Reduce your environmental impacts and manage your environmental programs with Purdue TAP-EES’s Environmental Management System (EMS). EMS programs serve as a tool to improve environmental performance through awareness, training and onsite technical assistance.
EMS Programs:
Environmental Quality Programs
- ISO 9001: Audits (gap, internal)
- ISO 14001 Program Development
- ISO 14001: Audits (surveillance, gap, internal)
- ISO14001: Awareness training
- ISO 14001: “Legal and Other Requirements” assessments
- ISO14001: Generation of “Aspects and Impacts” list
- ISO14001: Assistance in developing and achieving objectives and targets
Indiana Environmental Stewardship Program (ESP)
- Audits (gap, certification, recertification)
- EMS development assistance
- “Legal and Other Requirements” assessments
- Generation of “Aspects and Impacts” list
- Assistance in developing and achieving objectives and targets
CLEAN Communities
- Indiana’s CLEAN Community Challenge
- Quality of Life Plan gap assessment
- Quality of Life Plan development
- Assistance in achieving objectives and targets
Sustainable Green Printing
- Sustainable Green Printing (SGP) Certification
- SGP: Conformance gap assessment
- SGP: Regulatory compliance audit
- SGP: Energy audits (required every two years)
Chain of Custody (Wood/Paper Products)
- “Chain of Custody Certification” through SFI, FSC or PEFC
- Implementation of work practices in accordance with the standard(s)
- Gap assessment
Technical Assistance Programs:
- Indoor Air Quality Certification
- Emissions of VOCs and HAPs from new products
- Work with the company on process improvements
- Assist in Chemical Substitution Projects: Glues, Adhesives, Sealants and Coatings
- Coating Operations
- Atomized liquid coating application consulting and training
- Wood Furniture NESHAP training (regulatory)
- Reinforced Plastic Composites Production, Indiana HAP Rule training (regulatory)
- Dust collection and spray booth ventilation system consulting
Additional Opportunities:
- Environmental sustainability projects
- Waste reduction (hazardous and non-hazardous)
- Emission reduction projects
- Chemical substitution
- Process improvement
- Development of companywide sustainability committees
- Pre-construction site review
- Potential regulatory issues (environmental)
- Potential non-regulatory issues
- Energy related
- Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence Energy Star Certification