Environmental Services Brochure

Take Compliance to the Next Levelwith our Long-Term Sustainable Environmental Management Systems Designed Specifically for Colleges and Universities. www.wastestrategies.comwww.wastestrategies.comAchieving Regulatory Compliance Colleges and universities face ever-increasing scrutiny by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other regulatory agencies. The compliance bar is continually being raised and running into any compliance issue can cause significant damage to the reputation of your institution and can become extremely costly. What’s more, compliance problems are often the direct result of limited resources. While regulatory compliance is the bottom line of any academic institution’s environmental policy, our program keeps you in compliance through providing annual audits that guide policy recommendations and focus resources on achieving performance objectives.EMS and Your CampusIn the college and university setting an EMS plays a vital role in achieving environmental health and safety goals across a dynamic campus environment. An EMS can provide a systematic approach to establish a continuous cycle of planning, implementing, reviewing, and improving processes and actions associated with environmental impacts. This approach allows you to address compliance, pollution prevention, and sustainability initiatives that are grounded in realistic financial and environmental targets.Our EMS ApproachMost off the shelf EMSs are defined and promoted according to the ISO 14001 EMS model. The trouble is, the ISO approach was designed for an industrial setting – not for the dynamic nature of today’s college and university settings.You don’t manufacture widgets.The WasteStrategies EMS approach migrates away from the strict, process driven documentation of the ISO model and instead focuses on the key elements of an EMS: the “plan, do, check, adjust” cycle. By focusing on these aspects, we enable you to build a framework that will ultimately allow you to grow your campus' environmental program at the rate and in the direction of your choice. www.wastestrategies.comWe take it one step further.Environmental management and institutional practices are interrelated and require systematic integration. Our EMS provides a framework for managing your environmental efforts in a measurable way based upon site specific information gathered through a recurring annual audit process. We go beyond a typical consulting approach by implementing the EMS program on your behalf, partnering with you rather than simply telling you how to do it. The result is a long term, truly sustainable environmental management solution designed specifically for the college and university community.The EPA promotes the development of an EMS for your institution:“EPA will encourage widespread use of EMSs across a range of organizations and settings, with particular emphasis on adoption of EMSs to achieve improved environmental performance and compliance, pollution prevention through source reduction, and continual improvement. The Agency will support EMSs that are appropriate to the needs and characteristics of specific sectors and facilities and encourage the use of EMSs as a means of integrating other facility management programs.” Source: http://www.epa.gov/ems/position/position.htmOur solutions:• Deliver measurable reductions in regulatory and financial exposure• Ensure compliance with local, state and federal regulations• Provide access to additional on-campus support• Eliminate unbudgeted compliance costs• Allow you to re-allocate existing resourcesOffering long term environmental management solutions for the C/U communityRequest a Free Consultation TodayStart Today. Benefit Tomorrow.Properly implemented, an EMS has the potential to improve your image, reduce costs, lead to competitive advantage, and provide measurable reductions in pollution and waste production.Phone :: (866) 241-1134www.wastestrategies.comIntroducing WS Audit PROFor simple and comprehensive compliance auditsWS Audit PRO simplifies, improves, and expedites the compliance audit process --whether through a peer group or self-audit -- by intuitively guiding your audit team or person, room by room, through state-specific protocols for OSHA and EPA. With a paper-like electronic format, WS Audit PRO incorporates handwriting recognition, integrated photo capture capabilities, and intelligent logic to simplify training, reduce errors, and ensure a thorough audit.• Perform a comprehensive EPA compliance audit process with no additional staff and resources.• Interactive program walks you through the process, step by step. • Receive real-time alerts when unsafe conditions are detected.• We provide all necessary hardware, software, and training.• Offered free of charge to WasteStrategies clients.• No audit experience needed.WasteStrategies delivers hardware with everything you need to get started.Let the program guide you through the audit process.Your data is automatically uploaded to our secure proprietary web database.Our team will deliver the final report to you.Enjoy unlimited use of the program throughout your relationship with WasteStrategies.WS Audit PRO Features:HARDWAREWe provide all necessary hardware at no cost to you. This includes tablet computers, charging stations, battery docks, and more.NETWORKWS Audit PRO connects directly through a wireless secure channel to our proprietary database. SOFTWAREOur proprietary web-based compliance audit software is preloaded and auto-updated to meet changing protocols.DATABASEA custom database collects and sorts all audit data and links results to library of regulatory citations and recommendations based upon industry standards of best practices.REPORTINGWasteStrategies provides professional reporting on the results of each peer-audit.Questions?Call (866) 241-1134www.wastestrategies.comSoftware is automatically updated to reflect the latest compliance protocols at the start of any new audit.