Overview
The ISO 14001 family is primarily concerned with “environmental management”. This means what the organization does to:
- minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities,
- achieve continual improvement of its environmental performance.
In practice, what the standard offers is the management of resource use and disposition. It’s recognized worldwide as a means to control costs, reduce risk and improve performance.
Environment management system ( EMS) is a framework used by an organization to manage the Organization Structure, Planning Activities, Responsibilities, Practices, Procedures, Processes and Resources for developing, implementing, maintaining, reviewing, and correcting/improving the approach to addressing environmental issues. ISO 14001 is relevant to every organization, including:
- Single location to large multi-national companies
- Manufacturing and Engineering Industries
- Process and Service Industries
- High risk companies to low risk service organizations
Suppliers to Original equipment manufacturer going for CSR
Benefits
ISO 14001 implementation Improves/leads to
- Level of Assurance in Organisational ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
- Environmental POLICIES & OBJECTIVES set by ‘top management’
- cost savings through the reduction of waste and more efficient use of natural resources ( water, gas and fossil fuels).
- Tighten production processes, yielding higher efficiency and reduction in the risk of incidents.
- Improve internal communications and morale – often leading to sound environmental solutions suggested by staff, who are the ultimate owners of your business processes.
- Ensure that your organization is better placed to avoid future fines and penalties from not meeting environmental legislation.
- Reduce insurance costs through demonstrating better risk management.
- better public perception of your organization
- improved internal and external Communications
- improved use of time and resources
- improved morale and motivation
- Customer Confidence, Satisfaction and TRUST
- Organisational PROFITABILITY
- Ability to Differentiate Organisation for Competitive Advantage
- Organisational Credibility & Reputation
Training
We offer a customized training programme on ISO 14001:2004 for
- ISO 14001 – Awareness on implementation and documentation requirements
- ISO 14001 – Internal Auditor training
- Workshop on Aspect – Impact identification for your industry