Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance
Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance

Author: Thomas Elliott Welch

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1351430041

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Since the U.S. Department of Energy (as well as other Federal and International agencies) will stop granting contracts to companies that fail to comply with 14000 standards, the search is on for any book that will make 14000 compliance easier. Tom Welch, with more than 20 years experience in environmental engineering and project management, provides such a book! Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance: A Handbook for Integrating Pollution Prevention with ISO 14000 is the first text to combine the best aspects of Pollution Prevention (P2), Total Quality Management (TQM), and ISO 14000, into a comprehensive "how-to" guidebook for achieving environmental compliance. The ever-increasing cost of environmental compliance as it is passed onto consumers, cuts into the profit margin and reduces an organization's competitive edge. At the very least, compliance cuts into operating budgets, and directs attention away from the primary business of an organization. This handbook demystifies the implementation of effective environmental management systems as described in the ISO 14000, and clarifies the application of effective pollution prevention methodologies that can drastically reduce this compliance burden.

Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance
Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance

Author: Thomas Elliott Welch

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-11-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781566702959

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Since the U.S. Department of Energy (as well as other Federal and International agencies) will stop granting contracts to companies that fail to comply with 14000 standards, the search is on for any book that will make 14000 compliance easier. Tom Welch, with more than 20 years experience in environmental engineering and project management, provides such a book! Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance: A Handbook for Integrating Pollution Prevention with ISO 14000 is the first text to combine the best aspects of Pollution Prevention (P2), Total Quality Management (TQM), and ISO 14000, into a comprehensive "how-to" guidebook for achieving environmental compliance. The ever-increasing cost of environmental compliance as it is passed onto consumers, cuts into the profit margin and reduces an organization's competitive edge. At the very least, compliance cuts into operating budgets, and directs attention away from the primary business of an organization. This handbook demystifies the implementation of effective environmental management systems as described in the ISO 14000, and clarifies the application of effective pollution prevention methodologies that can drastically reduce this compliance burden.

Beyond Compliance
Beyond Compliance

Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Beyond Compliance
Beyond Compliance

Author: Bruce Smart

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780915825738

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"Beyond Compliance' traces the recent experiences of a selection of companies that have publicly stated a determination to move toward environmental excellence. It shows how new products, processes, and programs - in the front office, the plant, and the community at large - grew out of a combination of community, government, stockholder, employee, and market forces. It reviews how companies set environmental goals, how they allocate responsibility for meeting them, and how they measure their success. Contributors share stories of how they took their message to the public, which carrots and sticks worked and which didn't, and how they are building on both successes and failures to plan for the future. A few also tell of efforts at industry-wide reform.

Beyond Compliance
Beyond Compliance

Author: Jonathan C. Borck

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Government regulators have shown considerable interest in encouraging businesses to participate in voluntary environmental programs and practice environmental stewardship in ways that go beyond what regulations require. At the same time, researchers have increasingly worked to understand how businesses respond to regulatory and other government incentives, seeking to explain in particular why some businesses choose to take additional environmentally protective action even when they are not required to do so. Existing research on such beyond-compliance behavior, however, has drawn primarily on small-sample qualitative research. In this paper, we report findings from a large-sample survey that asked US managers to report on their facilities' operations and participation in government-sponsored voluntary environmental programs. Our results confirm, and importantly extend, the existing literature in a number of ways. We find that some of the well-accepted outside pressures, such as looming regulation, appear to explain businesses' 'beyond-compliance' decisions, but so too do internal factors that have so far tended to escape the kind of large-scale, systematic analysis we provide here. Facilities that are larger and report greater support from top-level management are more likely to join voluntary programs and otherwise report going beyond the requirements of environmental regulations. Similarly, facilities that exhibit an extroverted disposition and seek out the opinions of outside community and environmental advocacy groups are more likely to go beyond compliance. Our measures of these intra-organizational, dispositional factors remain statistically significant in most or all alternative specifications of our regression models. This study not only confirms the general importance of widely accepted external factors that affect beyond compliance behavior, but also reveals a need to pay greater attention to heretofore relatively neglected internal factors.

Environmental Compliance Made Easy
Environmental Compliance Made Easy

Author: Andre R. Cooper

Publisher: Government Institutes

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1591919738

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The newly revised and thoroughly updated Environmental Compliance Made Easy handbook from Government Institutes' popular 'Made Easy' series reorganizes thousands of pages worth of federal environmental regulatory programs into one easy-to-use compliance resource, organized by program. Intended as both a beginner's guide and a veteran's reference, this edition provides readers with a concise summary of the major environmental programs and introduces readers to the laws and regulations programs, key requirements, responsibilities of regulated parties, and compliance and auditing processes of each. In addition to covering air quality management, hazardous materials management, impact assessments, and underground storage tank management, this new edition now also covers homeland security and emergency response, compliance audits, information technology initiatives and innovation, pesticide management, property transfer and due diligence, solid waste and toxic substance management, and training. Readers will emerge with a fundamental understanding of which environmental management programs they should consider and how to implement them when developing proactive, successful, and reliable regulatory compliance programs. Key compliance sections include applicable methods, strategies for reviewing compliance status and implementing environmental programs, and checklists based on actual agency protocols. Readers can use the checklists to complete portions of their company's overall environmental compliance plan.

Environmental Policy for Business
Environmental Policy for Business

Author: Martin Perry

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1606496719

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In the context of the worldwide concern with the sustainability of current forms of development, business managers are being required to engage with environmental policy more creatively than in the past. At the broadest level, business managers are being advised to embrace regulation as a source of competitive advantage rather than viewing it simply as a compliance cost and administrative burden. Irrespective of whether managers accept that “going beyond compliance” is a stimulus for innovation, business managers frequently face a policy environment in which choices need to be made over how policy agendas should be responded to. Contemporary policy approaches may mandate demonstration of best practice, without de ning what constitutes best practice or use policy approaches that give the option of “paying for pollution” or investing in clean technology. Frequently, the argument is made that there are reputational gains to being a first mover and putting the organization ahead of regulation, but the implication can be considerable upfront investment for uncertain returns. Against this context, this book provides a guide to the new world of environmental regulation for managers within business and students with a particular interest in understanding how environmental regulation works.