Integration of management systems
Abstract
Quality management systems have become almost compulsory in many branches of industry in the last few years. A similar development seems to be possible for environmental management. In addition, maintenance of industrial health and safety standards must be considered by the management of any company. A main problem arise from this analysis: how is it possible to transfer and to apply these concepts to SMEs? The Euro Info Centre EIC/IT 378 charged the Research Centre for Quality and Environment of the University of Padova to conceive and realise a guide for SMEs aiming at the integration of the environmental management systems with the quality and the occupational health and safety ones. A second tool, an IMS self‐assessment guide, is now under realisation in order to achieve a European validation of the proposed model.
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Citation
Scipioni, A., Arena, F., Villa, M. and Saccarola, G. (2001), "Integration of management systems", Environmental Management and Health, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 134-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/09566160110389906
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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