At the same time, you now need your upper management support to get the people, money, and time resources to complete the job. Also, top management must continually inform everyone about the company environmental policy. Just like quality, everyone must know how their job affects environmental issues. The hard part of implementation is to integrate your environmental goals, procedures, and objectives into the everyday operations of the company. That makes the actions look like something unrelated to the process, or it invokes a negative reaction in many people.
Environmentalism is a political movement that has created strong opinions.
It is best avoided by realizing that ISO 14000 is not environmentalism, it is environmental management, the practical control of items or actions that have a direct impact on the surrounding environment. Once your environmental management system is in place, your job is to continually monitor its progress. This can be done through various means, but in general there will be daily measurement of the measurable impacts and an annual audit of the system in general. This process of monitoring will alert you to conditions that require corrective actions. It will also point out where real improvements have been made.