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Environment, Water
& Energy Services
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Environmental & Social Impact
Assessments (ESIA)
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Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
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Environmental Problem Solving and
Performance Enhancement
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Energy Conservation
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Waste Management
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Water Resource Management
Environmental & Social Impact Assessment,
ESIA
Due to the increasing emphasis on
Environmental Compliance as a legal requirement; organisations and
decision makers have become aware of the need and importance of assessing
the impacts of any proposed project (or expansion of current process/activities)
on the environment, social and economic aspects.
Accordingly, Environmental Reviews are
conducted by organisations to achieve and demonstrate sound environmental
performance by controlling the impact of their activities and considering
all environmental aspects. Generally such reviews cover:
1.
Legislative requirements.
2.
Identification of significant
environmental aspects.
3.
Examination of all existing
environmental management practices
Furthermore, Environmental and Social
Impact Assessment (ESIA’s) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS’s) are
provided by the organisations to assist in predicting the impacts or
changes a new activity or project may have on the surroundings. E.g.
generation of wastewater, air emissions/pollutants, consumption of
natural resources, effect on flora and fauna, socio-economic effects, and
any other changes that may take place, whether beneficial or adverse.
Such studies will require the
involvement of specialists from different sectors to have a comprehensive,
realistic and reliable study. For that, Future Environment
cooperates with a number of specialists in different fields to optimise
their expected benefits for organisations while taking into consideration
all environmental values in light of detailed environmental studies and
public comments on the potential environmental impacts of projects.
Environmental Management Systems, EMS (ISO
14000)
During the last two decades,
environmental awareness among people, and consequently organizations, has
shown an impressive change towards reservation of natural resources and
reducing the impacts of their activities on the environment.
In order to provide organizations
intending to improve their Environmental Performance with guidelines to
build their own Environment Management Systems (EMS), the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) issued the ISO 14000 standard in
the year 1996. This standard, along with other supplementary standards
provide the guidelines for building an internal management system that
deals with sources of pollution within organizations leading to the
improvement in their Environmental Performance.
Being ISO 14000 Certified clarifies that
the organization is aware of impacts of its activities/products/services
on the environment and has set actions to control these activities and to
comply with the applicable legal and other applicable regulations.
Future Environment’s Management has
recruited a group of professional engineers (Chemical, Environmental and
Industrial Engineers) to assist companies in building their Environment
Management Systems, who are highly capable of maximizing the expected
benefits from implementing such a system.
Environmental Problem Solving and Performance Enhancement
Lots of organizations are facing
problems demonstrating sound compliance to environmental legal
requirements. This is mainly due to the lack of environmental aspects’
consideration at the initial organizations ‘construction planning stages.
Future Environment can provide different
types of organization with high level of technical support to identify
the major sources of environmental problems and propose solutions to
enhance the environmental performance of the organization.
Such studies are tailored in a manner
that best suits our customers’ needs and expectations in solving their
environment-related problems in a highly professional and scientific
manner. To optimize the expected gains of such studies, Future
Environment subcontracts with experts in the related field of
service/industry to come up with reasonable, technically valid solutions
of the existing environmental problems.
Energy Conservation
One of the major operating expenses for
different types of industries is related to energy (electricity and fuel)
consumption. Energy Conservation studies focus on studying the different
processes that are taking place (including a Technical Study of the
performance of equipment) and determining the key sources of high
consumption of energy. These studies shall include recommendations for
improvement to reduce the rate of energy consumption along with the
expected consumption reduction percentages.
An initial scientific estimation of the
expected reduction in energy consumption is 15-30% for most of the
Jordanian industries, when conducting an efficient Energy Conservation
Study.
Waste Management
Waste management has become one of the
main challenges facing countries in recent times. It has a direct impact
on the quality of the surrounding environment due to its linkage to the
population, economical and urban development. Generally, waste management
procedures undergo four main stages, these are (Reduction, Reuse and Recycle),
(Collection and Sorting), (Transportation) and (Treatment and Disposal).
