Health, Safety and Environment Committee
Subject: Environmental Review - Briefing
Origin: C M
Purpose of the report
This report is provided for
information
Action required
None
Background
A number of environmental
management standards are in existence such as ISO 1401 and Eco – Campus
but so far
It is recognised however that
there are benefits in reviewing performance against such benchmarks to
establish areas of strength and weakness.
To this end an external review was
arranged and Corporate Risk Systems were selected to carry out this
review. The reference standard for the analysis was Good
Practice and ISO14001:2004 - ‘Environmental Management Systems.’
A report has been received and the findings are to be
presented to EMG at the earliest opportunity.
HS and E committee will receive a fuller report on the
findings once this is done. It should be noted that there are likely to be
deficiencies in the existing management systems and remedial work is to be
expected.
Other indicators, such as a self assessment exercise called
Business in the Community Environmental Index have also suggested that there
are areas of weakness in management systems and that a coherent response to
this feedback is needed.
Author - C M Moore
Date - October 2007
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