Many organisations have externally imposed requirements concerning their energy use. These will include local and national laws and corporate or customer requirements. In order to manage your energy effectively you need to be aware of these requirements and to ensure that you comply with them.
How to implement
It is recommended that these requirements be reviewed regularly (perhaps every three or six months) and plans be put in place to ensure compliance with them.
The following is a list of examples that might help you to carry out a review of these items:
Building regulations might include requirements for insulation of building fabric.
If the organisation is based in Europe it may be subject to many EU directives including the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) and the Energy Efficiency Directive.
You may need to send regular reports of energy use for corporate management purposes. Specific customers may require statements of your approach to energy and carbon emission management.
The government may have requirements to report energy intensity factors, appoint appropriately trained energy manager, conduct energy assessment, submit energy management plans and/or other energy related actions.
By putting together a list of all these requirements it will make it easier to comply with the requirements and it may also make it easier to plan reports which have similar content for differing authorities.
The legal worksheet includes the following headings;
Identifier (ID); a running number to help identify each requirement.
Title of the requirement; the name of the requirement
Category: your own specification. In our example we use it to identify legal, corporate or other.
Date identified.
Relevant; Y or N, does this item require action or monitoring.
What is affected by this requirement? What process, machine, site or other is affected by this requirement.
Action required; a short description of the impact and how it will be complied with.
Resp.; who is responsible for the action items
Action date; when will the action be completed.
Compliance date; when was the action completed.
Is further action required? Or does it need to be checked again in the future?
Note that this worksheet will be in regular use as you develop and improve your EnMS and will be checked for compliance.
When evaluating energy saving opportunities, in some cases you need to be aware of any laws which might affect your decisions. For example, there are minimum light levels required by law in most countries.
What is this?
Many organisations have externally imposed requirements concerning their energy use. These will include local and national laws and corporate or customer requirements. In order to manage your energy effectively you need to be aware of these requirements and to ensure that you comply with them.
How to implement
It is recommended that these requirements be reviewed regularly (perhaps every three or six months) and plans be put in place to ensure compliance with them.
The following is a list of examples that might help you to carry out a review of these items:
The legal worksheet includes the following headings;
Note that this worksheet will be in regular use as you develop and improve your EnMS and will be checked for compliance.
When evaluating energy saving opportunities, in some cases you need to be aware of any laws which might affect your decisions. For example, there are minimum light levels required by law in most countries.