Future Environment can provide different
organisations with the support to assess opportunities for the
application of the 3R’s principle or sorting at source and other solid
waste management procedures.
Water Management
Due to the lack of water resources in
Jordan, it is very crucial to maximize the utilization of the available
resources in order not to face a water crisis in the future.
Future Environment specialized staff can
provide assistance in the identification of available water resources and
utilization of existing resources according to the varying water demand. Such
assistance, provided mainly to the public sector, rely primarily on
review of the available information “desk reviews”, surveys
topographical, geological, and water studies of the potential water
resources areas/basins.
Expected output includes water
availability, exploration and exploitation expenses, construction
requirements, delivery requirements and expenses.
Management
Consulting
Future Environment provides a range of professional
services that help managers to analyze and solve practical problems and
improve their organizational performance through improving their
organizational management practices.
Our Management Consulting services aims
at:
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Achieving Purposes and Objectives like sectoral leadership, competitive advantage, customer
satisfaction, high internal and external performance and excellence,
profitability and growth, etc.
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Solving Management and Business Problems through identifying
diagnosing causes, and solving problems concerning different areas and
aspects of management and business. These problems could be internal and
external roots that need to be clearly identified to be effectively
solved.
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Identifying New Opportunities is another face of
services provided by our consultants. Through research and acquired and
acquired knowledge and expertise of local and international markets, our
consultants can assist organizations in finding and evaluating new
opportunities that will add to the development and prosperity to these
organizations in finding and evaluating new opportunities that will add
to the development and prosperity to these organizations. This includes
developing new markets and products, using state-of-the-art technologies,
improving quality, enhancing image, motivating staff, resources
optimization and utilization, etc.
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Enhancing Learning, which is
considered as the major part of our consulting services. It aims at
educating (training) staff on how to manage better for themselves by
acquiring our consultant’s special technical and managerial knowledge
keeping in mind that our services aims at “helping our customers to
help themselves”.
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Implementing changes by helping the
different levels of staff in understating the purpose and expected
benefits of these changes and living with the changes instead of
accepting changes as an inevitable decision or through the common “take
it or leave it” strategy. This service will help organizations in
implementing changes in a smooth manner and ensures the effectiveness of
these changes in achieving their targets.
Management consulting services provided includes:
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Feasibility Studies and Market Research
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Business and Strategic Planning
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Work and Project Management and
Evaluation
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Institutional Development
Feasibility Studies and Market Research
Due to the current economic situation in
Jordan, it is very crucial to well study the feasibility of introducing
new industries or services. This study will identify the size of internal
and external markets, existing competitors along with any expected
exporting obstacles.
Since any feasibility study requires a professional,
specialized technical study, Future Environment requires the guidance and
assistance of professionals specialized in the product/services studied,
who have a sufficient background in the technical difficulties that might
affect the execution of the potential project.
Business and Strategic Planning
It is considered a very essential step
for newly established organizations or expansions of existing activities
to determine all required resources along with the expected market share
and competition expectations. In order to have a comprehensive Business
Plan, the following should be taken into consideration:
- The proposed
internal management system.
- The marketing
Plan.
- The financial
Plan, demonstrating the required financial resources
- Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis.
The Business Plan is to be used as a
base for launching new organizations or activities within existing
organizations. Therefore, a business plan must be based on realistic
information concerning business requirements and market predictions in
order to have realistic, reliable and efficient Business Plan.
In order to be able to provide
organizations with efficient Business Planning services, Future
Environment subcontracts parts of the activities required in business
planning with local professionals to ensure full Customer Satisfaction.
These parts include Marketing, Planning, Market Surveys and Financial and
Public Relations Analysis.
Work Management
Many organizations in Jordan are facing
real problems in managing their internal activities. These managerial
problems vary from best utilization of time (productivity), through
internal communications, to relations with external parties (suppliers,
regulatory bodies, etc.)
The aim of the service provided herewith
includes studying the
entire internal system (including technical activities taking place) in
order to determine the weakness points and possible improvements.
