Business Title: President

Key Words: Environmental Management System, EMS, Power Gereration, DTE Energy

Abstract:
The advent of environmental management systems (EMS) within industry is changing the way CHMMs perform their jobs. One vehicle for this change has been that the EPA and state regulatory agencies are encouraging manufacturers to adopt an EMS, thus changing the way organizations approach regulatory compliance.

The fact is that many organizations without a properly designed EMS still operate in a reactive mode when it comes to regulatory compliance efforts. A properly designed system provides an opportunity to be proactive and strengthen overall compliance assurance efforts. Just going through the motions of implementing an EMS will not guarantee anything other than getting the certificate of registration mounted on the wall. In order to achieve the benefit of strengthening regulatory compliance one must understand how each element of an EMS functions and what components of the EMS put the muscle into the overall system. A compliance-focused EMS must launch regulatory issues into the mainstream of the organizations operations in order to be successful. The objective being to raise the level of attention regulatory compliance is given.