Environmental Management System (EMS)

Basic EMS:

As part of an organization's strategy to implement its environmental policy and address governmental regulations, an environmental management system (EMS) can be developed in accordance with the ISO 14001 standard. An EMS directs resources toward meeting the organization's policy commitments, which may include reducing or eliminating the negative environmental impacts of its products, services, and activities and/or increasing their positive effects.

EMS Components:

A management system's three primary processes are as follows:

• The fundamental processes, their outcomes, and the identification of significant environmental aspects and impacts
• Key supporting processes include those for maintaining legal compliance, ensuring employee competency, providing infrastructure, communicating EMS information, and monitoring and evaluating environmental performance.
• Document control, record control, and internal auditing are examples of management system supporting processes.

The Benefits of EMS:

The following are some of the benefits of using an environmental management system:

• Taking a comprehensive approach to environmental impacts
• concentrating solely on critical aspects and processes
• Using time-tested, mature approaches that are well-known around the world
• Developing favorable relationships with regulators

An organization can expect the following economic benefits from implementing an environmental management system or practicing good environmental stewardship:

• Corporate image and reputation
• Reduced environmental costs and fees
• expanded access to new customers
• Direct savings from reducing environmental sources

It is critical to understand that an environmental management system is created by any organization. If one organization does not receive the expected benefits from its management system, an improvement team should assess the organization's level of maturity and take the necessary steps to advance to the next level in order to realize the full potential of the environmental management system. For that we developed training courses that can help you or your employees to have a full understnding and get to receive the best results, check our Environmental Management System training courses