This document discusses various environmental management tools and techniques used by companies to improve their environmental performance, including environmental management systems, environmental auditing, environmental labeling, life cycle assessment, and environmental policies. It provides details on environmental auditing which checks if a company is following best practices for waste management. Environmental labeling can be used as a marketing tool by indicating which products are least harmful to the environment within their product group. The document also briefly mentions other tools like public participation, environmental impact assessments, and social and biodiversity impact assessments.

1. ADVANCED SAFETY
MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
ZEEL J. PATEL
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2. INTRODUCTION

3. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
• How does a firm/company put into service environmental
management?
1. Environmental management systems
2. Environmental auditing
3. Environmental labelling
4. Life cycle assessment
5. Environmental indicators
6. Environmental policies
7. Eco-balances
8. Environmental reporting
9. Environmental charters

4. EMS ISO 14001:2015

6. ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING
• Environmental auditing is a tool for checking whether a firm or an organization is
doing what it should be doing.
• An environmental audit will tell a firm or an organization whether its waste
management practices (i.e. what it is doing) conform with the industry sector best
practice guidelines it has committed itself to following (i.e. what it should be
doing).

7. ENVIRONMENTAL LABELING
• Environmental labeling schemes award an environmental label to those products
that are judged to be less harmful to the environment than others within the
same product group. Hence environmental labels can be used as marketing tools
as they signify that a product is one of the least environmentally harmful products
in its group.

9. LIFE CYCLE ASSSEMENT

10. OTHER BEST KNOWN ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND PROCESSES
• The other best-known environmental management and
environmental performance improvement tools are :
1. Public Participation
2. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
3. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
4. Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
5. Biodiversity Impact Assessment (BIA)