ISO 14001 Rookie - Paramedic as Acting EHS Coordinator needing help.

[SteelMaiden]

You are to be commended for your efforts, but how can you implement or make any significant changes to a MANAGEMENT system if the managers responsible for the system don't cooperate? Even ideals have limitations and many succumb to structural chronic organizational dysfunction. I am not telling you to give up, but open your eyes to where you need to focus the effort, IF you are to succeed. Best of luck to you.

Exactly. If management is not willing to do what needs be done, you are in an uphill battle. No management system, and I mean none, nada, naught, stands alone. All need to be supported by your management and embraced by your employees to function the way they are meant to. Especially when it comes to EMS and QMS. You can create all the documentation you want, but if management doesn't make sure that employees understand how important it is, you will not have gained anything. Employees have gotta wanna, and the easiest way for that to happen is by example.

 

[JMireles]

I don't think it is so much that they are not willing to do the environmental stuff (they obviously do...they recycle everything from scrap metal, card board, batteries, even soda cans), and they are very training conscious about safety and fire prevention, I just don't think they get the management "system" part. They whole point is continual improvement once you are set to go isn't it?

All of our audits seem to reflect a RONCO thought process of "set it and forget it". It's like taking 2 steps forward, then 2 steps back. If we were only taking one step back we would still have some forward motion. It is just a continual cycle of fix it then let it die, then scramble to try and fix it again before the next audit.

Maybe I should pound my boot on the desk at the next management review meeting to get some attention on all these issues lol.