To conduct such a service efficiently, a
combination of specialized efforts is required such a combination
includes the involvement of industrial engineers, management consultants,
socio-economics and qualified technical support
in the field being studied.
Future Environment has recruited a team
of consultants that can execute such services in a quality level that
exceeds customer expectations in cooperation with subcontractors who
shall provide a high level of technical support.
Institutional Development
The institutional development services
provided at Future Environment aims to support the organisations and
clients in several aspects, these include:
- Business Process
Improvement
- Human
Resources Management (HRM)
- Organisational
Restructuring
Depending on the needs of each client
and whether it required mapping and streamlining of an existing process,
development of management systems, development of human resource
management systems or the assessment of the client organisations
structure, process and systems. Future
environment will ensure to propose and deliver to its clients the most
preferable and adoptable approaches in order to enhance and improve their
efficiency and effectiveness.
Management Systems
Among the different international standards issued by
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to be adopted by
various organizations, Future Environments assists’ organisations in
acquiring the following:
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Quality Management Systems Consultancy
(ISO 9001)
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Occupational Health and Safety (OHSAS
18001)
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Laboratory Accreditation (ISO/IEC 17025)
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Performance Excellence in Public Sector
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Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
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Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
(HACCP)
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Conformity de European (CE Marking)
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Joint Commission International (JCI)
Accreditation
Quality Management System (ISO 9000) Consultancy
The Quality Management System (QMS)
series of standards (ISO 9000) is the most world-wild recognized. This is
due to proven adoption efficiency by different organizations and the
applicability of these standards requirements to any type of industry or
service.
This series of standards provides the
basic, minimal requirements of having an efficient internal management
system. In other words, these standards’ requirements provide the
organizations with a system to control all activities within the
organization in a manner that guarantees customer satisfaction, the first
time, and every time. This satisfaction is based on the clear
identification of the organization’s customers, their requirements, and
ensuring the ability to fulfil these requirements.
Recently, and under the adopted World
Trade Organization agreements, it became a basic requirement for
industrial organizations having exporting intentions to be ISO 9000
certified in order to be able to export goods to certain markets, especially
the European markets.
Future Environment’s Management has a
qualified group of consultants assigned to assist organizations in
building their Quality Management Systems.
Occupational Health and Safety (OHSAS 18000)
All organisations
have a duty of care to ensure that employees and any other person who may
be affected by the companies undertaking remain safe at all times. BS
OHSAS 18001 sets out the minimum requirements for occupational health and
safety management best practice by identifying and managing occupational
health and safety risk hazards.
The standard
includes the requirements for occupational health and safety management
good practice for any size of organization. Future environment can
provide its clients with guidance to help design their own health and
safety framework and accordingly set all relevant controls and processes
into one management system.
BS OHSAS 18001 can
also be adapted to all types of organizations to help eliminate or
minimize operational risks and hazards; in addition, to achieving
compliance with legislations, industry and customer requirements. Future
environment has a group of qualified consultants that can help bring BS
OHSAS 18001 into businesses or organisations for safer working
conditions, improved performance, compliance with and new business
opportunities.
Laboratory Accreditation (ISO 17025)
Is the main standard used by testing
and calibration laboratories and it applies directly to all organizations
that produce testing and calibration results. Since its initial release,
a second release was made in 2005 after it was agreed that it needed to
have its quality system words more closely aligned with the 2000 version
of ISO 9001.
The two main sections in ISO/IEC 17025
are Management Requirements and Technical Requirements.
Management requirements are primarily related to the operation and
effectiveness of the quality management system within the laboratory. Technical
requirements include factors which determine the correctness and
reliability of the tests and calibrations performed in laboratory.
Generally, laboratories use ISO/IEC 17025 to implement a quality system
aimed at improving their ability to consistently produce valid results.
