determine the complexity of the objectives set, the processes and procedural requirements, the monitoring and measurement parameters and frequency.

• Examples to help you set up and operate your system

• Documentation to step you through getting started and ongoing operation of the system

What's Included

• Comprehensive Getting Started and ongoing Operating online documentation

• Blank templates and completed examples to help you set up your system correctly

• Templates provided for Registers, Forms, Environmental Management Plans and Standard Operating Procedures

• EMS manual cross referenced to international standards for compliance

• Procedure documents for each section of the EMS manual

• EMS Policy Statement

• Glossary of Terms

• Initial Review Form to help you collect information relevant to setting up your EMS

• Monitoring Forms to collate weekly, monthly and annual performance measurements

• Incident Management and Nonconformance templates

• Light customisation includes:-

• organisation name

• organisation logo

• corporate colours on forms, html pages etc

Content  (click on the links below for examples)

Includes:-

• EMS Homepage

• EMS Policy

• EMS Manual (Sample text from Manual)

• EMS Application

• Getting Started Instructions

• Forms

• Procedures (Example Procedure)

• Registers (Example Register)

• Environment Management Plans (Example EMP)

• Standard Operating Procedures (Example SOP)

• Monitoring documents

• Nonconformance and Incident Management Forms

• Glossary of Terms

• Links page

• Audit requirements and compliance documents for ISO 14001 and ISO 14004

• Top Tips for Sustainability

• Initial Review documents

• Internal Audit Assessment document

Compliance

Each section within the EMS Manual has been cross referenced to the international standards below.  Click the button under each section to reveal compliance links. 

Compliance with ISO 14001 Standard

ISO 14001 is an international standard covering environmental management that is intended to provide organisations with the elements of an effective environmental management system (EMS) that can be integrated with other management requirements and help organisations achieve environmental and economic goals.  It assists an organisation to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and information about significant environmental aspects.  The overall aim of this standard is to support environmental protection and prevention of pollution in balance with socio-economic needs.  The ISO 14001 standard can be used for certification/registration and/or self-declaration of the organisation's environmental management system.

Compliance with ISO 14004 Standard

ISO 14004 is part of the series of environmental management standards established by ISO/TC 207.  This standard describes the elements of an environmental management system and provides organisations with the guidance on how to establish, implement, maintain or improve an environmental management system.  Such a system can  substantially enhance an organisation's ability to anticipate, identify and manage its interactions with the environment, met its environmental objectives and ensure ongoing compliance with applicable legal requirements and with other requirements to which the organisation subscribes.

Compliance with ISO 90001 Standard

ISO 90001 is an international standard that enables organisations to employ best practice with regard to the deployment of process orientated management systems.

System requirements

Applications required to run the system:-

MS Word, MS Excel and MS Frontpage or other html editor

Internet Explorer or other web browser

Personnel required to run the system:-

An EMS Coordinator trained in the use of MS Word, MS Excel and MS Frontpage or other html editor.  This person will need to put the internal processes in place to ensure measurement and monitoring information is supplied back to them at the nominated frequency so that this information can be entered into the system.

Setup involves:-

Copying content of CD to a folder on your PC or within a shared electronic file system.  Create a link on your desktop to the index.htm page.  This is how you access the system.  Editing the html documents (eg procedures) is carried out in MS Frontpage or other editor.  Forms and other documents opened from the browser open in a separate window and can be edited and saved. 

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