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ISO 14001 Environment
an effective Environmental Management System (EMS). The standard is designed to address the delicate balance between maintaining profitability and reducing environmental impact.
What’s in ISO 14001:
- General requirements
- Environmental policy
- Planning implementation and operation
- Checking and corrective action
- Management review
This means you can identify aspects of your business that impact on the environment and understand those environmental laws that are relevant to your situation.
Who is it relevant to?
Environmental impact is becoming an increasingly important issue across the globe, with pressure to minimize that impact coming from a number of sources: local and national governments, regulators, trade associations, customers, employees and shareholders. Social pressures are also building up from the growing array of interested parties, such as consumer, environmental and minority non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia and neighbors.
So ISO 14001 is relevant to every organization, including:
- Single site to large multi-national companies
- High risk companies to low risk service organizations
- Manufacturing, process and the service industries; including local governments
- All industry sectors including public and private sectors
- Original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers
1. Gap Analysis & Planning:
- Ensure you have the commitment of top management.
- Define, with the authorization of top management, your company's environment policy.
- Planning must be completed to establish a framework for identifying gap assessments and the implementation of necessary control measures.
- Legal obligations must be identified and understood, objectives set and a management programme for achieving them implemented; this entire process should be documented.
2. Implementation of EMS:
- Introducing performance, measuring and monitoring practices.
- Establishing and documenting responsibility and authority for accidents, incidents, non-conformities, and corrective and preventative action.
- Establishing a procedure for records and records management.
- Auditing and assessing the performance of the management system.
- Performing management reviews of the system at identified and defined intervals.
3. Internal Audit Process
4. Certification Audit Process
Certification to ISO 14001 allows you to:
- Demonstrate a commitment to achieving legal and regulatory compliance to regulators and government
- Demonstrate your environmental commitment to stakeholders
- Demonstrate an innovative and forward thinking approach to customers and prospective employees
- Increase your access to new customers and business partners
- Better manage your environmental risks, now and in the future
- Potentially reduce public liability insurance costs
- Enhance your reputation
For particular industries, pressure is now being exerted by many large organizations, such as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who expect their suppliers to adopt environmentally-friendly practices and may mandate ISO 14001 certification as a license to operate.