SOME USEFUL EMS REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
This page contains references to various EMS guides and other documentation that might be useful to staff in NCCOS.
Documents
American National Standards Institute. 2001. ANSI Auditing
Policy and Procedures. National Issues Committee, September
2000.
Block, M., and Marash, I. R. 2001. Integrating ISO 14001
into a Quality Management System. Milwaukee: ASQ Quality
Press.
Block, M. 1999. Identifying Environment Aspects and Impacts.
Milwaukee: ASQ Quality Press.
Canadian Standards Association. 1995. Competing Leaner, Keener
and Greener A Small Business Guide to ISO 14000.
Deaver, T. 1998. Integrating facilities planning and ISO
14000. IIE Solutions, Sept v30 n9 p1(4).
Diamond, Craig P. 1995. Voluntary Environmental Management
System Standards: Case Studies in Implementation. Total Quality
Environmental Management. Winter 1995/1996, pp. 9-23.
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency.
1998. Environmental
Management Systems Primer for Federal Facilities. Department
of Energy, Office of Environmental Policy & Assistance;
and EPA, Federal Facilities Enforcement Office, DOE/EH-0573
EMAS. 1993. Eco-management Audit Scheme. Brussels: European
Council. Text of Council Regulation 1836/93-EMAS.
EPA. 2001. Compliance-Focused
Environmental Management System-Enforcement Agreement Guidance. EPA330/9-97-002R, Revised December 2001.
EPA. 2001. Draft
College and University Environmental Management System Guide. EPA, New England.
EPA. 2003. EMS Implementation
Training Course. Office of Administration; Safety, Health
and Environmental Management Division. (Produced by Booz
Allen Hamilton, EMS Team.)
EPA. 1998. Environmental Audit Program Design Guidelines
for Federal Agencies. Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, EPA300-B-96-011.
EPA. 1986. Environmental Auditing Policy Statement. EPA,
Office of Administration. 51 FR 25004.
EPA. 1996. Generic Protocol for Conducting Environmental
Audits of Federal Facilities. Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, EPA300-B-96-012B.
EPA. 1997. Implementation
Guide For The Code of Environmental Management Principles
for Federal Agencies (CEMP). Federal
Facilities Enforcement Office, EPA 315-B-97-001.EPA. 2000.
Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction
and Prevention of Violations. [FRL 6576-3].
EPA. 2000. Integrated
Environmental Management Systems Company Manual for Small
Business. Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics, EPA744-R-00-012.
EPA. 2000. Integrated Environmental Management Systems (IEMS)
Implementation Guide. Office of Pollution Prevention and
Toxics, EPA744-R-00-011.
EPA. 2002. Practical
Guide to Environmental Management for Small Business. Small Business Division, EPA233-K-02-001.
Fryxell, G. E. and Vryza, M. 1998. Managing environmental
issues across multiple function: and empirical study of corporate
environmental departments and functional co-ordination. Journal
of Environmental Management, v55, p39(56).
GETF. 2000. The USEPA Environmental Management System Pilot
Program for Local Government Entities. January 2000.
Hamilton, E. 1997. The top eleven pitfalls of environmental
audits and how to avoid them. Journal of Environmental Law
and Practice, Mar/Apr v4 n5 p29(6).
Hillary, Ruth. 1999. Evaluation of Study Reports on the Barriers,
Opportunities and Drivers for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
in the Adoption of Environmental Management Systems. October
1999.
Institute of Quality Assurance. 1995. Quality Systems in
the Small Firm: a Guide to the Use of the ISO 9000 Series.
March 1995.
International Organization for Standardization. 1996. ISO
14004-Environmental Management Systems – General Guidelines
on Principles, Systems, and Supporting Techniques.
International Standards Organization. 1996. ISO 14001.Environmental
Management Systems Specification with Guidance for Use, ISO
14001; 1(996(E)).
Metcalf, K. R., Williams, P. L., Minter, R. J. and Hobson,
C. M. 1995. An assessment of corporate environmental programs
and their performance measurement systems. Journal of Environmental
Health, Sept v58 n2 p9(9).
Michigan Department of Commerce and Natural Resources. 1996.
Business Waste Reduction: Creating an Action Plan. Michigan
Department of Commerce and Natural Resources, Environmental
Services Division, November 1994.
Northern Environmental. 2000. ISO 14001 Guide for Small to
Medium-Sized Companies. Northern Environmental.
NSF-ISR. 1998. Environmental Management Systems: A Guide
for Metal Finishers. NSF-ISR.
NSF-ISR. 1998. Implementing Environmental Management Systems
in Community-Based Organizations. NSF-ISR.
Raymond, Martin, Dr. 1998. ISO 14001 Guidance Manual. National
Center of Environmental Decision-Making Research (NCEDR).
Technical Report NCEDR/98-06.
Rikhardsson. P. M. 1998. Information systems for corporate
environmental management accounting and performance measurement.
Greener Management International, Spring p51.
Sisk, Steven. 1997. Compliance-Focused
Environmental Management system – Enforcement Agreement
Guidance.
EPA, Office
of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training, EPA330/9-97-002R.
Revised December 2001.
Stapleton, P., and Glover, M. 2001. Environmental
Management Systems: An Implementation Guide for Small and
Medium-Sized
Organizations. NSF International.
Tibor, T., and Feldman,
I. 1996. ISO 14000 A Guide to the New Environmental Management
Standards. Irwin Professional Publishing.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 1995. Environmental
Management System Training Resource Kit. Version 1.0, UNEP,
the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the International
Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC). December 1995.
United States Postal Service. 1995. Environmental Resources
Handbook. United States Postal Service.
Internet Sites
Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange
International Organization of Standardization (ISO) Management Systems (9001 and 14001)
EPA’s National Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse
EPA’s National Environmental Performance Track
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Northeast Business Environmental Network (NBEN) (2002)
EH&S Management Systems Center