Installing Environmental Management Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide

An authoritative guide to the implementation of environmental management systems. This edition has been revised to cover changes in international standards and other related developments in the field. It draws on the authors' extensive hands-on experience in both implementing and training others to do so. Set out in a straightforward series of steps, it cuts through the jargon and demolishes the myths that surround this important management tool. Clear and concise, yet packed with helpful practical examples and insider tips, it has become the standard manual for managers and consultants

Table of Contents:
Introduction: How to Use This Book * Setting Up - Commitment: Do we Want to do This? * The Initial Environmental Review: Where are we Now? * Planning - Aspects and Impacts: What are we Trying to Manage? Legislative and Regulatory Issues: What Must we do? * Developing a Policy: Where do we Want to Go? * Developing Objectives and Targets: What are the Landmarks on our Route? * Environmental Management Programmes: Who is Doing What by When? * Doing - Communication: Who Talks to Whom? * Training and Awareness: Do we Know How to Do This? * Documents and their Control: Where have we been? Operational Controls: Can we do This? * Checking - Environmental Management System Auditing: Are we Doing what we Say? * Acting - Management Review: Where do we Want to go Next? * Appendices - Understanding the Requirements of Environmental Management System Standards * Third Party Auditing * Environmental Management System Project management * Planning for Continual Improvement * Integrated Management Systems * Glossary

About the Author :
Christopher Sheldon is an international policy advisor, trainer, author and broadcaster on environmental management. Mark Yoxon has worked with numerous organizations from small business to EU policy making and was a member of the Management Charter Initiative (MCI) working group which developed vocational qualifications for environmental management. He now divides his time between the Open University and INFORM Training & Communication.

Review :
'Covers everything you could possibly want to know about corporate environmental management' Supply Management 'A comprehensive analysis of the role of business in safeguarding the environment' Industry and Environment 'Sheldon and Yoxon have created a user-friendly, 'teach yourself how' manual' Green Futures 'A plain language, practical handbook for corporate executives and project managers' Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) 'A user-friendly, easy-to-follow guide to the complexity of environment management..' Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management