Excellence in Public Sector
Using the framework of excellence awards programme, Future
environment conducts its services by providing in-depth, low cost
assessments of regional organisations using the criteria for performance
excellence. Whether based on The European Foundation for Quality
Management (EFQM) Excellence Model or the Baldrige
Performance Excellence Program.
While its
origins lie in the private sector, public and voluntary sector
organizations can also benefit from using the Excellence Model. It is
non-prescriptive and does not involve strictly following a set of rules
or standards, but provides a broad and coherent set of assumptions about
what is required for a good organization and its management. Each
organization can use it in its own way to manage and develop improvement,
under the control of those who use the methods rather than an external
evaluator.
Future Environment can assist organisations with this self
assessment framework for measuring the strengths and areas
for improvement of an organization across all of its activities in order to
provide an excellent service or product to its customers, service users
or stakeholders. Over the years,
Future Environment has been involved in several national and regional
excellence awards. These include:
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King Abdullah II
Awards of Excellence
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Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award
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Emirates
Government Excellence Award
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Abu Dhabi for
Excellence in Government Performance
Good Manufactruting
Practices (GMP)
GMP is a quality
system covering the manufacture and testing of active pharmaceutical
ingredients, diagnostics, foods, pharmaceutical products, and medical devices. GMPs are
guidelines that outline the aspects of production and testing that can
impact the quality of a product. Many countries have legislated
that pharmaceutical and medical device companies must follow GMP
procedures, and have created their own GMP guidelines that correspond
with their legislation.
GMP guidelines
are not prescriptive instructions on how to manufacture products. They
are a series of general principles that must be observed during
manufacturing. When a company is setting up its quality program and
manufacturing process, there may be many ways it can fulfill
GMP requirements. It is the company's responsibility to determine the
most effective and efficient quality process.
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
Is a systematic
preventive approach to food
safety and pharmaceutical safety that addresses
physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a
mean of prevention rather than finished product inspection.
HACCP is used in the food industry to identify potential food
safety hazards, so that key actions can be taken to reduce or eliminate
the risk of the hazards being realized. The system is used at all stages
of food production and preparation
processes including packaging, and distribution.
Conformity de European ( CE
Marking)
Is a mandatory conformance mark on many
products placed on the single market in the European Economic Area (EEA). The CE marking certifies that a
product has met EU consumer safety, health or environmental requirements.
Originally "CE" stood for "European Community" or
"European Conformity". According to the European Commission
today, the CE logo has become a symbol for free marketability of
industrial goods within the EEA without any literal meaning. By affixing
the CE marking to a product, the manufacturer – on his sole
responsibility – declares that it meets EU safety and health and
environmental requirements.
Joint Comission
International (JCI) Accreditation
JCI Accreditation
is a Voluntary process that evaluates whether a health care organization
meets a set of recognized standards designed to improve the safety and
quality of care. As Quality care, Safe care, Continuous improvement and External
recognition are considered reasons for accreditation
The Joint
Commission International (JCI) was established in 1994 as a division of
Joint Commission Resources, Inc. (JCR), a private, not-for-profit affiliate
of The Joint Commission. JCI extends The Joint Commission’s mission
worldwide by assisting international health care organizations, public
health agencies, health ministries and others to improve the quality and
safety of patient care in more than 80 countries. JCI offers
accreditation for hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, clinical
laboratories, care continuum services, medical transport organizations
and primary care services.
JCI’s
Accreditation Program was launched in 1999. The standards were developed
by international experts and set uniform, achievable expectations for
structures, processes and outcomes for health care organizations. The
requirements for accreditation also include international patient safety
goals that highlight problematic areas in health care and describe
evidence and expert-based consensus solutions to these problems. The
survey process is designed to accommodate specific legal, religious and
cultural factors within a country.
In 2007, JCI
received accreditation by the International Society for Quality in Health
Care (ISQua) and which provided assurance that JCI
standards, training and processes used to survey the performance of
health care organizations meet the highest international benchmarks for
accrediting bodies.
Training
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Training (In-House Environment,
Development, Management, marketing and Business Training Courses)
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