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Integration of management systems

Antonio Scipioni (Centro Studi Qualità Ambiente, Dipartimento di Processi Chimici dell’Ingegneria, Università di Padova, Padova)
Francesca Arena (Centro Studi Qualità Ambiente, Dipartimento di Processi Chimici dell’Ingegneria, Università di Padova, Padova)
Mirco Villa (Centro Studi Qualità Ambiente, Dipartimento di Processi Chimici dell’Ingegneria, Università di Padova, Padova)
Giovanni Saccarola (Centro Studi Qualità Ambiente, Dipartimento di Processi Chimici dell’Ingegneria, Università di Padova, Padova)

Environmental Management and Health

ISSN: 0956-6163

Article publication date: 1 May 2001

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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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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

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