EVT472 Environmental Management System Fairus Muhamad Darus © 2019

TOPIC 1:

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ISO 14000) :

AN OVERVIEW

By the end of this topic, you should be able to:

– Describe about Environmental Management System

(EMS – ISO 14000)
– Elaborate objective, scope and benefits of EMS

1.1 Environment

What do we mean by the word’s ‘environment’ and

‘environmental management’?

Environment: _____________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

Environment Management:
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

The word ‘environment’ is used in different ways. We talk of the

‘home environment’, the ‘work environment’, the ‘social
environment’.

We use the word to describe our physical surroundings, made

up of atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Our
concern must be for the world as a whole, it’s ‘air, water, land,
natural resources, flora, fauna, humans, and their inter-
relations’.

By ‘environmental management’ we mean keeping control of

our activities so that we do what we can to conserve these
physical resources and to avoid polluting them.

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We can apply these controls in our life domestically, in what we

buy and what we throw away, but it is usually in our work where
the environmental impact of what we do is greatest. Such has
been the impact of industrial activity that resources are
becoming depleted and environmental damage is increasing.

1.2 Environmental Management System (ISO 14000)

Environmental management system (EMS) is a set of processes

and practices that enable an organization to reduce its
environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency
(Also known as ISO14000 series standards).

1.2 Objective of EMS

The overall objective of this EMS is to support

______________________________________________ and
____________________________________________________________
in balance with socioeconomic needs.

The fundamental objective of EMS is to assist organization in

preventing or minimizing environmental impact that could
result from the organization’s activities, products, or services.

The EMS standards are based on simple equation:

“Better environmental management will lead better

environmental performance, increased efficiency, and
greater return or investment.”

An effective environmental management system can help a

company or organization manage, measure and improve the
environmental aspects of its operations.

It can lead to more efficient compliance with mandatory and

voluntary environment requirements.

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EMS exists to help organization:

(a) _________________________________________ how their

operations (processes etc.) negatively affect the
environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or
land);

(b) ___________________________________ with applicable laws,

regulations, and other environmentally oriented
requirements,

(c) _______________________________________ in the above.

1.3 Scope of EMS

The EMS Standard specifies requirements for an environmental

management system to enable an organization to develop
and implement a policy and objectives which take into
account legal requirements and other requirements to which
the organization subscribes, and information about significant
environmental aspects.

It applies to those environmental aspects that the organization

identifies as those which it can control and those which it can
influence. It does not itself state specific environmental
performance criteria.

The ISO 14000 standard are process standard , not

performance standards. ISO 14000 does not tell companies
what environmental performance they must achieve.

1.4 Applicability of EMS

EMS standards are generic standards.

Generic means that the same standards can be applied:

• to any organization, large or small, whatever its product

or service,

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• in any sector of activity, and whether it is a business

enterprise, a public administration, or a government
department.

EMS standards can be applied to any organization, public or

private, large or small, that could have any impact on the
environment.

1.5 ISO 14000 Series Family

1.6 Benefits of EMS

___________________________________________________________ –
A common international standards – will reduce barriers to
trade.

_________________________________________________________ –
The ISO 14000-certified EMS has take into account all
applicable legislative and regulatory requirement.

______________________________________________________ –
periodically being audited by a third party registrar.

__________________________________________________________ –
less apt to have environmental problem.

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__________________________________________________________–
through its effort in pollution preventing and waste reduction.

_______________________________________________________ –
favor in doing business with the environmental friendly
organization.

_________________________________________________________ –
will improve profit.

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