Toulouse, from 18th to 19th September 2001

What Environmental
Management System are
(EMS)?

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 What is an EMS ?

Environment management system.

An organisation to improve environmental

performances and to be recognized as durable
development actor.
 Who is concerned? A site or an industrial group, a local
administration, but also provider of services.
 It is a company or an organism label.

 It is not a product label.

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 Continual improvement ?

Environmental performances are :

 Physical aspect, connected to a measurable characteristic,
which can damage the environment.

 Organizational aspect, connected to the efficiency of this

one to overcome those effects.

 Economical aspect, connected to the efficiency of

measures employed to reduce the environment effects.
Be careful : Uninterrupted improvement is not an unique question
of mgNM3 or mg/l.

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 Continual improvement ?

Based on Deming Cycle (PDCA).

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 Certified or verified ?

Standart ISO 14 001 Rules EMAS n°

 European perimeter.
 World perimeter.
 Activities, products (enclosed life
 Activities, Products or cycle of analysis for intentional

Services (to employ or to use in product) & services (enclosed

the way to realize an intentional suppliers outside facilities)

product)  Inscription on the European

companies list, which respect
 Certificate of conformity
the environment.
comparing to a referential.

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 EMAS Recording Stages

National Comity of Accredited's Verifyer

(Environmental Accounting's
Accréditation Commissary)

Facilities Preliminary
Local inspection
Review
authorities

EMS and Results

Verification

National Organism
of Managements Report
recording

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 ISO 14 001 Certification Stages
National Comity of
accreditation

Certification Organism Audit team

AFAQ, AENOR, BVQI, LRQA mandated

Facilities Preliminary Review

ISO 14 001
Certificat Environmental Management
System Audit

Commission of Certification Organism Report

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 ISO 14 001

Three fundamental engagements :

 Legislation conformity.

 Uninterrupted improvement of environmental performances.

 Pollutions prevention.

Four stages of exigencies to define, to put in order & to

maintain
 Planning of actions to improve performances

 To employ an organism to realize actions.

 To control effects & management, corrective actions.

 Management review.

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 ISO 14 001
Step by step, how to put in order an EMS
under ISO 14 001

Management Review
Commitment
Environmental review
Internal system Audit
Environmental Policy
Non-conformance
Corrective & Preventive action ISO 14001 Objectives & Targets
Programme (s)
Monitoring & Measurement

Document control Structure

Operational control Compétence (s)
Emergency situation Communication

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 Compatibility QSE

ISO 9 001 v 2000

(Quality Management)

BSI 8800
or OHSAS 18 001 ISO 14 001 v 1996
(Occupational health, Safety (Environment Management)
assessment & Security)

This three standard adopt the same shape basis on PDCA schema

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 Compatibility QSE

Common point’s identification

Management of
Management of competences
regular Management of
necessity communication
Management Management of
Of intern documentation and
audits recordings

Management of improving Management of

Tools, corrective & preventive Measuring instruments
actions

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 Compatibility QSE

Identification of specific exigencies for each

system :
 Risk analysis (Environment & Security) idem (ISO 16 949 for

quality standard of automobile production)

 Product conception review (Quality)

 No agreement product treatment (Quality)

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