"Energy User League of ISO 50001 Self-Declaration-Malaysia" (The League-Malaysia)

We believe the "Self-Declaration" concept intensifies the best practice approach in EnMS operation, and motivates and promotes energy user organisation to consider ISO 50001 certification. If in your region or country having or considering similar league or alliance, we would very much like to work in collaboration to make this movement more global. Please contact either EeSolution Engineering   Lam Sing Yew - singyew.lam@eesolution.com.my or EnMS-Doc Associates  Nobby Yamanouchi - nobby@enms-doc.com.

(1)  The League Overview page...
(2)  The League Activity Guideline page...
(3)  Other related article...

We believe self-declaration is as good as certification in the era of sustainability (in this case CSR). Our wonder is why the certification should be granted if the companies do not feel competent to self-declare. After all for energy matter, energy users themselves know the best about their behavior. As long as the rule is set in strict accordance with ISO 50001 and local laws and requirements, together with developing ISO 50001 class documentation, demonstrating publicly acceptable EnPI baseline and target, we think the company is in the good position to self-declare. Only additional thing the company must follow that it is not a requirement of ISO 50001 (one of the very few weaknesses of ISO 50001) is their commitment for "external communication" to openly and clearly to their stakeholders and public regarding their conformance to ISO 50001 and energy performance improvement. For the rest, stakeholders and public should decide if the organisation is reliable or not.

Self-Declaration is not only to help and motivate SMEs to go for ISO 50001 without the cost of external assessment, but also to help the large size enterprises. Our observation at least in Japan is that large size enterprises find the cost of external assessment quite significant including the cost of resource allocation and maintaining communication with the external assessor. When energy user organisation is competent for "Self-Declaration", the external assessment would become much more efficient and thus can eliminate significant time and cost for the procedure. We are strong believer that "Self-Declaration" is one of the effective ways to open up market for the ISO 50001 certification for the large size enterprises.

There are significant aspects in superiority of "Self-Declaration" as listed below:

1. Its nature of organisation's voluntary approach that leads to openness and willingly declare publicly acceptable EnPI baseline and target and verification results.
2. Self-D imposes sense of responsibility for the workforce.
3. Effective EnMS operation results in the intensity of internal audit being much stronger than external audit...Creating reverse phenomenon of "Auditees audits external auditors".
4. In the natural event of deciding to go for the certification, Self-D competence enables very efficient assessment procedure resulting in minimal cost and time spent for certification and certification maintaining procedure.

EnMS-Doc, the promoting site for the EnMS International Standard has established a practical and easy to adopt guideline document that can accelerate organisation's "continual performance improvement" practices through EnMS operation. IT is "EnMS Continual Improvement Guideline" (EnMS-Cont.Impr.Gdln-M01E) one of the management documents to ensure organisation to implement ISO 50001 class EnMS operation.

When you manage to infiltrate the energy performance improvement procedure, you will come to realise the procedure is very common to the way you want to infiltrate business improvement procedure in your organisation. This is the area that ISO 50001 and ISO 9001 actively complement each other. If your organisation is seeking the integrated management system, please place attention in this.

The key approach to be taken in an effective EnMS operation is at any time to maintain momentum to do better. At the same time, when an un-expected or un-wanted event occurred or to be occurred, EnMS should be structured such that the operation can swiftly and effectively counter the situation and turn into an opportunity to do better. Saying is simple but reality is not that simple. It requires all workers discipline to be constantly in the continual improvement mode. In order to assist workers to set their mind for good, better and best practice operation, the company has established "Continual Improvement Guideline" designed for EnMS related activities. However, while establishing the contents, it became apparent that the guideline could apply to the company's whole business activities.

Continual improvement objectives are:

1. To create positive environment in the organisation so that workers do not shy away from challenges.
2. To pursue higher level, in order to maintain the achieved good performance or to do better.
3. To act swiftly, efficiently and timely at time of problems for solution with measures of non-recurrence, and turn the experience into opportunity.
4. To take corrective or preventive action by making correction against actual or potential nonconformity.
5. To humbly learn and share valuable information in the organisation regarding:
• What could be an irregular incident and how it was treated and resolved
• What could be non-conformance and how it was improved and turned into opportunity
• It could be a challenging task to maintain the high level of performance and how continual improvement practice can overcome the challenges
• How proactive approach can motivate the workforce and make things easier

The document is a practical guideline to guide the organisation to achieve energy performance improvement or to maintain the improved status following the objectives of the EnMS operation. It is written under the assumption of real energy user sites thus very user friendly.
In the document it defines the managerial guideline and provisions for activities directed towards continual improvement related to EnMS operation. It is also acts as a performance improvement procedural document. The document aims for all workers to become familiarised with the process of continual improvement action path, and assists in setting mind to pursue the best practice in EnMS operation regardless of the situation.

