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Environmental Management Systems

We have an experienced consultancy team that can help your business to develop, implement and maintain your Environmental Management System – whether you are starting to prepare your system or it is already certified. We will work with you to ensure your system continues to demonstrate your commitment to continuous environmental improvement by protecting the environment and maintaining compliance with legislation. 

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ISO 14001 Gap Analysis

What is an ISO 14001 Gap Analysis?

If your business is looking to implement or transition to the ISO14001:2015 standards, our expert environmental consultants can prepare you by carrying out a gap analysis. The gap analysis helps you to understand your current environmental performance and it benchmarks your compliance with ISO14001:2015.

What are the benefits of our ISO 14001 Gap Analysis service?

  • Understand outstanding actions to achieve compliance
  • Receive a detailed report highlighting areas of improvement
  • Provides confidence in preparation for the third-party certification audit
  • Provides a foundation for developing a feasible Environmental Management System project plan, directing resource allocation and allowing the generation of timelines for corrective actions.
  • It allows a systematic review and continuous improvement process, moving away from a reactive approach
  • Establishes a baseline for tracking improvements and demonstrating the effectiveness of an Environmental Management System, so progress is measurable

What can you expect from an ISO 14001 Gap Analysis?

A gap analysis provides you with an understanding of your level of compliance with the ISO14001:2015 standards regarding your environmental management system. The report will detail the outstanding actions that are required to prepare for the third-party audit with the certification company.

This can then be followed up with guidance and professional support to help your business make the necessary alterations in time for the certification audit. Aiming for minimal impact to the day-to-day operations of your business, our team of experts will take away the stress and worry the transition could have on your business.

Environmental Review/Legal Compliance Audit

What is an Environmental Review/Legal Compliance Audit?

An Environmental Review/Legal Compliance Audit gives an understanding of non-compliance with applicable legislation and areas that require improvements in order to reduce any environmental liabilities.

As environmental legislation becomes increasingly complex, our legal compliance support and assistance gives you peace of mind that your environmental responsibilities are being met. Our team of experts will conduct a full audit of your business and provide recommendations to ensure that it remains legally compliant.

What are the benefits of an Environmental Review/Legal Compliance Audit?

  • Understand how your processes affect the environment
  • Improved environmental performance
  • Operating and administrative efficiencies
  • Conducted by environmental experts with knowledge of a range of sectors
  • Have peace of mind on complex compliance issues
  • A cost and time-effective way to manage your legal requirements
  • Understanding and evaluating compliance contributes to a successful Environmental Management System.

What to expect from an Environmental Review/Legal Compliance Audit

Our qualified and experienced environmental consultants will use their valuable expertise and knowledge of all types of industry sectors to help you understand your current risk and compliance with legislation.

You receive a full audit, detailed report, and recommendations for your business.

They will also provide you with an action plan of recommendations, including immediate changes that can be undertaken to improve your environmental performance and compliance.

Our dedicated team of experts will assess all of your business processes and practices. We’ll compile a detailed report which will highlight any areas of compliance that require attention. We’ll provide recommendations for these areas and suggest other improvements to help you comply with environmental law and prevent incidents before they occur.

The other benefits of an environmental review include using the results to develop relevant environmental documents and assists with determining your appropriate level of insurance cover, where applicable. These operating and administrative efficiencies can often result in cost savings for your business.

Environmental Management System (EMS) Development and Implementation

What is our Environmental Management System (EMS) Development and Implementation service?

An effective Environmental Management System documents a set of processes and practices that ensure your business manages its environmental risk while targets are being achieved.

If your Environmental Management System needs developing, implementing or maintaining, our environmental experts can help you achieve that with a bespoke or accredited system.  When you implement your system throughout your organisation you demonstrate you take environmental management seriously to your customers, suppliers, investors and your competition.

What are the benefits of our EMS Support and Implementation service?

  • Improve your environmental performance
  • Realised cost-savings and operating efficiencies
  • Reduced environmental risks
  • Compliance with your environmental permit, legislation and policy
  • A professional and positive corporate image
  • Green credentials that can help you to acquire and retain business
  • Reduced insurance costs

What to expect from EMS Support and Implementation?

Our service considers your current business processes and policies, your objectives and targets, environmental aspects, and legal and other requirements. It ensures that your Environmental Management System has structure so that processes are clear and everyone in your business understands their responsibilities. We can even provide training for your staff.

A successful Environmental Management System enables your business to reduce its environmental impact and can also increase your operating efficiency.

A successful Environmental Management System delivers continuous improvements, and we can help your business to achieve this by monitoring and measuring your system and suggesting corrective, preventative and enhancement actions. This full, systematic approach will help your business to achieve continual sustainable development.

Internal Auditing service

What is our Internal Auditing service?

Our team of expert environmental consultants can carry out an internal audit of the day-to-day activities of your business for you to understand any operational actions you need to take to adhere to ISO14001:2015 standards

What are the benefits of Internal Auditing?

  • Benchmark your environmental management
  • Certainty that you are adhering to ISO14001:2015 standards
  • Confidence in your preparation for an external audit
  • Achieve your environmental commitments and remain compliant
  • Professional support from our experienced consultants

What to expect from Internal Auditing

The audit carried out by our experienced environmental consultants will look at all aspects of your business, including performing a check that your system is compliant to ISO14001:2015 and that your policies and procedures have been kept up to date. It will also give you peace of mind that your organisation has continued to perform in the way required to meet the standards.

Audits like this should always be carried out by a third party, and our experienced experts can provide you with a fresh perspective on any issues or necessary actions that are identified.

Environmental Auditing Training

What is an Environmental Auditing Training Course?

The course is for those responsible for carrying out environmental audits. This includes site audits and audits of management systems. You will learn the difference between audit types and what to do before, during and after an audit. This course uses ISO 14001 for reference, but the skills learned can be applied to other standards. Topics covered include:

  • An introduction to auditing
  • Audit types
  • Preparing for an audit
  • Conducting an audit
  • Following up after an audit

What are the benefits of our Environmental Auditing Training Course?

  • Understand how to carry out a successful audit
  • Ensure you carry out useful audits
  • Meet your ISO 14001 requirements
  • Flexible delivery around client business needs and the needs of the candidate

What to expect from our Environmental Auditing Training Course

  • Learn how to audit successfully
  • Develop confidence in what is required before, during and after an audit
  • Develpoment of transferable skills
  • Can be used to audit systems other than ISO 14001
  • The course is tailored to the candidate
  • Use of own documents and procedures

Unlike most training providers, our dedicated training team is comprised of practicing environmental consultants. As part of their day-to-day role, our trainers work with some of the UK’s largest organisations to help them maintain compliance with environmental legislation. This means that our team is positioned perfectly to deliver training content as well as real-world advice and working case-studies. We also offer flexible delivery options and can deliver courses at your premises.

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