Process of enhancing the Environmental Management System (EMS) to achieve improvements in overall performance, in line with the organization's environmental policy.
Refers to the philosophy whereby every system or process within the organization is subject to continual scrutiny and improvement. Continual improvement is the antithesis of the philosophy which says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Continual improvement requires that "If it ain't broke, it can be made better."
involves the identifying areas for improvement, developing and implementing plans for improvement evaluating the results and using the findings to develop further improvements (Environmental Management NOS).
the ongoing process of enhancing SFM performance, resulting from experience and the incorporation of new knowledge in line with the organization's SFM policy and from the application of the SFM requirements. Contractor Manual - The Contractor Manual is a document provided to all Woodlands Staff and Contractors which includes the Woodlands Emergency Preparedness Plan (WEPP), EMS documentation (including forms), and also outlines the responsibilities and training requirements for staff and contractors.
Enshrined in the published Standards for EMS is the principle of continual improvement, which is intended to ensure that an organization does not simply adopt an EMS for cosmetic purposes and thereby remain static, without commitment to reduce its impact on the environment. Continual improvement is the process of enhancing the environmental management system to achieve improvement in overall environmental performance in line with the organizations environmental policy.
The process of enhancing the implemented OHS management system to achieve improvement in OHS performance.
Continual Improvement, also called incremental or staircase improvement is a process or productivity improvement tool, intended to have a stable and consistent growth and improvement of all the segments of a process or processes. Continual improvement ensures the process stabilization and further improvement. When an organization's growth and development is intended, identification of all the processess and development of a measurement analysis of each process step is necessary.