ISO 14001 - Environmental Management System

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The ISO 14000 Environmental Management standards exist to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements, and continually improve in the above.

ISO 14000 is similar to ISO 9000 Quality Management in that both pertain to the process of how a product is produced, rather than to the product itself. As with ISO 9000, certification is performed by third-party organizations rather than being awarded by ISO directly.
Purpose of ISO 14001
Management of environmental issues for an organization considering the interested parties concern is the main challenge of the business besides the reducing the direct & indirect impact on environment. Achieving environmental performance with improvement is demanded by the regulatory bodies, customers and other stack holders due to increased concerned along with environmental compliance.

Certification to ISO 14001 demonstrates your company’s commitment to caring for environment and provides a framework for an organization to manage its legal compliance and improve environmental performance, including risk and opportunity identification, analysis, target setting, and measurement. It also delivers significant cost benefits in terms of increased efficiency, conserving resources and waste minimization.
Benefits of ISO 14001
Certification to ISO 14001 demonstrates to customers & society your organization's responsibility towards environmental friendly business practices with minimize or no impact on the environment. The main key benefits are:
Provide & enhanced customer confidence and satisfaction, which in turn can lead to increased business opportunities.
Facilitate reductions in pollution, waste, energy, injuries, and incidents.
Better meet environmental legal compliance and corporate requirements.

Provide a tool for environmental performance improvement and the means to effectively monitor and measure environmental performance.
Provide a well-defined and clear framework, which is also flexible to your own business needs and expectations.
A significant competitive advantage because customer companies require management system certification from suppliers and sub-contractors in order to conduct business with them.
Features of ISO 14001

ISO 14001 is based on two concepts one is continual improvement & regulatory compliance. It lays forth a best practice for proactive management of the environmental impact of your organization and may be combined with certification to other management system standards, e.g. ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001.
ISO 14001 audits covers following:
Policy statement (commitment of top management to improve environment)
Assessment of aspects & its impact on the environment (evaluation of interaction with the environment that how much we are damaging the environment))
Legal & other requirements (ensuring compliance to the law of the land)
Documented objectives & targets (continual improvement)
Resources, Role, Responsibility & Authority (making responsible every one)
Competence, awareness & training (ensures availability of right person)

Communication (with Internal & external interested parties)
Documentation, Control of documents & records (for ensuring compliance)
Operational controls(established working conditions)
Emergency preparedness & response (check your preparation if any harm to environment)
Performance measurement & monitoring (ensuring environmental parameters)
Nonconformity, corrective & preventive action (provides mechanism for improvement)
Management review (ensuring organization system is complied)

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