Three steps to begin with ISO 14001 environmental management systems is what
we've got for you in this video so if you're someone who knows that you're
committed to and convinced that you can make some small improvements in your
organization to improve your organization's environmental impact your
organization's environmental performance. I'm gonna help you with that it's a
fantastic topic not only that I'm going to show you how you might be able to
identify that there's some financial incentives and some financial benefits
and how you can go about three really simple steps to get environmental
programs running in your organization. If you're a beginner you want to just get
started and just simply understand what the three tips are in terms of getting
started with an environmental management system that marries up or complies with
ISO 14001 stay tuned.
Three steps to begin with ISO 14001 or an environmental
management system here's step 1 or tip number one. T ip number one is doing a
Google search or trying to understand or getting an understanding of what are the
environmental issues for your industry one of the most successful starting
points that I've seen across thousands of organizations is a really simple
Google search the top 10 environmental issues for your particular industry from
road-building civil construction mining pipe laying pipe building a customer
service organization banking the top environmental issues for those
organizations and that's going to start to unpack a theme now in the past I've
seen people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to consultants to identify these
issues now you can do it for free in five minutes with a really simple Google
search you might start to build a environmental risk register in some sort
of spreadsheet but at least getting it down as a list on a notepad it's going
to be really simple to identify what other people have done what other issues
there might be but also it's going to give you the that no that doesn't apply
to us the environmental issue might not be relevant for you but it might be
important for your customer or it might be important for your suppliers and so
just be mindful that when an issue comes up and environmental issue comes up from
that Google search and is relevant to your industry can you facilitate better
environmental impacts for your customers because if you can have a better
customer experience that's going to be good for everybody so have a think about
that so the
first step one is what environmental issues does our industry have that moves
through to step two which is what programs what small little programs
could we implement in our organization to improve that issue so or to prevent
that issue in our organization now it's really important at this point to get
your team together get people together that a part of the business maybe it's a
bit of you consulting or going around and having conversations with people
about what small thing could we do to prevent or improve this environmental
issue and that's as you start to note that down they're going to be your
little environmental programs keep it simple and and maybe just a short list
of things that yes we can do a few little things now to try and prevent
that but in the long term we could do some bigger projects in terms of what we
can do to improve environmental issues you may find that that's going to have a
positive impact on the profitability of your business by minimizing costs and
what that's going to look like maybe some programs or plans or maybe a little
business a little environmental business plan for your organization
so either PowerPoint slides or Google slides which is your environmental issue
ten little things about what we're doing about each of those issues who's doing
it how we're going for it now that leads me into step three or tip three is how
will you measure your performance over time, what will give you a clear
picture of your performance, so for each of those ten issues or five issues or
three issues the number of issues that you identified for your organization, how
will you track your performance. Can you put it on a graph, now if you can put it
on a graph that would be fantastic and then if you can put that graph on
another set of Google slides you've got something to talk about we
can report our improvements to our environmental performance. So now what
you've got at the end of this process you've got a list of the issues that are
relevant to your business, you've got some programs identified and in a set of
Google slides or PowerPoint slides to keep it really simple and then you've
also got a set of graphs that prove that your environmental performance is
improving that you're saving money that you're doing great things for the
environment. So those are my three really simple steps in getting going with an
environmental management system and environmental program in your
organization. On our website we have available and there's a link below in
the description a checklist that can be downloaded
for free which has got questions to ask to do a gap analysis if you like on your
organization and work out the holes you need to feel so hit subscribe we've got
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Environmental Management something that's fun and effective in your organization.