The purpose of an EMS is to provide an organisation with a means of improving sustainability, health and safety for workers and public, and to do so in a financially viable manner. The practical approach which an EMS supplies, reduces nonconformity from those responsible for implementing the adopted practises for improved sustainability. An EMS is able to tackle large-scale problems from the organisation’s energy supplier to smaller scale non-regulated issues such as installing time sensitive...
The purpose of an EMS is to provide an organisation with a means of improving sustainability, health and safety for workers and public, and to do so in a financially viable manner. The practical approach which an EMS supplies, reduces nonconformity from those responsible for implementing the adopted practises for improved sustainability. An EMS is able to tackle large-scale problems from the organisation’s energy supplier to smaller scale non-regulated issues such as installing time sensitive lighting, to improved practice in recycling. An EMS should incorporate the following basic elements
Reviewing the organisation’s environmental goals;
Analysing its environmental impacts and legal requirements;
Setting goals to decrease impacts on the environment, complying with any possible legal requirements
Forming drivers to meet these objectives
Reviewing the organisation’s progress in achieving these objectives and improving the EMS wherever possible; and
Confirming the competence and environmental awareness of all employees (IIED, n.d.)