The issues and challenges presented in Green to Gold and suggested in REACH and the nanotechnology areas raise several issues. The first relates to an organization’s Management of Change structures and functions. The second relates to the EHS function’s capacity to manage and guide the organization in these areas.
Management of Change
The concept of Management of Change (MOC) is central in EHS management systems. The basic idea in MOC is that policies and procedures are established to identify and respond to new issues that can change an organization’s EHS risk profile. Typically changes in processes or production lines are currency of MOC activities. More forward thinking organizations include organizational and regulatory change issues in their MOC activities. Read More