BS 8901 - Sustainability for the events industry
18 Sep 2008 10:30
BSI Management Systems would like to invite you to attend our 'BS 8901 -Sustainability for the Events Industry' webinar at no cost.
BS 8901 - Sustainable Events Management System provides a framework for sustainable event management to ensure that there is an enduring, balanced approach to economic activity, environmental responsibility and social progress. This framework allows both event organisers and suppliers to the event industry to understand and control their significant economic, social and environmental impacts, reduce the risk of potentially costly accidents and incidents, ensure compliance with relevant legislation and continually improve the sustainability of their business operations.
This webinar will cover an introduction on BS 8901 for management and staff needing a strategic overview of Sustainable Event Management and will cover such topics as:
- An introduction to the Sustainable Event Management System
- The phases of sustainable event management
- The benefits of implementing an Environmental Management System
- The certification process
Who should attend?
- Environmental managers
- Quality managers
- Health & Safety managers
- Those who commission and have overall responsibility for running events
- Event organisers
- Suppliers to the event industry such as representatives from
- venues
- event caterers
- exhibition stand builders
- lighting and sound engineers providing support to events
- carpeting providers
About the speaker: Vicki Gomersall
Vicki specialises in the areas of Environmental Management Systems and Health and Safety Management Systems. Vicki has been a Product Marketing Manager for the past 2 and a half years. With the exception of a couple of years in industry as a Quality Manager, Vicki has been in the assessment and certification business for the past 17 years, 3 of which were spent as a BSI Client Manager assessing organisations in the service sector to ISO 9001.
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