Environmental Management Systems

SENCON is currently providing EMS implementation support to a number of military installations. The EMS framework incorporates three ongoing loops - planning, corrective action, and continuous improvement. The principles embodied in existing models, such as EPA’s Code of Environmental Management Principles (CEMP), and ISO Standard 14001, are the basis for the framework used by SENCON for EMS implementation at the DoD installations.  SENCON uses the following systematic approach to develop or enhance the EMS at the installation.

1. Management Commitment: The agency makes a written top-management commitment to improved environmental performance by establishing policies that emphasize pollution prevention and the need to ensure compliance with environmental requirements. EMS Framework

2. Compliance Assurance and Pollution Prevention: The agency implements proactive programs that aggressively identify and address potential compliance problem areas and utilize pollution prevention approaches to correct deficiencies and improve environmental performance.

3. Enabling Systems: The agency develops and implements the necessary measures to enable personnel to perform their functions consistent with regulatory requirements, agency environmental policies, and its overall mission.

4. Performance and Accountability: The agency develops measures to address employee environmental performance, and ensure full accountability of environmental functions.

5. Measurement and Improvement: The agency develops and implements a program to assess progress toward meeting its environmental goals and uses the results to improve environmental performance.

Project Experience:

• Providing EMS implementation and acquisition support to the U.S. Army Environmental Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
• Providing EMS implementation and environmental compliance support to the Army National Guard Bureau, Arlington, VA.
• Providing EMS program and training services at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
  EMS Implementation Plan Review, Peterson AFB, CO.