GECworks with clients to help resolve their most demanding environmental and human health issues. We combine resources across geographic boundaries and technical and scientific disciplines to provide clients with the best, most responsive team—whether responding to existing challenges, evaluating opportunities to improve performance, or seeking to reduce future liabilities. Clients around the world benefit from our unique ability to bring clarity to issues at the intersection of science, business and policy.
The elements and structure of effective management of the environmental aspects within the grasp of the organization need be recognized as key component for change. It is for this reason that implementation of an EMS considers focusing to objectively demonstrate environmental responsibility (in the enterprise jargon, reduction of risk and hazards). Multinational and other organizations accept and embrace the EMS challenge to objectively demonstrate environmental responsibility
The entrepreneurial spark that defined GEC's beginnings remains evident in each innovative, forward-thinking solution we deliver. Advances in science and technology and evolving regulatory, legal, and social pressures create increasingly complex challenges for businesses. We evolve to keep pace with these changes—by adding new services, contributing to scientific advances, or expanding geographically—all with an eye to supporting our clients' changing needs.
The ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard specifies requirements for an environmental management system, enabling an organization to formulate a policy and objectives including regulatory requirements and information about significant environmental impacts (environmental performance). It applies to those environmental aspects which the organization can control and over which it can be expected to have an influence. It is not prescriptive; it does not state specific environmental performance criteria...
Within organizations themselves we have observed that Eco-Management is assisting companies to take a deeper look internally with a global perspective and this is leading to effective changes benefiting from cost reduction (at the operating level) and managing risks, and in addressing:
- Recycle , Reduce & Reuse
- Issue of employee morale;
- Discipline for competitiveness;
- Increase in productivity (thus the competitiveness of the company);
- Propitiating a scheme of different thinking;
- Reduction of risk (a key factor) which may include Occupational Health and Safety.