Business Sustain offers the following services as part of a support package, or on their own:
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Business Sustain can provide General Environmental Awareness training to your entire workforce. One of our consultants will deliver the training, which is tailored specifically to your company. It will give all employees an overview of general environmental issues, and make them aware of the company's environmental policy, together with a general understanding of Environmental Management Systems.
Legislation is notoriously difficult for the non-specialist to interpret, and your auditors need to be both competent and impartial. All companies, particularly those certified to ISO 14001, need to evaluate their compliance with applicable legal requirements.
Business Sustain's trained auditors will work with you to assess your legal compliance and generate a specific report highlighting any areas that need to be addressed. Our legal compliance audits have been praised by major assessing bodies and are seen as best practice.
A legal register details which environmental legislation is
applicable to an organisation's activities, products and services. It
summarises its obligations for compliance and is seen as a 'best
practice' way of meeting the requirements of ISO 14001. The information
is regularly updated to reflect any changes in legislation.
Business Sustain can provide you with a register of environmental
legislation written specifically for your business. This will support
your staff in developing effective operational controls and planning for
future legal requirements. A quarterly update service allows companies
to stay abreast of changes.
Business Sustain offers a two-day environmental management system (EMS) internal auditing course. It provides delegates with an understanding of the requirements of ISO 14001 and instructs them in EMS audit techniques. The course is strongly participative, being made up of numerous case study audit workshops, with feedback and delegate interaction supported throughout.
Upon completion of the course, delegates should be able to:
An environmental review is the starting point for implementing an environmental management system. It will enable you to gain an overview of your company's environmental performance and identify the principal environmental aspects and impacts of your company.
The half day review will also highlight some of the main pieces of environmental legislation applicable to your business and its activities and will provide guidance on what you need to do to comply with it.
We will produce a brief report which will include: environmental impacts arising from company activities; possible legal issues; the extent to which existing management systems documentation e.g. quality system procedures may be adapted for use in an EMS or where the systems could be integrated; and other sources of information and support. This information can be used to develop an environmental policy and programme of environmental improvements for the company.
Benefits to your company include:
How can you compare how your company's performance to that of other companies within the same sector? Accelerate Benchmarking does just this. Through its detailed analysis of your company, a benchmark report will show both its strengths and where improvements can be made.
The benchmark process, facilitated by a trained advisor, centres on the completion and analysis of an in-depth questionnaire aimed at gathering performance information about your company across all key business areas. Once the data collected have been analysed you will be provided with a detailed report assessing how your company performs in relation to other, similar organisations. This information will be instrumental in informing your business strategy and helping to increase competitiveness.
A register of legislation is a record of the health and safety legislation which is applicable to an organisation's activities, products and services. It summarises obligations for compliance and is an effective way of meeting the requirements of OHSAS 18001.
Our service will provide you with a tailored document which details the duties placed on your organisation by each individual piece of legislation, and the relevance of your activities to it. It will also alert you to forthcoming changes in the law, to assist you in ensuring continued compliance. Updates to the register are issued on a quarterly basis.
Our health and safety management systems implementation service
assists companies to develop a structured health and safety management
system to the requirements of OHSAS 18001.
