I know I haven't spent a lot of time answering posts lately, but we were so tied up getting ready for our certification audit. I want all my friends here to be among the first to hear the news: We were unconditionally recommended for ISO 14001 certification yesterday afternoon. No nonconformances - WooHoo

Thanks everybody for your help and input in the Cove, whenever I got lost in the process there was always someone around to help.

:applause: Yee-ha!! Congratulations!

WooHoo

WOOHOO!!!

Congratulations!:applause:

I know I haven't spent a lot of time answering posts lately, but we were so tied up getting ready for our certification audit. I want all my friends here to be among the first to hear the news: We were unconditionally recommended for ISO 14001 certification yesterday afternoon. No nonconformances - WooHoo

Thanks everybody for your help and input in the Cove, whenever I got lost in the process there was always someone around to help.

Congratulations :applause: :beerdive:

afternoon. No nonconformances - WooHoo



Good work and well done:applause:

Steel, I'm not surprised in the least. WooHoo!!!!

Congratulations, Steel. :applause: :agree1: Now you can tell us all about your route towards the badge...

/Claes

We were unconditionally recommended for ISO 14001 certification yesterday afternoon. No nonconformances -
Wow congratulations. Great job!! :applause: That does not happen often. I have never heard of it happening at all. Certainly surviellance audits with no non-conformances but not a full registration audit.

Is your registrar PJ? :lmao: Just joking.

Congratulations, Steel. :applause: :agree1: Now you can tell us all about your route towards the badge...

/Claes

Well....first you have to be a little crazy to start with, then you spend large quantities of time locked up with environmental engineers who are trained to elaborate very little, their first instinct is to answer only yes or no, trying to pull information out so that you can understand exactly what aspects and impacts you have.....:bonk:

I can honestly say that I felt like I was talking to expert witnesses on the stand at a jury trial in the early stages. I kept telling them "please, talk to me, I am not the EPA, I belong to you guys!" I had a great time on this project and now am an adopted member of our environmental dept.

No nonconformances - WooHoo




:agree1: Felicidades por haber aprobado :applause:

Congratulations ! Regards, Ramakrishnan

Steel,

I too have not been around very often, of late (work committments) so congratulations. I appreciate the road you must travel in attaining this certification. They can be very picky. Well done!:agree1:

Congrats on the first stop on the track of environmental friendliness!!

Congrats on the first stop on the track of environmental friendliness!!

Actually, the being environmentally friendly part comes naturally to us, it's the documentation to meet the standard that was a pain! roflmao:lol:

Actually, the being environmentally friendly part comes naturally to us, it's the documentation to meet the standard that was a pain! roflmao:lol:
You didn't have to add too much documentation did you? Doesn't sound very environmentally friendly to me - surely you had an electronic system?;)

You didn't have to add too much documentation did you? Doesn't sound very environmentally friendly to me - surely you had an electronic system?;)

No documentation added as to records etc. All the documentation was added to show how the various permits/programs tied into aspects, impacts, targets and objectives. i.e. just because I knew, and the environmental MR knew, and the people closely associated with the a/i, we now have a system where anyone anywhere can look at an aspect and impact, tell what legal and other requirements make it important, how we address it/control it, and on and on.

Each person on-site now has pretty much every detail of any environmentally significant aspact that they would care to know. Before, it was pretty much up to the environmental department to keep track of.

Our auditors were very surprised to ask an operator if he knew what the significant aspects of his area were and he not only told them what the aspect and impact were, but pulled up our ongoing control projects and showed them the exact place in Title V that showed what our requirements were. We now have 400 people working for the Environmental Dept, just as we have 400 working for QA.