CSEM SAS is the consultancy services Programme of the College. It has a small staff of senior consultants with wide experience of environmental management, sustainable management, sustainable development and organisational development in international industry, commerce and government. CSEM SAS also accesses and represents over eighty of the College's learning Programme Associates and contributors.

We maintain and develop this resource as a national network of associate consultants each of whom is a nationally recognised expert in his or her own field. Together we provide expertise in all aspects of developing sustainable organisations and have over a thousand years of relevant senior experience.

Our Mission

Our Mission is to contribute to the achievement of a sustainable society by meeting client needs and facilitating advantageous change in individual enterprises and organisations.

We assist commercial and public sector organisations to achieve long-term success by facilitating management of their activities, products and services that will allow them to be:

• increasingly environmentally benign
• of benefit to the societies in which they operate
• economically viable.

Our Approach

We recognise that all organisations are different. The opportunities and problems facing each are unique, given their situation and history. We treat each client thus as a respected individual. Our normal approach is to work collaboratively with businesses to help them analyse their own unique position, decide how they can transform themselves and develop a plan to make it happen. We provide well-proven diagnostic and change management tools plus wide experience of tackling these issues in other organisations.

This approach has many practical benefits:

• Custom-made solutions are based on the real situation, are practical and are fully owned and
• supported by those who have to implement them
• The information and learning generated remain within the organisation
• Corporate staff develop the skills and understanding necessary to maintain the change and facilitate further improvement.

Our Clients

Our clients are forward thinkers and leaders in their fields. They know the value of steadily developing competitive advantage, of spotting future needs and anticipating the changing social climate. Our clients are admired for their innovation and commitment to improving the way they do business. They know that to survive in the future there must be synergy and harmony between business, the environment and people. They shape the future.

Our Services

Sustainability Analysis

How sustainable is your organisation? What opportunities and threats are presented by the sustainability agenda adopted by government and society? How will markets be in 5 or 10 years time? What are the priorities for change?

Strategy and Policy Development

What kind of organisation do you want to be? What products and services will you be supplying in 5 or 10 years time? What processes will you be using?
Where will you be positioned?

Change Management

Organisations and people are naturally reluctant to abandon the attitudes, processes and techniques that made them successful. But to remain successful in a changing world, they must change. We can assist you to design, implement and consolidate effective organisational, technical, cultural and personal change. Change that goes beyond steady improvement to achieve a genuine breakthrough to a new level of sustainable performance.

Developing your own SD Training and Cascade Programmes

Are your in-house training programmes delivering the improvements you imagine possible? Are your people as informed, broad and motivated as you hope? Are current training programmes seemingly costly and repetitive? Do present training programmes achieve culture change? Do they improve system performance? All this and more is possible and we provide approaches, tools and designs that delight.

Management Systems

The last decade has seen the development of Environmental Management System standards like EMAS and ISO 14001 and the widespread adoption of these systems by leading companies. The next ten years will see them spread to most businesses and service providers and their extension to cover all aspects of sustainability. However, such systems may be bureaucratic and time consuming to little real benefit. We specialise in the development of effective and efficient management systems tailored to the precise needs of our clients - systems that leverage environmental and economic advantage.

Audit

Technical and compliance audit are extremely well done by the global environmental consultancies - they contribute to our learning programmes.
Are your audit programmes giving you the breadth and depth you need?
Are they bureaucratic, time consuming and repetitive? Do they motivate and lead to the kinds of changes you imagine should be possible? We can open the door to audit and review that fulfils the promise.

Performance Measurement and Reporting

"If you can't measure it you can't manage it!" What do you need to know to manage your environmental effects efficiently and demonstrate real improvement? How can you explain your results, including the disappointments, to a suspicious public in a way that increases trust and support?

Environmental Management and Financial Accounting

If you cant count it somewhere in the corporate figures, it doesn't exist. Do you put numbers on your environmental effects, programmes and measures to your present satisfaction? Do your management and financial accountants source and provide the requisite management information? We have processes and techniques that enable you to include the information you want and strengthen your organisation's core management processes.

Stakeholder Dialogue

The public increasingly expect to be involved in decisions that affect them. We have techniques that enable you to consult and involve, without losing control. They can make a key difference when it comes to maintaining your "license to operate" or to securing support for future expansion plans.

Leadership Development and Personal Coaching

In this as in other areas, progress depends on the quality of leadership available. We help clients improve their skills and provide ongoing support for individual development.

Design for the Environment/Sustainability

Do your design and development engineers really understand the impact that their decisions have on the environment? We can educate your engineers and ensure that environmental considerations are integrated into your design procedures.

Emissions Trading

Voluntary and mandatory schemes emerging in the US , Scandinavia, Europe and around the world, create new corporate opportunities to cut costs and gain further value by selling notional gains beyond those required in a particular year. The actual results from US experience can be very significant - and potential gains are highly motivating. There is a wealth of research and development from the last decade, providing knowledge, tools and techniques to help you every step of the way. We have the expertise you may need now.

Principal Consultants

Jim Hopwood MA , MSc has held a variety engineering and manufacturing management roles in a major petrochemical company, most recently as Safety, Health and Environment Planning Manager, Europe. He chairs the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Energy, Environment and Sustainability Group and is a member of the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) Responsible Care Core Group and the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME) Packaging Taskforce.

Peter Martin MSc has been an organisational change and sustainable development consultant for the last ten years. This includes three years as an internal consultant for BP and work with the Office for Public Management. His has led projects for clients ranging from the oil and chemicals industry to central government. He is a skilled trainer and facilitator, and a director of brainwaves - which specialises in soft factors research.

Recent Projects

• Introducing Safety, Health and Environment Management Systems to a plastic film manufacturer with sites in Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands.
• Implementation of Safety Excellence, a shop floor culture change programme that reduced personnel injuries by 70% in 18 months.
• Leading for Safety, a leadership workshop for supervisors. See "A New Look at Safety Training" at www.safety98.org and "Beyond Behavioural Safety" at www.safety4industry.com
• Preparation and publication of a large European petrochemical company's first public environmental report.
• Leading the team developing and gaining approval for new worldwide environmental engineering standards for a multi-national petrochemical company. See Environmental Protection Bulletin No.33.
• Developing a "Cascade" Environmental Awareness training programme for a large automotive company, and training the top tier of about 50 managers.
• Development and presentation of a range of environmental training courses. See "Environmental Training - an expensive waste of time?" at www.environment97.org and "Engaging Employees - Environmental Training and Internal Communications" published by JL Publishing, September 1999.
• Developing the first emissions and waste inventory and plans leading to an 80% reduction, for a chemical products division with manufacturing plants in the UK , France and the Netherlands.
• Lead partner in the European Environmental Vocational Education web based distance learning project funded by the European Commission Leonardo da Vinci programme. Also follow-on "multiplier" project with partners in Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Hungary.
• Planning and implementation of an in-company awards programme encouraging staff participation in environmental improvement activities, covering 15 sites in 10 countries.

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