Therefore, the requirements are positive thinking and practical. Any top management will recognise that by performing to the ISO 50001 requirement, it ensures to take superior position in developing sustainability business. In order to take advantage of the requirement for the betterment of business operation and to maintain the established framework, one must at least establish a foundation of documentation. Once going through each item of requirements, there exist responding documents required to support complying with each item.
We have created an analysis table "Documents responding to ISO 50001 requirements" demonstrating applicable documents for requirement item.
Those of you who are interested please download

Once you go through the table you will immediately come to realise that once you have established 12 key management documents as shown below.
This is the reasoning behind EnMS-Doc developed the M333 Set Menu #101"all 12 key management documents in a set" as our feature offering.
The greatest thing about ISO 50001 is once the compatible management documents are in line, they will convert your existing documents related to EnMS operation such as procedural documents, daily journals and data into ISO 50001 documents.

Reference page...

- Series of EnMS management documents "guidebook + template in one" ..."EnMS key 12 documents in a set" leaflet (pdf)
- EnMS Audit Scorecard View scorecard sheet sample...
- Design, create EnMS related documents tailored to the organisation requirements

- Guiding the organisation qualified to "ISO 50001 Self-Declaration" in one month ...Consulting service overview leaflet (pdf)
- EnMS operational management activities
- EnMS Monitoring & Action related activities
- EnMS audit related activities

- Event coordination such as seminars, conferences on global scale
- EnMS related "Business Discovery Tour" coordination
- EnMS related translation works (English/Japanese)

- Introduction of EnMS related products and services
- EnMS related liaison operation
- EnMS related business representative

The chief chef of French restaurand "Chez Ken" and CEO of the food factory to supply the cousine throughout Japan spoke about how he overcame the challenge of maitaining the original taste of roast beef while complying to the safety standard. The spirit is what we need to establish ISO 50001 class EnMS operation from the top managements...full story...

We still see a lot of attentions being placed on certification when ISO 50001, International Standard for Energy Management System (EnMS) is talked about. On the other hand seldom we hear about the importance of documentation that forms the fundamental part of enhancing EnMS operation conforming to the ISO 50001 requirements. Full story...

key speeches and presentation materials can be accessed from:
“Creating the right environment for ISO 50001 to thrive” - SEAI, Dublin, Ireland - 4th May 2012

1. Expressing the utmost respect to the ISO organization, PC242 and associated members involved in launching the standard as a result of their invaluable inputs with their time and effort.
2. Documentation is very important in EnMS operation and for the ISO 50001 certification...
3. ISO 50001 is to eliminate ISO-lation...

1. Season's Greetings 2011
2. re-visiting the real purpose of ISO 50001...

1. The year of the EnMS Power that enhances the business output...
2. An important message from the content of ISO 50001

• 2012 resolution...
• Energy management leadership role and responsibility: attentiveness to the global scene
• Energy management in the scope of supply chain: Cannot avoid global perspectives
• ISO 50001 : Way to establishing system for self-certification (self-declaration) in alleviating for many energy users feeling certification work and economic load is becoming a high burden (ISO 50001 is for performance over conformance)

• [DOE Announces Up To $3 Million to Administer Superior Energy Performance Program]...

• The reason why we want to endorse ISO 50001 self-declaration

1. For those of you in charge of energy management operation...

1. U.S.A. ISO/TC242 expert speaks to Japanese ISO dedicated magazine "ISOS"
2. GSEP Introduction
3. "Business Continuity vs. Energy" Management System

• EnMS Audit Guideline utilising the original Scorecard System incorporating the SEP Best Practice concept

1. Introducing EnMS Audit Guideline document
2. Introducing EnMS Audit Scorecard System tool

1. Importance of monitoring system in EnMS operation
2. Introducing TEAM Sigma, EnMS Solution Software Suite
3. Wiki based Framework for ISO 50001 compliance that provides a paperless EnMS Document Management Operating System, wiki50001.

1. Happy birthday ISO 50001!!
2. 2nd International Conference on the Global impact of Energy Management Systems (hosted by SEAI) "Creating the right environment for ISO 50001 to thrive"- Dublin, Ireland
3. "EnMS Operation Practical Guide to the ISO 50001 Self-Declaration", new document

1. ACEEE ranked Great Britain the most energy efficient nation of world's largest economies
2. What we saw at the Opening Ceremonies of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games
3. Japanese Sustainability Business Discovery Mission to the UK

1. Energy management awareness in INDIA
2. Energy conservation Act 2001 amendment 2010 (INDIA)
3. "RENKEI Control Guidebook" from Japan introduced first time at "Seminar on Green IT Best Practice" in Dheli, India 31 August

1. Introducing Malaysia dedicated EnMS pages to our website
2. 3-day MS ISO 50001 Class EnMS Workshop in Malaysia 25-27 September held in KL, Malaysia
3. Forming "Energy User Lague of ISO 50001 Self-Declaration, Malaysia" to boost EnMS operation enhancement in Malaysia.
4. "RENKEI Control Guidebook" now available in English

• Competent EnMS operation with solid documentation leads the organisation to ISO 50001 conformity and voluntarily declare its compliance. The organisation then can decide if the certification is strategically beneficial for their business.

• Singapore, here we come...
• Lesson from ISO 22000...Tasteful Top Management can make things different