Mgt360 - Ems Recommendation

EMS Recommendation

MGT/360

EMS Recommendation

Riordan manufacturing company has taken an important first step along the path toward sustainability. Senior management has acknowledged that the company has been operating in a way that cannot continue indefinitely without adversely affecting the rest of the world’s population’s ability to provide for itself and escape contamination from harmful elements. This important self-awareness of its own fallibility is something is lacking in many other companies and is something that Riordan can not only be proud of but can also use to strengthen their resolve to see company through the difficult adjustment period as an environmental management system is created and implemented. At the behest of the senior leadership a sustainability audit was performed on the internal workings of the company’s operations and some areas of unsustainable practices were found. The following report will identify those areas, offer potential alternative practices, and justify the cost of the recommended changes.

Summary of areas identified as lacking sustainability

The sustainability audit exposed areas that may be described as opportunities for improvement. The three most apparent opportunities are reduce emissions, eliminate spillage, and reduce energy usage. They are easy and obvious and one might suggest that they are “low-hanging fruit” (Savitz & Weber, 2006). That may be so but they are at the forefront of the company’s wastefulness and environmental irresponsibility and grabbing a few easy victories might encourage those less enthusiastic participants to start viewing this process as not only necessary but also achievable.

Relevant technologies, strategies, products, or practices

When considering ways to increase sustainability Riordan has pointed out three areas to concentrate on: emissions, spillage and energy consumption. When looking at emissions they need find out where the emissions are being released and look at upgrading the filtration systems in those areas, once identified the chemical or process that is causing the pollutant can be examined to see if there is a greener alternative, they can also look at the efficiency of that department to see if they can increase efficiencies to minimize the pollution. Eliminating spillage is an area that can be easily reduced by either a change of handling procedures, new packaging or by finding a non-toxic replacement. Energy consumption is very broad but easily measured and controlled. The first step would be to check the energy consumption of the machinery, the amount of run time that is used and the amount of wasted run time along with general electrical