Manage your environmental responsibilities

An Environmental Management System (EMS) provides a practical framework to manage and reduce the environmental impact that your company has on the environment. 

The framework also ensures that your company takes the time to identify and comply with relevant environmental legislation.

There is also pressure on companies to prove their environmental awareness to customers and stakeholders.  E4 can provide you with a top-level environmental consultant who can guide your company through its environmental issues at an affordable price.

Why bother?

Common benefits for an organisation implementing an Environmental Management System can be: 

• Improved environmental awareness - An increased awareness of your operations/processes, can lead to increased efficiency.
• Cost Savings - Virtually all businesses with an EMS save money through reductions in raw material use, energy and water consumption and waste production. It can also help to reduce insurance premiums.
• Legislative compliance - An EMS will help ensure that you are complying with relevant legal requirements, and can anticipate any forthcoming changes.

EMS Development

Many companies are beginning to see the advantage of implementing an Environmental Management System (EMS).  Our environmental consultants can help your company through this process.  They will assess the environmental health of your company and identify actions that should be taken to improve or maintain these levels of health.  We can provide training, workshops and progress reviews as and when required.  Establishing an EMS can usually be split into the following 6 stages, all of which can be completed by our consultants, working together with your staff:

• Completion of a Preliminary Environmental Review
• Drafting of an Environmental Policy Statement
• Developing a Register of Legislation
• Drafting Procedures
• Setting Targets
• Monitoring Progress

For further information on Environmental management Systems please give us a call on 01743 343403 and ask for Gemma, or email gsf@e4environment.co.uk

Some of the challenges of implementing an EMS are the resources required to do it and changing attitudes of the business.