ISO 14001 is an internationally accepted standard that sets out how you can go about putting in place an effective Environmental Management System (EMS). The standard is designed to address the delicate balance between maintaining profitability and reducing environmental impact; with the commitment of your entire organization, it can enable you to achieve both objectives.

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. The next step is to produce objectives for improvement and a management programme to achieve them, with regular reviews for continual improvement.

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 organisations (NGOs), academia and neighbours.

So ISO 14001 is relevant to every organization.

Benefits

Certifying your company's environmental management system to ISO 14001 means that a third party, such as BSI, has assessed that it meets the requirements set out in the standard.

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

 

Pressure is now being exerted by many large organisations, in both the private sector and the public sector, who expect their suppliers to adopt environmentally-friendly practices and may require ISO 14001 certification as a condition of doing business with them.

Documentation solutions

The path to certification does not have to be hard.  Our document solutions process provides the way forward easily and cost effectively.

Do contact us to find out how we can help you.