Abstract: . . .  environmental aspects These essential items significantly expand the context in which an EMS operates and stress, more so than a QMS, an emphasis on measures that will ultimately lead to continual improvement of overall environmental performance. Conclusion: Documenting an EMS Documenting an ISO 14001 EMS requires significant attention to those operational details that influence environmental protection and prevention of pollution while achieving business and economic goals. This entails specific attention to studying environmental aspects and . . .
. . .  possesses or acquires the help of personnel resources that not only understand documentation of generic management systems but also have the environmental experience to ensure continual improvement of overall environmental performance. In short, one can fairly argue that an ISO 9000 audit is essentially a system audit and that one can assess the existence of a documented quality management system apart from the contexts of the system. An environmental management system, on the other hand, cannot be evaluated apart from its contexts, and the . . .
. . .  continual improvement of overall environmental performance. This focus represents a significant difference from an ISO 9001 quality management system. This difference demonstrates that it is not sufficient to consider ISO 9001 conformance as adequate preparation for ISO 14001 conformance or registration. EMS requires a level of technical consideration of performance which is absent from QMS. Any organization planning to document and implement an environmental management system should ensure that it possesses or acquires the help of personnel . . .
. . .  contexts of the system. An environmental management system, on the other hand, cannot be evaluated apart from its contexts, and the effectiveness of its procedures cannot be ignored by either the implementing or the auditing organization. This article is reprinted from The Environmental Management Report, March 1997 issue and is reprinted with permission from the McGraw-Hill Companies of Fairfax, Virginia. © 1997 STAT-A-MATRIX. All rights reserved.  . . .
. . .  system. An environmental management system, on the other hand, cannot be evaluated apart from its contexts, and the effectiveness of its procedures cannot be ignored by either the implementing or the auditing organization. This article is reprinted from The Environmental Management Report, March 1997 issue and is reprinted with permission from the McGraw-Hill Companies of Fairfax, Virginia. © 1997 STAT-A-MATRIX. All rights reserved.  . . .
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