22-05-2014, 03:19 PM
ISO 14000
ISO 14000 INTRODUCTION
In the present day, environmental matter is not limited only in one country or specific area. The environmental impact effects everywhere and leads to problem all over the world.
Environmental conservation has become so complicated that it causes pressure to all business organizations.
The International Organization for Standardization had led to the development of the International Standard for environmental management system series (ISO 14000).
ISO 14000 SERIES
The ISO 14000 series is a set of standards concerning EMS including the activities of designing, producing, delivering and servicing.
The concept of the standard is to enable the organization to continually develop and improve its EMS.
Although the series comprises of many standards, the standard ISO 14001 is used as the direction for EMS certification.
WHO SHOULD IMPLEMENT ISO 14000
Any organization: manufacturers and service organizations.
Any activities of each organization may cause the environmental aspects and impacts such as noise, dust, waste, contaminants in manufacturing process and ineffectively resources consumption in servicing. These can be minimized by implementing EMS.
Although each country has already had her own environmental regulations, organizations are able to apply ISO 14000 series effectively within their system on voluntary basis and the benefit obtained is not only for organizations themselves but their society also.
WHAT IS ISO 14000
ISO 14000 is a series of voluntary international standards pertaining to environmental issues.
They are designed to reduce the environmental effects from all aspects of business activities. It is believed that higher efficiency would be realized and "the cost of doing business" would also be reduced , by minimizing business exposure to environmental issues.
HISTORY OF ISO 14000
The reasons for developing these national standards stemmed from the European success terms of the ISO 9000 Quality Management Standards, and from the "green movement" in Europe. These standards were envisioned to provide a market-driven, competitive attitude in business.
ISO 14000, which is an evolution of ISO 9000 standards, is designed to address process improvements in these environmental areas by way of energy audits, hazardous materials management, and other techniques
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY.
Ensure commitment to the EMS and define policy that:
Is based on company’s mission and values.
is appropriate to the nature, scale and environmental impacts of the business
includes a commitment to continual improvement
includes a commitment to comply with relevant environmental legislation and regulations
is documented, maintained and communicated to all employees
is available to public