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Preventing pollution from firefighting
Good planning for the unwanted event of firefighting on your business premises can help to prevent environmental harm
What is environmental damage?
Definitions of environmental damage to land, water and biodiversity and exemptions of environmental damage controls
Prevent environmental damage from your business activities
What to do if your business poses an imminent threat of environmental damage to water, land or biodiversity
How to clean up environmental damage
Your responsibilities for cleaning up and remedying environmental damage caused by your business
Packaging producer obligations - compliance schemes
How your business can use a compliance scheme to comply with the producer responsibility obligations for packaging
Packaging producer obligations - individual route
How to comply with packaging producer responsibility obligations without using a compliance scheme
Reprocessing and exporting packaging waste
How you can apply for accreditation to reprocess and export packaging waste, and what this means for your business
How to improve your suppliers' environmental performance
Make sure that all your suppliers are managing and improving their environmental performance
Environmental review staff interviews
How to talk to key people in order to understand the environmental performance of your business
Setting environmental targets
Setting targets so that you can measure your business' improvements from the environmental baseline
Acting on your environmental review
An action plan provides the method through which environmental improvements are achieved
Being a supplier with good environmental credentials
Maintain a competitive edge by meeting the environmental standards that are increasingly set by major customers
Benefits of a supply chain that reduces environmental impacts
Reducing the environmental impact of your supply chain can cut costs, reduce waste and improve efficiency
Work together to reduce environmental impacts of the supply chain
How you can work together with customers and suppliers to improve your environmental performance
What is internal environmental auditing?
What an internal environmental audit of your business involves, its key aims, and what areas it should focus on
Selecting an environmental auditor
The skills to look for when choosing staff to carry out internal environmental management system audits
How to conduct an environmental audit
How to carry out internal environmental audits in your business and how to deal with non-conformances and observations
External environmental audits
The role of external auditors in the environmental management system process and the benefits for your business
Carry out an EMS management review
What the management review stage of an environmental management system is and what you should aim to cover
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables