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Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001 Federal Facilities Council Report No. 138 (1999) / Chapter Skim
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2 Environmental Management Systems/ISO 14001
Pages 6-9

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From page 6...
... Individuals must take responsibility for environmental protection within functional units and the line management also must be responsible if results are to be achieved. To illustrate, when IBM began a solid-waste recycling program, people were sensitive to environmental issues, but the project looked big and intimidating.
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... Six standards address organizational issues and ten address products. They include environmental auditing, performance evaluation, environmental labeling, development, and site assessment.
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... Line management must take ownership of the requirement to achieve the objective by getting employees involved. The environmental department staff no longer stands alone, for the line management has responsibility and ownership of objectives and targets, and employees are directly involved.
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... However, there are conceptual traps to the process of shifting paradigms. The consequence can be confusion.
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