Achieving Environmental Excellence: Integrating P2 and EMS to Increase Profits

Learn a step-by-step, methodical approach to maximizing the long-term profitability and sustainability of your business by merging pollution prevention (P2) techniques with an environmental management system (EMS). This book shows you how to manage both regulatory and voluntary environmental concerns, enabling your company to improve production efficiencies and product quality, reduce direct costs for waste, control near- and long-term environmental liabilities, reduce the direct and indirect costs of compliance, and anticipate future compliance challenges. Achieving Environmental Excellence begins with overviews of EMS and P2 and with an overview of the integrated EMS/P2 framework that companies can apply to any or all of their operations. The authors then closely examine the five phases of implementing an integrated EMS/P2 program. Within these phases, the authors address the personnel issues and responsibilities, company policies, and life cycle analysis tools you need to develop the most cost-effective pollution prevention investment strategies for your facility. They also examine how the activities in each phase and the requirements of ISO 14001 relate and how your company would fulfill ISO 14001 certification requirements through an integrated EMS/P2 approach.