790 Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

Involvement

To ensure the company's aspects and impacts are clearly defined and its objectives and targets can be met, it's useful to involve plant personnel which may be impacted by any changes.

In addition, management must support the environmental policy and be willing to invest money and resources to achieve objectives and targets.

Resources may be required to support training for facility personnel, the purchase of new equipment, time for meetings, and hiring outside consultants. Ultimately, management is responsible for providing adequate resources and being involved in the development, review, and approval of objectives and targets.

Management should appoint an EMS coordinator. The EMS coordinator is the specific management representative responsible for ensuring that the EMS is established, implemented, and maintained in accordance with facility-specific requirements.

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