WWF NATURE CARNIVAL THEME
FOR UNIVERSITIES
ENVIORMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM –EMS
EMS: A DEFINITION
An EMS consists, quite simply, of a cyclical management process where an organization: first, defines its environmental policy and makes a commitment to
work towards specified environmental goals; second, establishes a plan to work towards its environmental goals; third, implements the plan by, where
necessary, assigning responsibilities, allocating resources and acquiring new skills; fourth, checks progress through systematic measurement and evaluation;
and fifth, reviews its progress and acts to correct problems.
WHAT IS ENVIORMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROGRAM?
An environmental management system (or commonly referred to as an EMS) is a structured system designed to help organizations manage their environmental
impacts and improve environmental performance caused by their products, services and activities. A system provides structure to environmental management
and covers areas such as training, record management, inspections, objectives and policies.
KEY BENEFITS OF ENVIORMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Running an effective EMS will help you with:
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Better regulatory compliance - running an EMS will help ensure your environmental legal responsibilities are met and more easily managed on a dayto-day basis
More effective use of resources - you will have policies and procedures in place that help you manage waste and resources more effectively and
reduce costs
Marketing - running an EMS will help you prove your business' credentials as an environmentally aware operation that has made a commitment to
continual environmental improvement
Finance - you may find it easier to raise investment from banks and other financial institutions, which are increasingly keen to see businesses
controlling their environmental impact
IS ENVIORMENT MANGEMENT SYSTEM IS ATTRACT FULL FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Integrating an Environmental Management System (EMS) into your business gives you a structured framework for managing its significant environmental
impacts. Other than improved environmental performance an EMS can provide a business with many other benefits too.
Improved health, safety and quality management are likely to result from implementing an EMS because of the plan, do, check and act process of seeking
continual improvement one goes through and the similarity with health, safety and quality systems (see image above and links below).
General management and efficiency improvements cut waste of resources, save energy and improve transport logistics, with consequent financial savings and
optimization of time use.
ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
An environmental management system (EMS) is a management tool that an organization uses to manage environmental risk and reach environmental goals. All
EMSs are cyclical and iterative management processes designed to achieve continual environmental improvement. An EMS may only be implemented by an
organization to improve the management of environmental impacts over which it has control. Prior to implementing an EMS, an organization identifies its legal
and regulatory obligations, which may include compliance against minimum standards, and also identifies environmental aspects, impacts and risks of its
operations. Having done this, the EMS may be implemented.