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The EPA's Environmental Science Center (ESC) at Ft.
Meade MD is a state-of-the-art laboratory facility occupied by
people who care deeply about the environment. To help ensure
that the ESC is a good neighbor in the Ft. Meade community, we are
implementing an Environmental Management System (EMS) that will
conform to ISO 14001, the international standard for EMS. We
believe that an EMS, such as the one prescribed in ISO14001,
provides a management scheme that facilitates incorporating
environmental consideration into our daily business
activities. The EMS approach fosters compliance with legal
requirements, as well as thinking beyond compliance to improve
environmental performance for impacts to the environment that are
not regulated.
It is our intention to share our experiences and our
EMS tool box with any interested organization that is implementing
an EMS. This web page is intended to be both a story board on
our own progress and a collection of documents/links that may prove
helpful to others working on their own EMS. Please browse this
page for relevant information and contact us if you have questions
about the content or if you have other EMS questions we may help you
with.
Accomplishments
ESC EMS Accomplishments Updated July 8, ‘02
Advance
Meetings with Senior Managers to gain buy-in
Draft EMS Policy
Statement established by ESC Board
Contract awarded for EMS
training and consultative services (IRG Ltd.)
EMS Coordinator
designated
EMS Coordinator briefs ESC Organizational
units
Call for volunteers for EMS Team
EMS contract kick-off
meeting
EMS Team begins regular meetings (average 3x 2 hour
meetings per month)
EMS Awareness Phase 1 Training delivered to
all ESC occupants
EMS Implementation Training delivered to EMS
Team
EMS Team Activities/Aspects/Impacts analysis
Registry of
Legal Requirements
Significance Criteria
Significant
Aspects
Draft Targets and Objectives
Views of Interested
Parties
Final Draft Targets and Objectives
Resource
Estimates
Senior managers briefed on resource needs
Final
Targets and Objectives
EMS Procedures
EMP Forms
Internal
Auditor Training
Greenware software purchased, two day on-site
training
ESC EMS web site on-line
Registrar SOW written
Gap
Analysis with IRG
EMP Form finalization
EMS Manual
completion
EMS Policy Review
More Gap Analysis with
IRG
Awareness Phase 2
Launch workgroup
Assemble EMS
Records
Internal Audit Plan
Internal Audit
Management
Review
Upcoming events ‘02
Internal Audit Corrective Action -
July
Management Review Corrective Action - July
Greenware
Software integration - TBD
Focused Training as needed -
July
Launch additional Target Workgroups - Last qtr FY 02 and
first two quarters of FY ‘03
Announce self-certification -
July
Pre-registration Evaluation with IRG - July
Desk Audit -
August 7-8
On-site evaluation and Registration -September 4,
5
EMS Newsletters
EMS
Update 05/08/02
EMS
Update 07/30/02 |
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