Energy Management Audit & Health Check
As the leading authority on Energy Management Systems and auditing practices, we have encountered lots of situations where energy management systems have grown out of control.
Within organisations there is a “spectrum” of management systems approaches that can be taken to meet this requirement. On one end of the spectrum is a heavily documented management system, where there is a form, a template, and an SOP for everything. This type of management system tends to be “documentation heavy”, where you feel you are working for the system, as opposed to the system working for you.
Although this approach can take up quite an amount of time doing paperwork, it has the advantage that when the audit comes around, if you have been adhering to the requirements of the system, then you will have plenty of evidence that you meet the requirements of the standard.
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It is of course possible to integrate the requirements of the standard into the various systems of the organisation, such as IWMS, CMMS and M&T, but the reality is that it cuts across the requirements of all of the different systems and needs to be carefully thought through and implemented on each system, which rarely happens because of the multiplicity of people and skills that are required to make this happen.
On the other end of the spectrum of energy management systems is the “documentation lite approach”. In this approach, the focus is on doing what is required to improve energy performance. Doing, nor writing or talking about doing.
The benefit of this approach is quite often improved energy performance, but the downside is that quite often when the audit comes around the organisation is not able to demonstrate that it meets the requirements of the energy management standard.
In almost all cases, no matter where on the spectrum of energy management systems your system lies, the organisation tends to need to spend days, weeks, and sometimes months in preparing for an audit from an external body, gathering evidence of what was done, doing what was meant to be done, and sometimes fabricating evidence to make something that was not done appear to have been done.
This leads to time wasted that could have been spent in improving energy performance.
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