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Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations

Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations is a comprehensive guide that helps with answering key questions to assist small and medium-sized organizations develop and implement an EMS. With this publication, an organization will be able to develop an environmental policy, identify environmental aspects, consider legal and other requirements, and go through the whole process of developing objectives, targets, and measures, along with environmental management programs. Training, communication, documentation, auditing, and management reviews are also addressed in detail.

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Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide For Small and Medium-Sized Organizations, 2nd Edition (PDF)(201 pp, 857 K, January 2001)