Team Members:

o Ria Rai Joseph – B2548

o Jerrin Eapen Varughese – B2528
o Vinayak E K – B2556
o Alina Benny – B2506
o Aswathy V R- B2517
o Mathew Febin Charles – B2539
 WHAT IS EMS?
• An 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.
• It is a framework that helps an organization achieve its environmental
goals through consistent review, evaluation, and improvement of its
environmental performance.
CONNECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PEOPLE

• An EMS helps each member of the organization understand their role

in the environment, and to see how what they do at the facility
affects the environment
• It provides for responsibility, ownership, and accountability of actions
and related impacts,
• Results? People are more aware, better trained, more motivated, and
more enthusiastic.
 BASIC ELEMENTS OF AN EMS
• Reviewing the organization's environmental goals;
• Provides a systematic way of managing the environmental affairs of
an organization.
• Setting environmental objectives and targets to reduce environmental
impacts and comply with legal requirements;
• Establishing programs to meet these objectives and targets;
• Monitoring and measuring progress in achieving the objectives;
• Ensuring employees' environmental awareness and competence;
• Reviewing progress of the EMS and making improvements.
 POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF EMS
Legislative & Regulatory
Environmental Benefits
Benefits
• Serves as a driver & • Reduce organization’s
reminder potential to pay liability fees
• Benefit to organization & improve efficiency
• Better environmental • Eliminate the need for
performance multiple
registrations/certifications
Customer Satisfaction
• Improve public perceptions
& give organizations a
competitive advantage to
operate in international
marketplace
• Innovative & forward
thinking approach
• Reduce public liability
insurance costs & trade
barriers between registered
businesses.
 PDCA CYCLE
• An EMS follows a Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) Cycle.
• Plan : To establish objectives and processes required to deliver the desired
results.
• Do : The do phase includes planning from the previous step to be done. Small
changes are usually tested, and the data is gathered to see how effective the
change is.
• Check: The check phase analyses the data and results gathered from the do
phase and evaluate them. The data acquired is compared to that of the expected
outcomes to see if there is any similarities and differences.
• Act: Another word for act is "Adjust", this is the place where a process is
improved. Results from the "do" and "check" phases help in identifying issues
with the process. These issues may include problems, non-conformities,
opportunities for improvement, inefficiencies and other issues that result in
outcomes that are evidently less-than-optimal.
 EMS under ISO 14001
The most commonly used framework for an EMS is the one developed
by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for the ISO
14001 standard.
ISO 14001 is the international standard that specifies requirements for
an effective Environmental Management System (EMS). It provides a
framework that an organization can follow, rather than establishing
environmental performance requirements.
The five main stages of an EMS, as defined by the ISO 14001 standard, are
described below:
Contd.
• 1. Commitment and Policy - Top management commits to
environmental improvement and establishes the organization's
environmental policy. The policy is the foundation of the EMS.
• 2. Planning - An organization first identifies environmental aspects of
its operations. Environmental aspects are those items, such as air
pollutants or hazardous waste, that can have negative impacts on
people and/or the environment. An organization then determines
which aspects are significant by choosing criteria considered most
important by the organization.
Contd.
• 3. Implementation - A organization follows through with the action plan
using the necessary resources (human, financial, etc.). An important
component is employee training and awareness for all employees. Other
steps in the implementation stage include documentation, following
operating procedures, and setting up internal and external communication
lines.
• 4. Evaluation - A company monitors its operations to evaluate whether
targets are being met. If not, the company takes corrective action.
• 5. Review - Top management reviews the results of the evaluation to see if
the EMS is working. Management determines whether the original
environmental policy is consistent with the organization's values. The plan
is then revised to optimize the effectiveness of the EMS. The review stage
creates a loop of continuous improvement for a company.