Green profits : the manager's handbook for ISO 14001 and pollution prevention / Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Avrom Bendavid-Val.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheremisinoff, Nicholas P.

Contributor:

Bendavid-Val, Avrom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ISO 14001 Standard.

Manufacturing industries--Environmental aspects.

Manufacturing industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. ; Oxford : Butterworth Heinemann, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored by an environmental engineer and an economist/planner, Green Profits shows how to implement an EMS, especially ISO 14001, so that it leads to profitable pollution prevention innovations, and how to identify and implement pollution prevention measures in a sound strategic business framework. Green Profits provides the knowledge and tools for enterprise managers to achieve the benefits of both EMS and P2, and to do so in ways that fit in with exis

Contents:

Front Cover; Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; ROAD MAP TO PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; CHAPTER 1. EMS: PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS; The Basics of an EMS: What Is It, and Why Do It; What the ISO 14001 Standard Is All About; Essential Elements of the ISO 14001 EMS; One More Time; Questions for Thinking and Discussing; CHAPTER 2. EMS: APPLIED MODELS; ISO 14001 and Implementation Overview; Environmental Policy (Clause 4.2); Planning: Environmental Aspects (Subclause 4.3.1)

Planning: Legal and Other Requirements (Subclause 4.3.2)Planning: Objectives and Targets (Subclause 4.3.3); Planning: Environmental Management Programs (Subclause 4.3.4); Implementation and Operation: Structure and Responsibility (Subclause 4.4.1); Implementation and Operation: Training, Awareness, and Competence (Subclause 4.4.2); Implementation and Operation: Communication (Subclause 4.4.3); Implementation and Operation: EMS Documentation (Subclause 4.4.4); Implementation and Operation: Document Control (Subclause 4.4.5); Implementation and Operation: Operational Control (Subclause 4.4.6)

Implementation and Operation: Emergency Preparedness and Response (Subclause 4.4.7)Checking and Corrective Action: Monitoring and Measurement (Subclause 4.5.1); Checking and Corrective Action: Nonconformance and Corrective and Preventative Action (Subclause 4.5.2); Checking and Corrective Action: Records (Subclause 4.5.3); Checking and Corrective Action: EMS Audit (Subclause 4.5.4); Management Review (Clause 4.6); One More Time; Two Exercises; Questions for Thinking and Discussing; CHAPTER 3. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES; Using this Chapter; Before Policy; Environmental Policy (Clause 4.2)

Planning: Environmental Aspects (Subclause 4.3.1)Planning: Legal and Other Requirements (Subclause 4.3.2); Planning: Objectives and Targets (Subclause 4.3.3); Planning: Environmental Management Programs (Subclause 4.3.4); Implementation and Operation: Structure and Responsibility (Subclause 4.4.1); Implementation and Operation: Training, Awareness, and Competence (Subclause 4.4.2); Implementation and Operation: Communication (Subclause 4.4.3); Implementation and Operation: EMS Documentation (Subclause 4.4.4); Implementation and Operation: Document Control (Subclause 4.4.5)

Implementation and Operation: Operational Control (Subclause 4.4.6)Implementation and Operation: Emergency Preparedness and Response (Subclause 4.4.7); Checking and Corrective Action: Monitoring and Measurement (Subclause 4.5.1); Checking and Corrective Action: Nonconformance and Corrective and Preventative Action (Subclause 4.5.2); Checking and Corrective Action: Records (Subclause 4.5.3); Checking and Corrective Action: EMS Audit (Subclause 4.5.4); Management Review (Clause 4.6); One More Time; Exercises; Questions for Thinking and Discussing; CHAPTER 4. EMS: FIRST STEPS

The Benefits of an EMS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-03928-4

9786611039288

0-08-050760-3

OCLC:

476101276