TABLE OF CONTENTS (Author's note: There are many similarities between this procedure and the procedure for approving suppliers and subcontractors in an ISO9001 quality system. It would make sense to add the environmental requirements to the existing quality procedure, but only for those goods and services where there is a perceived environmental impact. The Approved List will need to distinguish between those suppliers and subcontractors who have been granted dual approval, or quality or environment only.)
This procedure ensures that when the organisation needs to buy goods or services that have a significant environmental aspect, the organisation takes the environmental status of suppliers and subcontractors into account before placing them on the approved list.
The Environmental Manager (OR Purchasing Manager OR ......) is responsible for deciding which purchased goods or services have a significant environmental aspect and for evaluating the supplier's or subcontractor's environmental status.
The Environmental Manager (OR ......) is responsible for ensuring that contractors working on site, whether in the long term or short term, have understood and accepted the organisation's environmental responsibilities and procedures.
The Environmental Manager (OR ......) shall examine the Register of Environmental Aspects to determine which purchased goods or services have a significant environmental aspect. In making this assessment he shall take into account:
The quantity of the goods or services purchased.
The resources (raw materials, energy, etc.) that have been consumed in the...
