Volume 5 · Issue 9 · September 2000

Contents

Ford Continues Expansion of Its Environmental Management System Commitment

When Ford Motor Company achieved its initial goal in 1998 of implementing and registering the EMS of its worldwide manufacturing operations to ISO 14001, it became the first automotive OEM to achieve this corporate environmental goal. Bob Devlin of Ford’s Environmental Quality Office provides a look at Ford’s internal EMS program, which is expanding to achieve ISO 14001 registration of its product development operations by 2001, its moves to convert environmental objectives into supplier requirements and its efforts to maximize EMS results through supplier EMS requirements and support for their efforts.