The Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) at Miami FL is a state-of-the-art laboratory facility occupied by people who care deeply about the environment.  To help ensure that the SEFSC is a good neighbor in the Miami community, we have implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS) that conforms to ISO 14001, the international standard for EMS.  We believe that an EMS, such as the one prescribed in ISO14001, provides a management scheme that facilitates incorporating environmental consideration into our daily business activities.  The EMS approach fosters compliance with legal requirements, as well as thinking beyond compliance to improve environmental performance for impacts to the environment that are not regulated.

It is our intention to share our experiences and our EMS tool box with any interested organization that is implementing an EMS.  This web page is intended to be a collection of documents/links that may prove helpful to others working on their own EMS.  Please browse this page for relevant information and contact us if you have questions about the content or if you have other EMS questions we may help you with.