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After 50 years of statistical study, Edward Denning, founder of the Total Quality Movement, discovered that in every process there is a beginning and an end. He pointed out that if you focus on the first 15% of the process and get it right, the next 85% will follow.
Enviro Action’s Module 1 is about building a thorough foundation for your management system – or getting that first 15% carefully thought through and done right so that the rest of the system follows. This is why you will find that a system built on a good foundation actually saves money and increases your profits.
Typically when businesses develop procedures to help them manage their business better they often written without the initial planning being in place and in fact they are starting in the middle of the process. But to be truly effective, these procedures need to be based on a thorough scoping of all activities and the risks involved.
Often procedures are a “scattergun” approach to cover all sorts of things that are not even a risk, or that your competent people know and do. Some times they are even written and put on the shelf to stay there ignored.
The step by step process in module 1 results in identifying the list of resources you need to manage your risks and target your procedures and schedules (training, maintenance etc) so that they are straightforward and easy tools they your people use to manage the risks.
Some of you many want to find our more about how I help by reading http://www.enviroaction.com.au/thank-you.html
The next group EMS course starts on February 14th. You may choose to do either 2 or 3 modules. Some people may choose to try it out with a Home Study version – the same material but no coaching or support for only $179 a module. If you want to upgrade to the coached version you can easily do so with your previous payment discounted fully from the coached course.
PS. At the moment Australian primary producers can get 65% subsidy on Enviro Action's ISO 14001 from FarmBis. BUT Labour stated they will not continue to support it beyond June '08. To make this huge saving, you must start urgently and complete your training by mid June.
If you are a primary producer, the FarmBis reduces the 2 module course to only $525 which is not much more than two home study modules. ISO 14001 $787.50. Both are after FarmBis subsidy and GST ex.
Get your fr*ee book, “Reduce Your Carbon Footprint” here and I am asking you to help me with a few suggestions so that I can serve you better.
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Computers and electronic equipment including TVs, videos, phones etc etc etc are responsible for large abouts of greenhouse emissions and, although we only use them for a few hours each day, they are often left on 24hours, 365 days a year.
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Here are the links to the latest articles on the Enviro Jean Blog
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to clarify legal obligations under the Trade Practices Act for businesses involved in carbon offset activities.
There is a need for a single standard to limit confusion and misleading behaviour in the emerging market. Read more..............
Business emissions data not up to standard
A new survey showed that only 2% of Australia’s largest companies have a high level of confidence in their company’s greenhouse emissions data and 36% have no data about their business emissions at all. Read more........
From a commercial viewpoint - Why Go Green?
It is a fact - Management systems save money! They build in efficiency, reduce problems, plan to minimise the effect of emergencies and build in evidence of legislative compliance. Consumers want to buy from green business - so long as it does not cost more. Read More.....
What Can People Make Biofuels From? Food Seems Madness
Our food prices are going up partly due to the drought, partly due to the increased cost of oil used in production and transport but also because grains are being diverted from food to biofuels. If this is a problem to consumers in the affluent countries – just think about the impact on those people who live in the third world! This is MADNESS!
Apparently people are clearing tree covered land to grow grain as well. Read more.....
Thinking Outside the Square
Albert Einstein once said “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”. Applying this to today’s sustainability challenge would read “we are not going to rebalance the economy and ecology using economic decision support tools like cost benefit analysis, regardless of how ‘rigorous’ or ’scientific’ they purport to be”.
All environmental problems Read more......
CSIRO finds aerosols affect weather
The CSIRO has discovered the rise of pollution in the atmosphere is forcing a change in ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere, in turn affecting our region’s weather systems. Read more.....
What About Plastic Bags?
The Australian Minister For Environment, Peter Garret, has suggested that they be banned by the end of the year. Outcry from retailers!50% of consumers bring their own bags and don’t use the plastic ones. The big issue for me is remembering to carry them up from the car. I keep enough bags in the car to cope with forgetting to take them back to the car from the house. Read More.....
Extending this subject - what about stock feed and fertilizer bags?
Kindest regards
Jean Cannon
Helping business build effective management systems to save money and grow
It is easy to be green
Winner 2007 South Australian Seafood Industry Training Award in recognition of training excellence
For more information or suggestions about how I can serve you better,
please contact me on jean@enviroaction.com.au.
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