Our environmental credentials extend well beyond producing EPCs. IEA can also produce environmental policies and environmental management systems (EMS). The aim of EMS is help a business manage their environmental impact through their trading activities and demonstrate this in accordance with ISO standard 14001. Once this is in place an functioning they can achieve this ISO accreditation. The benefits do not stop at achieving the accreditation, but implementing an EMS helps to reduce the running costs of the business through efficiencies made in almost every department and area. The system is managed using a web based software application that makes management reporting and accreditation easy.

Businesses are constantly striving to maintain their competitive advantage, holding their market share and keeping costs under control. EMS is a great additional tool in the box through which these things can be achieved.

If you are considering implementing an environmental policy or system then we can help. Call us to talk through the benefits to your business and the environment of having a robust easy to use system.

IEA is pleased to extend local EPC assessor coverage to Bristol, Kent, London and Birmingham. We have assessors resident in these areas who are able to provide a prompt local service. IEA currently provide services in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. The growing demand for assessments further a field has grown enormously. The use of local assessors is now a policy commitment in our own environmental policy initiative, which is designed to help reduce our own carbon emissions while providing energy assessments.

IEA announce its ISO 14001 service.

IEA Environmental provides organisations with a framework for achieving accreditation under ISO 14001 - Environmental Management Systems (EMS).

Organizations of all kinds are increasingly concerned with achieving and demonstrating sound environmental performance by controlling the impacts of their activities, products and services on the environment, consistent with their environmental policy and objectives. They do so in the context of increasingly stringent legislation, the development of economic policies and other measures that foster environmental protection, and increased concern expressed by interested parties about environmental matters and sustainable development.

Many organizations have undertaken environmental “reviews” or “audits” to assess their environmental performance. On their own, however, these “reviews” and “audits” may not be sufficient to provide an organization with the assurance that its performance not only meets, but will continue to meet, its legal and policy requirements. To be effective, they need to be conducted within a structured management system that is integrated within the organization.

International Standards covering environmental management are intended to provide organizations with the elements of an effective EMS that can be integrated with other management requirements and help organizations achieve environmental and economic goals.

IEA Environmental parent company Independent Energy Assessors Ltd has had much success in providing energy performance advice to its customers and this resource places us in a unique position in providing Environmental Management Systems as a whole package.

Call us now to discuss the benefits to your business in achieving a successful environmental management system.

Source: IEA & ISO policy document.