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EMS Costs and Benefits
Basic Information
- How to Develop an EMS
- Costs & Benefits
- Frequent Questions
See Also
- EMS: Your Business Advantage (PDF) (436 K)
- Ideal Jacobs Case Study (PDF, 2.3 MB)
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(Note: Internal labor costs represent the bulk of the EMS resources expended by most organizations) External
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More Information
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Additional Information on the benefits and costs of developing EMSs can be found in the following documents:
- Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium Sized Organizations:
- Standardizing Excellence: Working with Smaller Businesses to Implement Environmental Management Systems (PDF)
(55 pp, 468K)
This document was developed by the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF)through a grant from EPA. The goal of the EMS Assistance Strategy Initiative was to identify practical and effective ways to promote, design, and assist small and medium-sized organizations with implementing an EMS. Toward this end, workshops were held to examine current experiences and develop a set of recommendations to help guide future work in promoting the use of EMSs to smaller entities.
If your organization already has or is considering a quality management system (based on ISO 9001, for example), you will find significant synergy between what you need for quality management and for environmental management.
If you interested in learning more about how an EMS can help your organization, take a look at some key management systems concepts and how they are applied in the environmental area.