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4 Lockheed Martin Corporation's Perspective on EMSs and ISO 14001
Pages 32-38

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... The corporation provides major information services to federal, state, and local governments and is a supplier of aircraft, space, environmental, and engineering services. In addition to operating three major DOE labs, it provides environmental re~nediation services internationally for DOE and also some other contract service work for EPA.
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From page 33...
... The second element of the vision is business unit performance such that the corporation has superior safety performance and continually decreasing environmental impact. That is the best way of complying -- to prevent pollution in the first place.
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From page 34...
... DOE contracts, for example, have numerical safety goals and performance-based contracting whereby the company can earn a bonus if its safety performance is at a specified level. Last, the majority of Lockheed Martin's future business growth, building on its core businesses in the United States, is going to be international.
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From page 35...
... The ISO-like model gives Lockheed Martin a common language and a common way of addressing these issues, helping people to understand the importance of this issue in the operations arena. Lockheed Martin has a number of ISO 14001 registered facilities and two pending registrations, all within the electronics sector.
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From page 36...
... It needed a comprehensive, standard management system, something that would address compliance and pollution prevention and would also facilitate continual improvement in overall environmental performance. Achieving Registration Under ISO 14001 After some debate, Lockheed Martin Electronics decided to have all of its business units achieve registration under ISO 14001.
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From page 37...
... Early evidence indicates that internal compliance audits show a 30 to 60 percent improvement following ISO 14001 registration. Environmental performance has improved, some business units are seeing reductions in the number and the scope of pennits, and cost reductions are being observed in association with reduced regulatory applicability.
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From page 38...
... One of the benefits of ISO 14001 is that it tells an organization to survey all of its environmental aspects, to look at what is being emitted, but also at the resources being used: Is the organization using too much water, too much energy, too many materials, or too much of certain kinds of materials? It also asks that the organization pay attention not just to the environmental aspects of its manufacturing operations, but also to the environmental aspects of all services and other operations.
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