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Environmental Management

Protecting the environment can benefit your business in a number of ways. You can significantly cut costs by reducing the amount of energy and raw materials you use, and the waste you dispose. There may also be an opportunity to reduce your insurance premiums through improved environmental practices.

Then there are the wider benefits, such as how your business is perceived. Tackling environmental issues can improve your reputation with all your stakeholders - staff, customers, regulators, investors and your local community. While your business must comply with environmental legislation, there is much to be gained by taking your commitment further:

Environmental Management Systems

Considering the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS), or maintaining an existing system can seem like a daunting task. But a certified or informal EMS can give staff, customers, shareholders and stakeholders the confidence that your business is operating in a manner which considers and minimises environmental risk.
Olive can work with you step by step to ensure that your EMS works for you. Olive's services include the following EMS support:
    • Initial environmental review of your business
    • Development of aspects and impacts registers and ranking for significance
    • Development of legal registers and evidence of compliance reviews
    • Working with you to develop environmental objective and target programmes
    • Environmental Policy formation
    • Internal Environmental Auditing
    • Full EMS review prior to external certification
    • EMS mentoring service
    • Post certification support

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Quality Management Systems

The development of a certified or informal Quality Management System (QMS) can ensure customer confidence by demonstrating commitment to effective management. Whether it is your customers driving you to ISO9001 certification, or other business reasons for implementing a QMS, Olive can help. Olive delivers the following QMS services:

    • Process mapping and documentation
    • Integrating QMS, EMS and Health & Safety Management Systems
    • ISO 9001:2008 QMS design, implementation and maintenance
    • Audit programme design, management and reporting
    • In-house Training: Internal auditors, Quality tools
    • Paperless QMS


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Legal Compliance

A simple method for ensuring your business is aware of all relevant environmental legislation to your business is to conduct a compliance audit. Olive offers this in the development of an EMS or as an independent service.

The legal compliance audit can be a method for testing your existing legal register or for creating a comprehensive register for your activities. This audit will take from half a day to two days depending on the size and complexity of your business.

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Internal audits

The development of an appropriate environmental auditing programme is essential for the maintenance of your EMS or QMS and as evidence to external auditors that the business is committed to continual improvement. The internal environmental auditing schedule must be based around the significance of the various aspects of the business along with looking at compliance with your legal and other business requirements. Proforma documents and standard questions are required for each audit plus specialised questions depending on the type of audit being carried out.

Taking advantage of our specialist knowledge will help you plan your internal audit schedule and audit forms as well as identifying training gaps within your workforce for carrying out the auditing in a competent manner.


Contact Olive for more information on any of our services.

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