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Chapter 14
Additional Lean Environmental
and Energy Practices
This chapter is intended to be synergistic with the ISO 14001 standard for
environmental management systems and ISO 50001 standard for energy
management systems. Compliance with ISO 14001 and 50001 should be not
only free but profitable and should easily piggyback onto ISO 9001 or ISO/TS
16949.
Remember that Henry Ford made enormous amounts of money by either
not making environmental waste or by finding uses for waste products.
This was during a time when he could have legally thrown into the nearest
river whatever wouldn’t go up the smokestack. The daily output from Ford’s
wood di ...