Environmental advice for businesses

Business Sustain, a consultancy arm of Coventry City Council's Sustainability Services section, provide expert environmental management advice and assistance to companies throughout the West Midlands and beyond.

What is effective environmental management?

Effective environmental management minimises the impact that an organisation has on the environment and can result in cost savings for the company, an improved reputation and an increase in business. Sooner or later an environmental management system will be expected of all companies - those who get one sooner will reap the benefits others will miss.

What do we offer?

Our experienced consultants can provide company specific advice and we ourselves are accredited to ISO 14001. We provide various services to companies to establish or improve an environmental management system including:

• Initial environmental reviews to assess performance and identify immediate cost savings and improve resource efficiency
• A well-proven 10-step approach to achieving ISO 14001 (the internationally recognised standard for Environmental Management Systems)
• Company specific registers of environmental legislation, including a quarterly update service
• Company specific register of health and safety legislation, including an update service
• Legal compliance audits to confirm that relevant legislation is being adhered to
• Environmental auditor training - and second party auditing
• Environmental awareness training for employees
• Individually tailored consultancy on company-specific issues
• Information and assistance on new technology and sustainability
• Carbon Footprinting
• Electricity monitoring
• Legislation training

Business Sustain website

The Business Sustain website details all our services such as environmental management - ISO 14001, environmental legislation, energy management systems and legislation compliance to carbon footprinting. In addition it provides a wealth of information on issues such as climate change and sustainability.