Environmental Management System (EMS)

The Environmental Management System is a component of the overall Integrated Safety and Environmental Management Systems (ISEMS) at SLAC. Our SLAC ES&H Policy shows this at the core level of our management.

Program Description

Environmental Management System [pdf]

Contact

Micki DeCamara, EMS Program Manager

What is an Environmental Management System?

An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a system that helps an organization develop, implement, achieve, and maintain a successful Environmental, Safety, and Health policy. All organizations, including facilities operated for the federal government, have an obligation to preserve the environment and its resources for future generations. An Environmental Management System helps facilities meet this responsibility through planning, tracking, and continually improving environmental performance.

Explaining EMS Trifold [pdf]

Benefits of an Environmental Management System

A well-designed Environmental Management System can help SLAC increase the effectiveness of its environmental programs and strengthen environmental credibility with customers, governments, and communities. An Environmental Management System provides an opportunity to focus on meeting the goals of the environmental policy at all levels, staff and contractors with day-to-day operations in mind.

EMS Implementation Process

See the 2005 Review pages for more information on the EMS implementation

SLAC is required to have a DOE certified Environmental Management System (EMS) as required by DOE O 450.1 (which is a part of the WSS Set in the DOE/Stanford University contract). The DOE/SSO provided the Self Declaration letter [pdf] indicating an EMS was in place at SLAC on December 21, 2005 to the Office of Science.

Executive Order 13423

EO 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management (issued January 2007), requires federal agencies to meet a number of sustainability goals in the areas of energy, renewable power, water, fuel, sustainable building, environmentally preferable purchasing, toxics reduction, and electronics stewardship. The EO specifies that EMS shall be the primary management approach to ensure implementation of the EO's sustainability goals.