ISO 14001 : 2015 - EMS Certification - Spiffy Consultancy Services

ISO 14001 is an internationally recognized standards for environmental management systems that is applicable to any business or organization, regardless of size, location or income. The ISO 14001 environmental management standards exist to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment. The main objective of ISO 14001 standard is “to promote more effective and efficient environmental management in organizations and to provide useful and usable tools – ones that are cost effective, system-based, flexible and reflect the best organizations and the best organizational practices available for gathering, interpreting and communicating environmentally relevant information”.

ISO 14001 is the principal management system standard which specifies the requirements for the formulation and maintenance of an EMS. There are three fundamental commitments required in an environmental policy that meets the requirements of ISO 14001. These include:

prevention of pollution
compliance with legislation
continual improvement of the EMS

These commitments help drive the improvements in overall environmental performance. ISO 14001 can be used as a tool; it focuses on controlling your environmental aspects or the way that your activities products and services interact with the environment; for example, emissions to air, land or water. Organisation must describe what they intend to do, adhere to their procedures and record their efforts to demonstrate compliance and improvement. The organization shall set objectives, targets and implement programme to improve your environmental performance which often leads to financial benefits.

Organization are required to identify applicable legal, statutory and related requirements. It is particularly important to identify how the legislation affects you so that compliance measures can be adopted and periodically evaluated ensuring requirements are understood by employees and implemented effectively.