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Environmental aspects in office

I am rewriting the QMS of a small engineering company, transferring it from ISO 9001:2008 to the Integrated ISO 9001/14001 using your templates. The templates function well and are relatively easy to use. What troubles me is defining the environmental aspects for such a company. The engineers work in the office and not in the field and the work is done here in the office. I cannot see environmental aspects of any significance in our daily work. Focusing on environmental solutions in our design that will help our customers fulfill environmental sustainability is what we try to do and advising them of alternative solutions when we see the opportunity to do so-that we do as well. So perhaps you can give me a hint about the environmental aspects I should focus on.
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Strahinja Stojanovic Apr 19, 2016

One more thing. Our main activity is designing high voltage installations and system analysis of power systems. I cannot see how the Procedure of Production & Services apply to us as we do not produce anything. Maybe I am on the wrong track here and hopefully you can give me a hi nt that help me with this issue.

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Since you are involved only in the office work, only environmental aspect related to your business are waste papers, toners for printers and other electronic waste. In case when there are no significant aspects in your company, you will have to define some insignificant environmental aspects as significant only because without significant environmental aspect you simply can't ave environmental management system. For more information, see: How to identify environmental aspects in your office using ISO 14001 https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2015/05/18/how-to-identify-environmental-aspects-in-your-office-using-iso-14001/

You are right, basically your main process is design and development and not production. In this case, you can use only Procedure for Design and Development but you need to add the reference documents from Procedure for Production and Service Provision and the part about customer property if you use any during your processes.

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