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Continual improvement

Management Environment
review policy

Checking and Planning
corrective action • Environmental aspects
• Monitoring and • Legal and other
measurement requirements
• Non-conformance • Objectives and targets
and corrective action • Environmental
• Records management
• EMS audits programs

Implementation and
operation
• Structure and responsibility
• Training, awareness and
competence
• Communication
• EMS documentation
• Document control
• Operational control
• Emergency
preparedness and
response

FIGURE 4.2 EMS model

The EMS provides several benefits through continual implementation and
development which include:

• Financial benefits through cost savings as well as increasing local and
international market competitiveness.
• Improving company’s performance and image.
• Reducing business risks.
• Compliance with environmental regulations.

Periodic EMS audits must be carried out to check that the EMS is effectively
implemented and maintained. At the same time, an EMS is considered a
necessary tool for adopting the strategies of cleaner production (CP), which is
the next step towards sustainable development. Cleaner production focuses