Environmental Assessment and Management
The complexity and range of environmental impacts, coupled with the increasing pressures of legislation, customer expectation and greater public awareness, means a systematic, fact-based approach is required to control an organisation’s impact on the environment and satisfy its environmental obligations.
An environmental management system solves these issues by providing a framework within which to manage environmental obligations efficiently and effectively
The following activities have an effect on the environment:
- the use of natural resources for raw materials
- energy consumption
- water usage
- transport
- land usage
- creation and disposal of waste
- discharges to air, land and water, both routine and accidental