08 Oct Management of environmental, health and safety issues has changed significantly in the past twenty years.

Pollution Prevention Strategies

Management of environmental, health and safety issues has changed significantly in the past twenty years. The emergence of voluntary standards and codes of conduct, including international standards, coupled with the need to manage costs and limited resources has resulted in a trend to move beyond regulatory compliance. Now, companies work toward sustainability using integrated environmental, health and safety management systems, which are woven into key business processes.

 

As an Environmental Manager, you will potentially oversee daily activities to maintain your organization’s environmental management system.  In that role, you may be tasked to perform an environmental audit on the EMS.  For this assignment, you will be review and summarizetwoindustry Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and answer a series of related questions.

 

Part A –Industry Environmental Management Systems(80 points)

 

1.            From the list below, select one of major companies to research.    

 

•             Toyota

 

•             Daikin

 

•             Marubeni

 

•             Fujitsu

 

•             Nissan

 

•             Ricoh

 

•             IBM

 

•             Yamaha

 

•             Mitsubishi

 

•             Subaru

 

•             Ford Motor Company

 

•             Lockheed Martin

 

•             3M

 

2.            Summarize the following information for your company.  Your response should be coherently written in your own words with few, if any, direct quotes.   Document your sources with appropriate APA in-text citations and references. If the reference is a web site, make sure that the link is active

 

a.            Overview & profile of the business–include information about main business activities, date founded, number of employees and type of industry.

 

b.            Environmental Policy

 

c.             Initiatives and milestones

 

d.            EMS Overview – include their fundamental approach, key issues, structure,

 

e.            14001 Certification status

 

f.             What impressed you the most about this company’s program?

 

Part B – State ISO 14001 (20 points)

 

1.            Find an industry in your state that is ISO 14001 certified. 

 

2.            Summarize information about main business activities, date founded, number of employees and type of industry, and date certified.