ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management System)
“The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines an environmental management system as “part of the management system used to manage environmental aspects, fulfill compliance obligations, and address risks and opportunities.”
ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) is a systematic framework to manage the immediate and long term environmental impacts of an organization’s products, services and processes.
ISO 14001 helps businesses of all sizes across all sectors make their day to day operations more sustainable. Sustainability can ultimately save money, improve brand reputation, engage employees and build resilience against uncertainty as well as the ability to rapidly adapt to change.
An ISO 14001 Certification for Your Business
Could Provide the Following Benefits:
• Increase stakeholder and customer trust
• Improve overall environmental impact
• Minimize their environmental footprint
• Diminish the risk of pollution incidents
• Ensure compliance with relevant environmental legislation, and
• Better environmental management reduces waste and energy use
• Improve efficiency to cut the cost of running your business
• Demonstrate compliance to expand your business opportunities
• Meet legal obligations to win greater stakeholder and customer trust
• Prepare for the changing business landscape confidently Quantify, monitor and control the impact of operations on the environment, now and in the future
• Advantage over competitors when tendering for business.
• Management of environmental risks & Improve employee safety.
• Potentially decrease public liability insurance costs for your organization
• Drive down costs & Improve resource efficiency
• Gain competitive advantage in supply chain design
• Increase new business opportunities
All businesses interact with the environment in some way. Today, due to changing customer expectations, new regulatory requirements and other changes, companies are putting more of an emphasis on actively managing their environmental impact. Standards
ISO 14001:2015 is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, and applies to the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that the organization determines it can either control or influence considering a life cycle perspective.
This includes private, non-profit and government organizations. There are currently more than 300,000 certifications to ISO 14001 in more than 180 countries.
ISO 14001:2015 can be used by any organization that wishes to set up, improve, or maintain an environmental management system to conform to its established environmental policy and requirements.