Cumbria Business Environment Network
Award Criteria - So, what's involved?
The criteria for achieving each level is:
Bronze Award - demonstrating your initial awareness, and developing your environmental policy, requirements are:
- you have a written environmental policy statement that is clearly relevant to your business (we will help you with this)
- you have completed (with support) an initial review helping you identify your business's impacts and areas of strength and weakness
- you have a basic awareness of your legal and general environmental issues
- you can demonstrate evidence of a basic commitment to environmental management within your business eg. recycling initiatives, lighting etc....
Silver Award - assessing environmental impact, and developing targets and objectives for improved performance, appropriate and proportionate to your business and its activities, requirements are:
- you have an environmental policy that is communicated internally and externally
- you have reviewed your business Aspects and Impacts
- you are aware of your legal requirements, have a way to track compliance and are aware of forthcoming issues.
- you have procedures for an emergency incident - planning and response.
- you have ways of identifying environmental training needs, and that in general you have a good level of staff awareness
Gold Award - demonstrating environmental excellence through the development of a full EMS appropriate to the size and nature of your business, requirements are:
That the business has satisfied all the requirements for the Silver award:
- you have set targets and objectives that are relevant to your businesses aspects and impacts.
- you have tasks in place to achieve these targets (Environmental Management Programmes).
- you have appropriate communication within your business and clear ownership of your developing Environmental Management System
plus:
- that within your business you have ways of identifying environmental training needs, and that in general you have a good level of staff awareness.
- you demonstrate that you have procedures for monitoring and measuring your performance appropriate to your objectives and targets.
- you have a procedure in place for carrying out internal environmental audits relating to key business issues
- you have a system in place for identifying and dealing with non conformances
- you demonstrate that you have procedures for the control of documentation and relevant documents.
- you understand the importance of management review and be able to produce a summary of the review outputs
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