Company: First World Business Consultants
Established: 1998
Description: First World Business Consultants offers services in the following areas: Strategic Environmental and
Sustainability Information; Environmental Policy and Programmes; Environmental Management Systems;
Environmental Auditing, Assessment and Training; Report and Systems Verification; Assurance Programmes;
Environmental policies and legislation are changing rapidly, as is the manner in which these are interpreted and applied.
We can brief you on the way in which national, regional and local environmental policies and legislation is likely to
affect your business and assist you in incorporating the necessary and relevant environmental policies into your
company policies, programmes and business plans. If necessary, relevant and appropriate training can also be
provided.
We can feedback to you current data and thinking on environmental issues and current areas of focus and priority.
We can offer you the service on an ad hoc basis (focused consultation or series of consultations) or we can set
up a retainer system where we will scan for your particular business and issue you with regular reports and business
briefings.
There is a great call for cost-effective environmental training for all sectors of commerce and industry.
We are able to prepare customized environmental training to meet whatever your needs may be.
We can put together short (4 hour intensive or full day) or long (up to five full days) courses on all aspects
of professional environmental training and awareness programmes. For example, we can offer 4 hour intensive
training courses for Health & Safety Representatives so that they can include environmental aspects in their
regular audits and inspections. At the end of the course, they will leave with a detailed checklist and "mini-manual"
on the key points from the course as a handy reference. We can also provide more advanced environmental training
and awareness programmes, specialist briefings, and updates for more senior employees and management on the
wider issues that must be considered. This level of training will sensitise staff to community issues and assist in
avoiding the potential for emotional confrontations or conflict situations.
National and International Standards organisations are beginning to introduce formalised standards for environmental
management systems. The British Standards Institute (BSI) first started the process by producing BS 7750: 1992 -
Specification for Environmental Management Systems and the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) followed
not long after with SABS 0251:1993 Code of Practice for Environmental Management Systems.
The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has produced an environmental management systems standard
(ISO 14000) series which dovetails with the ISO 9000 quality systems series.
What We Do:
We can advise you on formal and informal environmental management systems and indicate a possible strategy to
adopt environmental management systems that are appropriate to your business operation. You may even have
existing systems in place, in which case we can evaluate and audit those systems and report to you on effectiveness,
areas of improvement, strengths, weaknesses and successes from an environmental perspective.
Environmental auditing is a very powerful tool for measuring environmental performance against environmental policy.
We have had extensive, practical experience in setting up environmental auditing systems and our manual on
environmental auditing is due to be published in the near future.
We can assist you in setting up audit systems, we can carry out external audits to verify your existing systems,
we can carry out acquisition audits if you need information on the environmental liability of proposes acquisition
or partnership; and we can report on environmental "weak points" that may need consideration.
There are always minimum legal requirements to be met in any business and an environmental audit can be a
part of your legal compliance programme.
Remember that an environmental audit is not a policing exercise to "catch out" the sectors of neither your organisation
that are nor performing to standard. The audit should be a part of the normal, ongoing improvement process that
should be a key element of your business plan and your quality assurance and customer satisfaction programme.
The environmental audit helps to answer the question, "Are you practising, environmentally, what your company
policy preaches?"
The importance of adding an environmental component to your existing mission statement, company policy and
aims and objectives is not only a part of your corporate image but also a vital key to implementing environmental
practices as a part of the process of doing business and complying with the law. It is also a necessity, should
you be looking to export your goods and services to Europe and North America.
We can evaluate your existing policy structures and advise you on how to bring in environmental considerations in a meaningful and practical manner that will locate you as one of the environmentally responsible leaders in your business sector.
It is important to make the changes in such a way that they are acceptable to your management and employees, as well as being plausible and relevant to your customers. Training, briefings and support can be provided to assist with this process. We can link into any existing change process programmes that you may have under way and ensure that there is a cohesion and consensus.
Environmental policies have to be followed up with realistic and implementable action plans and objectives. We can assist you in developing action plans and objectives for your business with time frames and review benchmarks.
Strategic Advice: First World Business Consultants offer consultation to sectors assessing how their business is likely to be impacted by environmental and social issues, new regulations, consumer concerns, and supply chain issues and help companies develop appropriate policies and management systems to manage these business risks.
Development Impacts and Planning: Our staffs have a good understanding of the local and international environment, the regulatory needs and community concerns and are able to use this knowledge to help develop solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders in the developed and developing countries.
Managing Liabilities and Risks: Our work in this area falls into two categories: assisting with mergers and acquisitions to help buyers and sellers fully understand the potential financial value of environmental liabilities; and working with corporations to understand and manage risks.
Managing Contaminated Sites: We provide assistance around the world developing clean up solutions and working with the client as project managers to remediate the sites. At a corporate level, we are working with property managers to devise strategies for managing the entire portfolio of contaminated sites.
Permitting and Technical Work: We work with a host of different on-site operations which can range from an oil rig through to a pharmaceutical site, assisting local managers to meet regulatory requirements and to keep down the costs of environmental management.
Selected Clients List:
- Anglogold Gold Mining
- Chemical & Allied Industries Association Industry Association
- City of Cape Town Municipality
- CSIR (Durban) Research & Consulting
- Debswana Mining Company (Botswana) Diamond Mining
- Dept Environmental Affairs & Tourism Central Government South Africa
- Dept Water Affairs & Forestry Central Government South Africa
- Development Bank of South Africa Development Financing
- ENGEN Refinery Oil Refinery
- Enviroserv Holdings Waste Management
- ESKOM National electric utility
- Hulett Aluminium Metal working
- Hillside Aluminium Metal working
- Human Sciences Research Council Research
- Industrial Environmental Forum Industry Association
- Independent Development Research Centre (Canada) Aid Agency
- Investec Bank Limited Development Financing
- Iscor Steel Steel manufacture
- Kelloggs Food manufacture
- KPMG International consulting
- Lever Ponds Chemical manufacture
- Mondi Paper manufacture
- NCP Chemical manufacture
- Polifin Chemical manufacture
- Portnet Port management
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers Auditing & Accounting
- Robertsons Food manufacture
- Richards Bay Bulk Storage Chemical bulk storage
- SA Nylon Spinners Chemical manufacture
- SAPPI Paper manufacture
- Sapref Refinery Oil Refinery
- Sasol Chemical manufacture
- S C Johnson Wax Chemical manufacture
- Sentrachem Chemical manufacture
- South African Breweries Brewing
- Tongaat Hulett Food manufacture
- Umgeni Water Water utility
- UNEP Div
- of Technology, Industry and Economics United Nations Environment Programme (France)
- University of Natal Research & teaching
Registrations & Affiliations:
First World Business Consultants as an organization or through it's staff is a member of:
- International Association of Hydrogeologists
- International Environmental Science (IES) Committee of Heads of Environmental Sciences (CHES) Accreditation Scheme.
- Groundwater Division of the Geological Society of South Africa
- Borehole Water Association
- Groundwater Association of KwaZulu Natal
- Institute of Waste Management
- Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
- South African Institute of Civil Engineers
- South African Institute of Engineering Geologists
- South African Institute of Irrigation Engineers
- Institute of Waste Management Southern Africa
Classification: Pipeline/Offshore Engineering/Consultancy, Industrial Services
Target Markets: WORLDWIDE
Tel: +264813565325
Fax: +26461210-965
Address: 9 Pullman Str Windhoek
City: Windhoe
State/Province: Khomas
Zip/PC: 4374
Country: Namibia
URL: http://
Contact: Brian Gamanya
