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Eight Steps to Identify Environmental Characteristics and Environmental Influences of Your Organization’s Operations

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COTA-Characteristics-Influences-WP.PDF (697.46 KB)

This paper provides information to help organizations determine the environmental characteristics associated with its activities, products, and services that it can control and the environmental influences of those characteristics. Determining environmental characteristics and associated influences is an important component in the development and implementation of ESMS programs.

Last updated: Thursday, April 1, 2021
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