ISO 14001:2015 is applicable to any business that wishes to
establish, implement, maintain and improve an environmental management system
and conform to its stated environmental policy. It helps the
organization to identify, prioritize, and manage environmental risks as part of
normal business practices.
It
enables to effectively manage environmental impacts through commitments on prevention
of pollution, legal compliance, and continual improvement. The major objective
of the ISO 14001 norms 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 organizational practices available for gathering, interpreting and
communicating environmentally relevant information."
ISO
14001 (EMS) Certification helps to maintain the environment around us. With the
alarm of global warming and its consequence the human society has become
serious about the ecology and its preservation. ISO 14001 (EMS) Certification
helps your organization to be in control of and successfully manage the most
significant environmental aspects like Waste-handling, emissions, utilize
natural resources, and energy-efficiency.
Customers
and shareholders increasingly demand their customers to demonstrate what they
do, and how they comply environmental impacts of their business. Environmental
regulations are getting stricter, and so is the law enforcement. Organizations
acquiring ISO 14001 Certification (EMS) are well placed against their
competitors and are duly recognized at the global level.
Depending
on how your organization operates and the way you focus on complying
environmental aspects /impacts on your business give stakeholder’s peace of
mind. ISO 14001 implementation and certification assure that you follow the
best practice in managing environmental issues and compliant to all applicable
requirements in your business.
ISO 14001 standard
provides guidance on how to consider various processes of your business viz., procurement,
storage, distribution, service, manufacturing, etc., and how to reduces its
impact on the environment. It also drives you to evaluate how you manage
emergency response, customer/ stakeholders expectations, and relationships with
your local community. Some of the salient benefits are listed below:
·
Reduced
cost of waste management.
·
Demonstrate
environmental credentials
·
Savings
in consumption of energy and materials.
·
Improved
corporate image among regulators, customers and the public.
·
Ensure
legislative awareness and compliance.
ISO 14001:2015 Environmental
Management Systems (EMS) are applicable to any organization irrespective of
their size or geographical location and concerned about improving its system of
production, service, management, and operations as a way to better control its
environmental impacts. Also, any organization must go for this certification if
their core business activity may affect its neighbouring environment or threat
to flora & fauna.
The cycle of the certificate is valid for 3 years from the date of certification, subject to the successful conduct of surveillance audits before completion of the 1st & 2nd year respectively.
