ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CPD
Check
• Check your energy use for areas and functions within the scope and boundary
• Make sure any equipment you use is accurate and suitable for the
of your EnMS – is it as expected?
• Take action to correct any serious variation from energy use and
measurements you are making.
• Are you complying with any applicable legislation identified in the planning
performance expectations. Determine the cause of any variation before taking action.
• Perform internal audits of your EnMS to ensure that all systems are working as
stages, and how do you know? Record what was checked and how you checked compliance.
• Control and protect records generated by your EnMS, without records you cannot
you planned them to. Record any that are not and take action to correct deviation, determine why there was a deviation and take action to prevent recurrence.
demonstrate that your EnMS is working as expected.
• Review the EnMS at regular intervals with top management. It is always
Act
advisable to review the EnMS more regularly at the start of your EnMS
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implementation, to ensure that things stay on track. In any case never have these reviews more than 12 months apart.
Plan, Do, Check and Act is a simple but effective approach that is easy to understand and to implement and might just save you a lot of energy and money. It is early days for third-party certification
to BS EN ISO 50001, perhaps because energy is also covered in the more widely known BS EN ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems standard. As of January 2012, about 100 organisations in 26 countries had already achieved certification to ISO 50001, and are clearly happy with the cost savings and improved energy performance they are achieving. Perhaps BS EN ISO 50001:2001 will continue to come into its own, either as a standalone management system or as a complementary system to the environmental management system.
l CHRIS BOWSER is a chartered engineer, chartered quality professional and chartered environmentalist. He is also the owner of Blue Rock Associates, which specialises in all kinds of management systems and certification processes for systems, products and personnel. l Supplementary information is available on the CIBSE Certification website at
www.cibseenergycentre.co.uk
Plan, Do, Check and Act is a simple but effective approach that is easy to understand and to implement, and might just save you a lot of energy and money
September 2012 CIBSE Journal 65
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