What is ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management Systems (EMS)?
ISO 14001 specifies the requirements for an environmental management system that an organization can use to enhance its environmental performance. This standard is intended for use by an organization seeking to manage its environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability. This standard is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature and applies to the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that the organization determines it can either control or influence considering a life cycle perspective. ISO 14001 mainly focuses to reduce waste management, demonstrate commitment to environment. It helps to organization comply environmental laws, regulations, building brand image with customers and other stakeholders.
Benefits of Environmental Management System ISO 14001:2015 (EMS):
- Improves your business image
Certification to ISO 14001 tells that you are concerned about the environmental impact your organization is making and you are committed to managing those impacts. The implementation of ways to control these impacts will certainly create a good public image which helps customer to choose your product or service over others.
- Cost savings
ISO 14001 focuses on identifying resource uses, waste and energy management within the organization, which in long term help in cost saving. Furthermore the need of complying with the legal requirement and reducing the number of environmental incident can prevent your organization from liability costs of fines from legal bodies.
- Helps in sustainability
Sustainable development can be achieved by balancing the three pillars of sustainability i.e. environment, social and economic. ISO 14001 standard now has specific product lifecycle requirements. Organization shall be fully aware of possible environmental impacts in each and every stage of a product’s life, and now must take responsibility for ensuring that the impact within each and every part of that lifecycle is very low. Organization’s commitment to providing the user with significantly longer lifecycle, reclamation of parts for reuse or upgrading helps in increasing sustainability.
- Helps in continual improvement
Continual improvement is integral to the ISO 14001 requirements which can used by organization for moving from small improvements toward greater. The culture of continual improvement within the organization helps in engaging the employees to achieve a common goal of improvement and also encourage the employees for being innovative and create new ideas.
Our expert consultants as per industry background can provide you with all guidance and advice you need to implement and get certified to ISO 14001. We provide training to your employees to understand the requirement and get acquainted with the standard. We also conduct GAP analysis which will help you understand and are the parts that are lagging in order to implement. Our consultant will assist you throughout the documentation period and help in improving the PDCA culture in your organization. Post certification audit we also help you with the root cause analysis and taking corrective action for any raised nonconformities.