Measuring your Company's Environmental Impact Templates and Tools for a Complete ISO 14001 Initial Review

About this book

A step-by-step manual and complementary CD-ROM containing tools for managers to carry out a complete company-wide initial environmental review as a pre-requisite for introducing an environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001 or EMAS. Emphasis is placed on collecting and presenting quantitative data starting with the material and energy flows through the company. The manual also contains indicators for energy, transporation and water use, to help the user compare with other companies. The toolkit includes the following electronic files: a template for the environmental review (Word file), with tables to fill in with data and text; an inventory and calculating tool designed to calculate emissions and the environmental impact of the company's transportation, energy consumption and other activities (Excel file); and instructions and forms for an Environmental FMEA - a method for identifying and evaluating environmental impacts to determine your company's most significant environmental aspects.

Contents

About the environmental review; descriptions of operations; law and other requirements; accidents; raw materials and components; chemicals and chemical products; energy consumption; waste and recycling; impact on the surrounding area; transport; the products; summary of emissions and consumption of resources; evaluation of environmental aspects.

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Biography

Mats Zackrisson is a research engineer on environmental issues at IVF Industrial Research and Development Corporation, Sweden. Gunnar Bengtsson, a research engineer at IVF, focuses on finding business solutions to environmental issues. Camilla Norberg is a research engineer at the Transport Research Institute, Sweden.