Strategy for steering environmental work within SCA

A major experience in these two CPM projects (“Policy controlled environmental management work” and “Environmental management at site and group level”)  is that it often lacks a consistent way of breaking down aims in a policy to measurable indicators. Without the possibility to do this it is not possible to get information that is needed to make informed decisions when the aim is to steer the company towards defined goals.

The experiences so far are that it takes some time to find and define indicators suitable. It has sometimes been difficult to interpret an ambition in a qualitative policy into really measurable quantitative indicators, and also to connect these indicators to an actual environmental impact.

The total amount of resources used in this project so far estimates to four to five weeks. The initial work was performed as a work shop with a group of eight persons working for two days, defining environmental aspects of a product system, as the opposite of finding environmental aspects when a production site is defining its environmental management system. The aim of finding the aspects of the product system was really to avoid defining aspects that already were into the environmental management defined on site level.