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Welcome to Futurepast

The Futurepast site is designed to serve as a resource for management executives and professionals who are responsible for implementing and maintaining management systems. The information it provides is organized primarily by speciality (e.g. environmental management, safety and health management, or quality management) and, if applicable, by sector (e.g. chemical industry).

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You will also find pages on interdisciplinary topics, such as leadership and communications.

Mission and History

Futurepast’s mission is to help clients during periods of growth and transition. Our training, consulting, and auditing services are particularly suited to organizations whose objectives include:

• exercising leadership in environmental stewardship
• proactively managing greenhouse gas assets and liabilities
• reducing worker lost time, illness and injuries
• improving product and/or service quality and customer satisfaction
• reducing defects and errors
• improving sales and profit margins
• enhancing organizational effectiveness

More Information

ISO 14001
Environmental
Management

Organizations--and their customers--are increasingly concerned about environmental issues. For such organizations, the ISO 14001 international standard provides a comprehensive approach to environmental management.

ISO 14001
Clarifications of Intent

The ISO 14001 environmental management system standard was initially published in 1996. Organizations with experience using it have sometimes pondered what the original intent of the standards writers was. To assist users, clarifications of intent are provided by the responsible ISO 14001 technical committee in the U.S. To read these clarifications, please click on the link to your left. Since the publication of the Second Edition in 2004, some clarifications written for questions asked about the first edition of the standard have been deleted, others revised. New clarifications related to language introduced in the second edition of ISO 14001 have been added.

Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Management

Business leaders and government officials in the United States and around the world are paying closer attention to the problems associated with increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, which are widely believed to be associated with global warming and climate change.

OHSAS 18001
Health & Safety
Management

Protecting worker health and safety is another management concern with bottom-line implications. While ISO has not published an international standard covering this important topic, organizations may wish to benchmark their existing systems to the second edition of OHSAS 18001 published by the British Standards Institute in 2007. To learn more about OHSAS 18001, please click on the link to your left.

Quality Management
ISO 9001--The Foundation
for Quality Management

A credible quality management system is increasingly a requirement for doing business at home and around the world. Since 1987 ISO 9001 has provided a common standard for measuring an organization's implementation of basic quality management principles. The year 2000 revisions made ISO 9001 and ISO 9004 a "consistent pair" of standards that is designed to help organizations improve their quality management systems. Futurepast consultants can help you at any stage of the quality journey, from first implementation to application for local, state or national quality awards. To visit our quality management page, please click on the "Quality Management" link to your left.

ISO Expertise
Futurepast Participates in
The International
Standards Development
Process

Futurepast clients are assured of accurate and timely information about emerging developments in quality and environmental management system standards through Futurepast’s participation in the international standards development process.

ISO 19011
Internal Auditor Training in
Quality and Environmental
Management Systems

The last member of the "ISO 9000:2000" family, ISO 19011:2002, addresses both quality and environmental management system auditing. Futurepast's internal auditor training courses are based upon ISO 19011. For more information about our internal auditor training seminars, please click on the "ISO 19011" link to your left.

Visit Our Archives

Futurepast has been serving clients in the United States and internationally since 1984. We welcome you to visit our archives, where we maintain some pages from previous years.