Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Measurement and Evaluation In ISO 14001:2004

After implementing the environmental policy, management needs to measure environmental that the data can be verified by an internal or external auditor.
interventions and their impact on the environment. This is done by building up an environmental effects register (environmental inventory). All equipment used for monitoring and measuring must be accurate and calibrated on a regular basis. To check the compliance status of an organization, additional information about regulations and other requirements is needed. A so called environmental regulations register?Eis often installed and maintained for this purpose. To obtain a better picture about the financial consequences of environmental protection, the accounting system should reflect environmental costs. Therefore, information about environmentally-induced costs and earnings needs to be collected. All this information should be recorded in such a manner.er
Environmental Performance Evaluation Accesses Environment Performance against environmental targets and objectives and against applicable environmental regulations. Responsibilities and authority need to be defined to deal with non-compliance within the EMS. This includes specifying the actions to be taken to correct an undesirable ituation and to prevent future non-compliance.
The analysis of environmental and economic performance leads to eco efficiency, the key component in sustainable business management.
The analysis of environmental and economic performance leads to eco
efficiency, the key component in sustainable business management. The recording of physical environmental data, environmental regulations and environmentally-induced financial information is necessary as a basis for effective decision making. Therefore, financial, legal and ecological data systems must be built up from scratch or adapted to the requirements of the EMS standard.

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