Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

Our Strength

Beyond Compliance is a recognized leader in EMS development, sustainability strategies, and environmental compliance. Beyond Compliance has saved clients hundreds of thousands of dollars through sustainability coaching and other environmental services, and we are also pioneering the EMS tool to shrink carbon footprints and create tradeable greenhouse gas credits.

Seasoned Staff

Our staff has significant experience developing and implementing EMSs and Sustainability Management Systems (SMS) for private and public organizations. Staff backgrounds in Industrial Ecology, Biology, Environmental Strategy & Communications, Life Cycle Assessment, Pollution Prevention, Environmental Law and Green Engineering give us the management, regulatory and technical tools and perspective needed to steer organizations onto a sustainable path. Beyond Compliance works closely with the Sustainable Earth Initiative, an official partner of the USEPA's PEER Center.

Our Experience

A partial listing of our EMS experience:

US EPA:

Beyond Compliance staff works closely with the Sustainable Earth Initiative (SEI), our sister non-profit organization, specializing in performance-based solutions to environmental issues. SEI has been designated by the US EPA to lead an initiative, known as the Public Entity EMS Resource (PEER) Center, to promote EMS to local government and other public sector organizations.

Pacific Gas and Electric

Beyond Compliance delivered sustainability and EMS coaching and consulting services to PG&E’s EMS Coordinator. This project involved reviewing PG&E's existing EMS to identify any areas that may not comply with ISO 14001 standards (gap analysis), and recommended specific corrective actions.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center:

Beyond Compliance assisted SLAC with the development and documentation of an EMS pursuant to Executive Order 13148: Greening the Government through Leadership in Environmental Management and DOE Order 450.1: Environmental Protection Program. The goal of this project was to assist SLAC in completing the EMS documentation in preparation for third party review.

Los Angeles Unified School District:

Beyond Compliance led a study designed to evaluate the feasibility of employing an integrated systems approach to meeting environmental, health, and safety compliance at public schools and to assist the USEPA in evaluating policy implications of promoting an EMS as well as other systems to address health and safety compliance at public school sites.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:

Beyond Compliance staff assisted the LBNL in implementing a performance-based EMS. The process included a complex gap analysis and evaluation of existing environmental management programs against the ISO 14001 and the Department of Energy Order standards for EMS. This concluded in an implementation strategy that was developed to maximize the use of existing systems, their integrated health, safety and environmental management system.

US Air Force Bases:

Beyond Compliance staff has developed more than a dozen EMSs or modified environmental management / action plans for US Air Force installations throughout California and Hawaii. Vandenberg AFB commissioned the development of eight EMSs in response to Executive Order 13148. Beyond Compliance staff also led the development of five similar, but more comprehensive EMSs for Vandenberg AFB and the Onizuka Air Station.

New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. Sustainability Training:

Beyond Compliance led a multi-day training session to bring Toyota and General Motors employees up to speed on the concepts of EMS and sustainability.

Other Sustainability Services:

 Beyond Compliance also offers facilitation and sustainability visioning, training, and back-casting to supply an organizational vision for key staff to realize the potential to use EMS to reach milestones along the way. Beyond Compliance also assists clients with greenhouse gas inventories and carbon reduction strategies.