EMS - shifting the burden of regulatory inspection?
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) enable organisations to manage their risks to the environment and demonstrate performance improvement. 3rd party certification of an EMS can provide additional assurance that environmental controls are effectively implemented and build confidence that the organisation is achieving and maintaining legal compliance.
UK environmental regulators are keen to explore whether these systems are sufficiently robust to allow greater use of certified EMS and third party audit within their steps towards lighter touch regulation. Progress in this area would generate financial savings and allow increasingly limited regulator resources to focus on those organisations that pose a greater environmental risk.
In order to progress this work the three UK environment regulators (Environment Agency, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency and Northern Ireland Environment Agency) commissioned a report on:
New opportunities to improve environmental compliance outcomes using EMS
Led by Lucy Candlin and Gillian Gibson, two of the authors of the report, this lunchtime webinar gave an overview of the study, its findings and their relevance to business and EMS professionals.
A day in the Life of a Full member working in Environmental Auditing
In the last episode of the third season of a day in the Life miniseries we digitally shadowed Alexis Massey a full member of IEMA who’s career path took him from working in environmental auditing to work for the Environment Agency as a Sustainable Business Manager, managing a team of Sustainability professionals.
The third season of a day in the Life miniseries is about Environmental Auditing. On our second episode of this season we digitally shadowed a practitioner member Alasdair Dalzel-Job who works as an Environmental business advisor conducting energy audits on SMEs across the UK.
The third season of our 'Day in the Life miniseries is based around Environmental Auditing and in this first episode, we digitally shadowed two graduate members that work within this area.
In this special episode in our Day in the Life series we virtually shadowed three IEMA Student members who shared insights on IEMA membership and gave tips on those looking at a career in environment and sustainability.
This session ran through how to construct a marketing plan – for any type of business, big or small. It will highlight common pitfalls, and give confidence to those wanting to get into marketing, starting their marketing careers, or serve as a refresher.
IEMA Futures held an interactive panel event, designed for IEMA members in their early careers or career changers who are looking to upgrade to a Practitioner.
How can you help your team to see how becoming more sustainable is a win win for all involved and make it a success? Our event welcomed Virginia Cinquemani from 'SustainABLE' who shared necessary techniques to gear up for success with the right mindset shift and fundamental skills of a successful sustainability professional.
This session provided an insight from one of our IEMA members into establishing a ‘green champions’ network in your organisation.
