Quick answer
- The volume of environmental legislation and the range of technical issues make it hard to cover everything with in-house resources.
- Outsourcing can be partial (whatever cannot be done in-house) or total (an external environmental department).
- Five advantages: availability, flexibility, foresight, cost savings and continuous improvement.
- The model works on a monthly fee with a team that knows your company.
The problem
Waste, packaging, emissions, discharges, soil, legal requirements, inspections. Each area has its own legislation, its own deadlines and its own authority, and the rules change every year. In most medium-sized industrial companies, the environment is handled by someone who is also responsible for quality, health and safety or production. The outcome is familiar: the urgent gets done and the rest comes to light when a compliance notice arrives.
Outsourcing environmental management, in full or in part, is the way to have a specialist department without having to create one.
The five advantages
- 1. Availability. Specialists in each environmental area (water, air, waste, soil) a phone call away, who answer your questions and carry out the right actions in each case.
- 2. Flexibility. The service adapts to the company, its size and the environmental issue in question: from a one-off procedure to full management.
- 3. Foresight. Experience gained across many companies makes it possible to anticipate problems and regulatory changes, and to build environmental management into the company's strategy rather than reacting.
- 4. Cost savings. Professional management, more specialised and better integrated, reduces the real cost: fewer in-house hours, fewer mistakes, fewer penalties.
- 5. Continuous improvement. Deeper knowledge of legislation, treatment systems and waste minimisation translates into sustained environmental improvement.
How we do it at TMI
We work on a monthly fee that covers the routine procedures for water, air, waste and legal requirements (tmi BASIC), with the option of adding the identification and monitoring of all applicable legislation (tmi LEGISLATION), the safety adviser for the transport of dangerous goods or ongoing packaging advice. We keep a register of your company's deadlines and notify you in advance.
We specialise in water, soil and waste, the areas that weigh most heavily in the potentially most polluting sectors. Let us be your environmental department.
Not sure whether it affects you?
Tell us which environmental tasks take up most of your time and we will propose what to outsource and what it costs. Call us on 934 09 80 30.