Environmental Management Tools for SMEs:
A handbook

This handbook looks at the way SMEs can use environmental management to improve their business performance. It looks at environmental management systems (including ISO 14001 and EMAS) and at a number of other tools that firms can use to manage their environmental performance. It is available for free downloading from the European Environment Agency (EEA)'s internet page.

Website: http://reports.eea.eu.int

Ecomapping

A simple, visual tool for assessing and improving the environmental performance of small organisations.

Website: http://www.ecomapping.org

ISO 14001 - Implementing an Environmental Management System

A guide from Ellipson Ltd. Go to Downloads.

Website: http://www.ellipson.com

ISO 14001 Guidance Manual

The USA-based National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research has created a document that is specific enough to set up and implement an EMS but general enough to allow the flexibility for addressing unique characteristics. Includes step-by-step procedures and tips.

Website: http://www.ncedr.org/
guides/iso.htm

Environmental Management Systems:
An implementation guide for small and medium-sized organizations, 2nd Ed.

In December 2000, the US Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with NSF International, completed a revised version of 'Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium Sized Organizations'. Like its predecessor, it offers a plain English, common sense guide to organisations interested in implementing an EMS, using the basic Plan-Do-Check-Act model. The guide can be used by organisations of all sizes.

Website:
http://www.epa.gov/owm/iso14001/
wm046200.htm

Integrated Environmental Management System Implementation Guide

This US Environmental Protection Agency guide incorporates Design for Environment principles and is intended for organisations of any size, including companies; associations; federal agencies and facilities; and business educators. It offers a step-by-step approach to help organizations develop and implement an IEMS. Its simple, thorough directions are clear even to those unfamiliar with environmental management planning. The IEMS approach described in this document follows the guidelines of ISO 14001 - the official international standard for EMS - but enhances this standard by emphasizing continual environmental improvements.

Website:
http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/iems/
iems_guide/index.htm

ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Workbook

This workbook was designed to help Ford's suppliers implement ISO 14001. It includes a PowerPoint presentation, all procedure documents, best practices, and other key components of an EMS manual.

Website:
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/
dep/deputate/pollprev/iso14001/
ford_manual/fordmanual.htm

Manual for Implementing EMS in SME

A banker's perspective from the the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, this guide provides particularly good practical suggestions and case studies.

Website: http://www.ifc.org/
ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/EMS

Model Environmental Management System for Australian Government Agencies

The Department of the Environment and Heritage has developed a 'Model' EMS, which individual Australian Government Agencies can adapt to their own specific requirements. The model EMS incorporates detailed guidance notes and an electronic procedures manual and electronic registers into which Agencies can enter Agency specific information, greatly assisting the development of their EMS. Some Agencies will be able use the Model as either an 'off-the-shelf' EMS, others as a prototype for adaptation. We anticipate that this will save you considerable effort and reduce your initial implementation costs.

Website: http://www.deh.gov.au/
industry/agency-performance/ems/index.html

Environmental management for industrial estates
Resource & Training Kit

The Resource & Training Kit, developed for UNEP by Colin Francis and Suren Erkman of ICAST, provides experts and trainers with the information and tools they need to carry out training and awareness-raising activities to develop environmental management for industrial estates.

The Kit is a "living" document: its contents will be updated regularly and new material will be added as requested and developed. You can download the material in PDF format. Printed copies will be available, for a fee, very soon.

Website: http://www.uneptie.org/pc/ind-estates/support-tools/Kit.htm

Furthering Sustainability:
A step-by-step guide for colleges

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has published a guidleline for establishing a sustainability management system in institutions of further education. The steps set out draw on the Environmental Management Systems standards ISO 14001 and EMAS and the Forum for the Future' s HE 21 Environmental Management Systems Guide.

Website:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/
environment/sustainable/educpanel/
furthering/index.htm