Environmental Management System (EMS): Implementation Strategies™
The tools you need to build and grow an effective EMS!
Implementing an Environmental Management System (EMS) can be accomplished in many ways. This flexibility presents both an opportunity and a real challenge for environmental managers, and requires a concerted effort to add real value to the organization while creating cross-linkages to other (more well established) systems. Whether you are a business trying to satisfy customer demands for an EMS or a Federal Environmental Manager trying to meet Executive Order 13423 and 13514, your ability to understand how to make an EMS work in your organization is critical to your success.
The Environmental Management System (EMS): Implementation and Results™ course is intended for those with a basic understanding of ISO 14001 requirements, but are challenged with creating or managing an EMS that is viable within their organization.
This 2-day course focuses on both practical implementation steps and techniques for integrating the system with existing organizational systems and procedures.
You will leave this course with a toolkit of ideas for streamlining EMS implementation, improving existing systems, and moving toward value-added institutionalization of your EMS.
Topics covered include:
- ISO 14001 Refresher
- Implementing an EMS
- Implementation planning
- Key roles and responsibilities
- Selecting EMS coverage
- Useful aspects and impacts
- Gaining management support
- Integrating the EMS with existing systems
- Existing document management systems and how to use them
- Working with your organization’s employee training and performance evaluation programs
- Synergy between EMS and internal compliance audit programs
- EMS role in risk management
- Leveraging existing command-and-control procedures
- Coordinationg current organizational communications
- Sources of available environmental performance data
- Top 10 tips for EMS viability
- EMS concepts and principals
- Required ISO 14001:2004 elements
- Common interpretations of ISO 14001 requirements
- Implementing an ISO 14001 internal conformance audit program
- Critical action items and strategic action plans for an ISO 14001 EMS
- EMS best practices
Our Continuing Education Matrix provides a summary of current professional certification credits, maintenance points, and CEUs awarded to Institute courses.
Course Agendas are Subject to Change
Day One
- Overview of Environmental Audits and an EMS Within an Organization
- Establishing an Environmental Audit Program
- The Environmental Audit: Framework and Process
- Ranking and Reporting Findings
- Managing Audit Findings and Information
Day Two
- Overview of an EMS
- How to Use your EMS to Improve Auditing and Compliance
- Incorporating “Green” Strategies into Your Organization’s EMS
- EMS and Corporate Social Responsibility
- EMS and Organization Risk Management
- Environmental and Sustainable Certification Planning
Barry L. Rubin is an organizational environmental management expert with more than 20 years experience organizing and leading training programs, workshops, and collaborative meetings on topics such as environmental compliance auditing and compliance management, emergency response planning, environmental management, alternative fuels, NEPA, and resource sustainability for clients including the US Army, US Air Force and Air National Guard Bureau, DOE, EPA, FAA, HUD, National Park Service, West Governor’s Association, Fortune 500 businesses, and educational and municipal organizations. Barry is the Director of the Aarcher Institute of Environmental Training and a senior environmental consulting professional, engaged in providing clients with a broad range of environmental compliance, management, permitting, and training support.
Craig J. Schwartz, CHMM, CPEA, is an environmental regulatory compliance expert, with more than 20 years hands on experience assisting clients achieve and maintain compliance nationwide. He is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) and a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA). He has also achieved certification by the US Army Corps of Engineers as a wetland delineator, UST operator certifications in multiple states, several state-level sediment and erosion control certifications, pesticide manager certification, and RAB/QSA ISO 14001 Lead Auditor certification training.
Craig formerly served as technical manager for the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Wetlands Information Hotline, program manager for USEPA Enforcement Support Services (ESS), project manager for the development of comprehensive environmental compliance audit protocols, and technical lead for hundreds of facility environmental plans and permit applications. Craig has supported more than 250 private companies and Federal agencies, ranging from steel mills to the US Army, and has led environmental compliance assistance audits for more than 350 facilities in 42 states, and has been approved by the USEPA as a third-party compliance evaluator.
