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Environmental Management System (EMS)
Environmental Management System page

MCAS Miramar's Environmental Management System (EMS) mission is to improve our environmental performance by specifying repeatable steps that our organization consciously implements to achieve our environmental goals and objectives, and to create an organizational culture that reflexively engages in a continuous cycle of self evaluation, correction and improvement of operations and processes through heightened employee awareness and management leadership and commitment.

     Miramar's EMS is expressed through this website, with each EMS component and its associated elements "living" on a webpage. This website provides tools for the operation of Miramar's EMS, and is designed to maximize the effectiveness of communication among environmental program media managers, stakeholders and those persons or organizations interested in MCAS Miramar's environmental affairs.

POLICY

The most important starting point for an EMS* is the development of an environmental policy. ISO14001 requires local governments to implement their own environmental policy. The environmental policy acts as a basis for the environmental management system.

PLANNING

ISO14001 requires that an environmental management system is planned properly. It requires the organization to consider the following carefully: Environmental Aspects; Legal and Other Aspects; Objectives and Targets; and an Environmental Management Program.

IMPLEMENTATION

The two requirements for implementation of an EMS is to define, document, and communicate roles, responsibilities and authorities, and to allocate the resources needed to implement and control the EMS.

CHECKING

The key requirement in this EMS step is to regularly monitor and measure key characteristics of activities and operations that could have a significant impact on the environment. Changes to EMS procedures may become necessary in order to deal with nonconformances with the EMS, with mitigating environmental impacts, or corrective and preventive action.

REVIEW

The management review process ensure that information is collected to enable management to carry out proper review. Top management review the need for changes to policy, objectives and targets, and ensure that a commitment to continual improvement is being demonstrated.

Marine Corps Air Station Miramar-EMS