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" Establishes bond of trust between Battelle organizations and local
community members, opinion leaders, DOE, EPA, local and state regulators.
* Facilitates culture change amongst all staff and managers, elevating
responsibility and accountability for environmental performance.
. Systematic "Due diligence" processes identify environmental
hazards/liabilities associated with property acquisitions and divestitures,
directly affecting prices, long term operational & development costs.
* Influences strategic business investments to more profitable and
environmentally-benign activities.
o ISO 14001 certification is more effective than voluntary programs (VPP,
Responsible Care, and Industrial Environmental programs, ie., 33/50 P2) in
achieving improved performance. Underlying reasons for ISO success is
its focus on "process" (versus output), thus more likely to change underlying
processes to make them more efficient, and independent certification, thus
organization more likely to take this approach more seriously.
" Reduced environmental risk profile coupled with active Pollution Prevention
Program focused on reducing applicability of regulatory requirements,
enables larger percentage of research dollars to go directly to scientific
programs.
. After successful negotiation with DOE, potential to eliminate the applicability
of several DOE Orders to the environmental programs/activities at BNL, as
ISO 14001 encompasses these basic requirements, or at a minimum enables
BNL to assert that it complies with these Orders. Examples of such DOE
orders include:
. O 251.1A Directives System
* P 450.4 Safety Management System Policy
. O 440.1 Worker Protection Management for DOE Federal and Contractor
Employees
. O 200.1 Information Management Program
. O 231.1 Environment, Safety, and Health Reporting
* O 470.2A Security and Emergency Management Independent Oversight
and Performance Assurance Program
" O 414.1A Quality Assurance
. O 413.3 Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital
Assets
. 5400.1 General Environmental Protection Program
. 5480.20A Personnel Selection, Qualification, and Training Requirements
for DOE Nuclear Facilities
. O 151.1A Comprehensive Emergency Management System
. P 413.1 Program and Project Management Policy for the Planning,
Programming, Budgeting, and Acquisition of Capital Assets
* Progress toward ISO implementation/certification influenced by the following
success factors: size of organization (larger organizations more successful),
nature of ownership (foreign-owned org more successful); success with
QS9000 or ISO 9000 certification, success implementation of TQM systems,
degree to which cross functional teams/programs used.
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BRIGGS,S.L.K. ISO 14001 EMS VALUE PROPOSITION., article, November 6, 2001; Upton, New York. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc735805/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.