ISO 14001
ISO 14001, the international environmental management standard, stipulates the internationally recognized requirements to be met by an environmental management system and is part of a family of standards. This family of standards encompasses numerous other standards relating to different areas of environmental management, including the life cycle assessment, key environmental figures, and the environmental performance evaluation. It can be applied to both manufacturing companies and service providers.
Aim of the standard
ISO 14001 focuses on the continuous improvement process as a means of achieving each defined goal about the environmental performance of an organization (company, service provider, authority, etc.).
Plan: establishing the objectives and processes necessary to achieve implementation of the environmental policy of the organization
Do: implementation of processes
Check: monitoring of processes about legal and other requirements and the environmental policy objectives of the organization; publication of environmental performance where appropriate (the success of the organization in its environmental safety measures)
Act: where appropriate, processes should be modified or corrected;
A company should develop an operational environmental policy, environmental goals, an environmental program, and an appropriate management system in this context that aids the achievement of objectives.
The organization should set up and implement an environmental management system based on its environmental policy (i.e. its goals about environmental protection) in the first step to achieve the desired environmental performance. Continuous improvement should be achieved through regular inspection of the set (environmental) targets and the environmental management system.
It is expressly emphasized in the standard that it does not stipulate any absolute requirements for environmental performance. It does, however, require the observance of obligations that the organization has set itself in its environmental policy. One specification which is new to the revised version of ISO 14001 is that this environmental policy must contain stipulations including the observance of pertinent legal obligations and other regulations.
European versions
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) has adopted the ISO standard and designated the current edition of ISO 14001 certification as a European Standard (EN). All members of CEN are then obliged to adopt this standard in an unaltered form. The current ISO 14001 certification standard was published in November 2009.
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