ISO 14000 - Environmental Management
The ISO 14000 family of standards provides practical tools for companies and organizations of all kinds looking to manage their environmental responsibilities.
ISO 14001:2015 and its supporting standards such as ISO 14006:2011 focus on environmental systems to achieve this. The other standards in the family focus on specific approaches such as audits, communications, labeling and life cycle analysis, as well as environmental challenges such as climate change.
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ISO 14001:2015
ISO 14001:2015 sets out the criteria for an environmental management system and can be certified to. It maps out a framework that a company or organization can follow to set up an effective environmental management system. It can be used by any organization regardless of its activity or sector.
Using ISO 14001:2015 can provide assurance to company management and employees as well as external stakeholders that environmental impact is being measured and improved.
ISO 14001 is an internationally agreed standard that sets out the requirements for an environmental management system.It helps organizations improve their environmental performance through more efficient use of resources and reduction of waste, gaining a competitive advantage and the trust of stakeholders.
What benefits will it bring to my business or organization?
There are many reasons why an organization should take a strategic approach to improve its environmental performance. Users of the standard have reported that ISO 14001 helps:
- Demonstrate compliance with current and future statutory and regulatory requirements
- Increase leadership involvement and engagement of employees
- Improve company reputation and the confidence of stakeholders through strategic communication
- Achieve strategic business aims by incorporating environmental issues into business management
- Provide a competitive and financial advantage through improved efficiencies and reduced costs
- Encourage better environmental performance of suppliers by integrating them into the organization's business systems
What are the Key Improvements?
ISO 14001:2015 now requires:
- Environmental management to be more prominent within theorganization’s strategic direction
- A greater commitment from leadership
- The implementation of proactiveinitiatives to protect the environmentfrom harm and degradation, such assustainable resource use and climatechange mitigation
- A focus on life-cycle thinking to ensureconsideration of environmentalaspects from development toend-of-life