Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme for SMEsSmall, Clean and Competitive

Name: Hackefors Model
Region: Nationwide
Country: Sweden
Type of initiative: Network Supply chain approaches
Sector: clusters of SMEs. Usually, participating companies belong to the same industry sector or to the same company group - Cross sector
Organisations involved in initiative: A private company, Altea AB, first applied the initiative in its district – Hackefors. Now Altea has spread it to other districts, where it acts as consultant and coordinator, selling the model as a service.
Type of funding: Private/ SME support organisation

Description

The initiative aims to provide compliance assistance and improvement in the environmental performances of businesses through the adoption of the ISO 14001 standard environmental management system (EMS).

The model is a network approach to EMS implementation. All participating companies appoint an environmental manager and together form the EMS group. From this group a steering committee is selected and a central coordinator appointed. The coordinator is responsible for the network and the common parts of the system, including common documentation. he acts as the environmental manager of the group.

Each business develops its own EMS, although a large part of the documentation is identical for all companies (the EMS manual). Centralised handling and steering of many of the EMS documents saves the SMEs much administrative work. The approach involves monthly meetings with homework, training for environmental managers and employees as well as dedicated enterprise visits.

Contact details

Address: Altea AB
581 02 Linkköping
Tel: (+46) 013 16 30 30
Fax: (+46) 013 16 30 34
Email: info@altea.se
Web: www.altea.se/?pageid=5

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