Unit 3 - Commitment to Training

3.3 Preparing a Presentation to Top Management

Who is the top management within your company?

Proprietors

Chairman

Directors

Heads of Department

Senior Managers

Any Others

The Step by-Step Approach to Planning an þEMS Raising Awarenessü Presentation to Senior Management

1. Give the presentation a relevant title that will catch the attention of senior management.
   
   
2. Start by detailing the present position of the company and the pressures it faces to improve its environmental performance:
   
   
   • is there any recent or planned legislation that will affect the company, recent court cases that are relevant, peer pressure from within the industry, or enquiries from customers, etc.?
     
     
   • what is the environmental performance of the company, have there been any environmental incidents on site, are there any areas of environmental risk?
     
     
3. Then clearly describe why the above issues are a problem to the company:
   
   
   • try to put a cost on the present þpoorü environmental performance.
     
     
   • what will be the effects on the activities on operations of the company, or the products and services it offers, clean up costs and risk of heavy fines, lost opportunities and savings, etc.?
     
     
   • state the benefits clearly of progressing with an EMS, e.g. cost savings, new business, etc.
     
     
4. Next outline the options open to the company to tackle the problems:
   
   
   • what will the consequences be if the company do nothing, or should the company do everything and what will it cost, or implement an ISO 14001 or EMAS management system that will allow the company to manage its significant environmental impacts?
     
     
5. Finally, put forward a firm proposal so that the senior management team know what they have to consider:
   
   
   • list the main actions that need be to undertaken to implement an EMS and achieve certification/registration to ISO 14001 or EMAS, and the time and resources required.