Environmental Management System Process
EPI’s Environmental Management System guides the company in establishing, maintaining, and improving environmental activities. Environmental planning procedures describe an integrated process of identifying environmental aspects; ranking and selecting them to determine significance; developing objectives and targets; and developing environmental programs that support the goals of increasing environmental stewardship:
- Reducing the use of water and electricity
- Reducing the amount of solid waste
- Reducing volatile air emissions and hazardous waste
- Increasing reuse, recycling, and employee involvement
In determining objectives and targets, EPI bases decisions on the following:
- United States regulatory requirements
- Seiko Epson Corporation requirements
- EPI management requirements
- EPI significant environmental impacts
- Views of interested parties
EPI completes its environmental aspect and impact analysis annually. Each department goes through an extensive aspect analysis considering all items going into and coming out of the department.