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Keep Your Eye on the Management System – Getting the Most from ISO 14001
Gabriele Crognale, Strategic Management Consultant
MCG & Associates
PO Box 376, Needham Heights, MA 02494
mriso14k@yahoo.com

With the second generation of ISO 14001 now in effect, organizations and pundits alike have taken a closer look at what constitutes an ISO 14001- conforming system – or have they taken their eye off the ball. To parody the marketing claim of The Enquirer, inquiring minds want to know: is there value in ISO?

In our brief session, we take a closer look at what drives ISO 14001, not from the registrar’s perspective, but from the end users’ perspective, since they are the ones footing the bill to both maintain their EMSs and pay their registrars to certify their systems conform to ISO 14001. We will also take a sneak peak at several emerging “heavyweights”, the WEEE and RoHS European Directives and the US’s Sarbanes-Oxley Act that focuses on corporate accounting practices and public disclosure of previously confidential records, and whether these emerging regulatory constraints may have an influence on EMSs.

From research compiled for this presentation, we will look more closely at some key changes to ISO 14001:2004, and provide our 10 key tips for enhancing an organization’s EMS, and cutting right to the chase.

This session is designed to be interactive, so bring your most challenging EMS/ISO questions/issues for open discussion.

Presenter:

Gabriele Crognale, P.E., is the founder of MCG & Associates, a specialty environmental management system consultancy. He specializes in assisting regulated organizations achieve the most for their environmental regulatory compliance programs, including the implementation of ISO 14001-conforming environmental management systems (EMSs).

His areas of expertise include EMS implementation, auditing and training in each of these disciplines, environmental, health and safety compliance assistance and strategic management troubleshooting assistance. He has also been widely published and has given presentations on these subjects in numerous locations in the US and Europe. His noteworthy accomplishment is Environmental Management Strategies: The 21st Century Perspective (Prentice-Hall, 1999).

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