ENVIROXPRT

With increasing awareness and requirements to demonstrate environmentally sustainable development, voluntary international standards are being promulgated to define and assess the integrity of the management of environmental impacts. These new standards are intended to balance and integrate the interests of an organization and society to foster sustainable development... The definition of an environmental management system (EMS) is the organizational structure, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for implementing environmental management. The environmental quality of an organization can be equated to its service quality or product quality... In the same way that product quality is the subject of an ISO series of standards, so is environmental quality the subject of standards for the EMS. There are also standards for auditing the EMS. An audit can address one or all of the areas of compliance, the EMS itself, health and safety, or waste reduction.