ON-LINE Integrating Environmental Management Systems with Sustainability & The Natural Step November 1, 2011

Where do Sustainability and Environmental Management Systems Intersect?
Your customers and/or shareholders are conducting "sustainability supplier assessments", but they go way beyond your Environmental Management System (EMS). They focus on community, people, responsibly sourced raw materials and material efficiency! How do you use your ISO 14001 program and other Environmental Management and Quality Systems as a platform for measuring, tracking and operationalizing your performance in these areas? Combining your EMS (such as ISO14001) and sustainability strategy development (such as The Natural Step) may just be your answer. In this workshop learn how to evaluate and integrate these systems to deliver on stakeholder requirements and additional profitability to your bottom-line.

Using current case studies, best practice examples, peer-learning and hands-on activities you will:

•Discover how EMS like ISO14001 and sustainability platforms like The Natural Step relate and integrate with one another.
•Identify the benefits of applying an integrated version of both systems to a sustainability strategy through real case studies.
•Create a plan of action to integrate these systems into your organization to meet customer and shareholder requirements, increase profitability and reduce costs.
•Gain proven approaches to selling this plan to upper management & gaining support and engagement from the entire organization.
•Confidently return to your organization knowing how to maximize the benefit of your EMS to your sustainability strategy and assessment.

Official Website: http://www.sustainabilitylearningcentre.com/Public-Courses/integrating-environmental-management-systems-with-sustainability-a-the-natural-step.html