Environmental Management System

1-History of ISO 14001:2004  

2-Definitions about 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems

3-ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Principles

4-Parts and Scope of 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems

5-ISO 14001:2004 Online Application Form

ISO 14001 is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) through dedicated technical committees representing approximately 150 countries around the world. Its purpose is to enable an organization of any type or size to develop and implement a policy committing it to prevention of pollution, compliance with legal and other requirements, and continual improvement. The realization of this commitment will be a management system that recognizes and manages the primary environmental issues through awareness and assessment of applicable legal requirements, objectives for improvement, assignment of responsibilities, competent personnel, communications, procedures, controls and monitoring, emergency response capability, self correction and assessment, and internal reviews. These processes are to be based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act continual improvement model. This model has been expanded into seventeen elements:

1. Environmental policy
2. Environmental aspects
3. Legal and other requirements
4. Objectives and targets
5. Environmental management program
6. Structure and responsibility
7. Training, awareness and competence
8. Communication
9. Emergency preparedness and response
10. Monitoring and measurement
11. EMS documentation
12. Document control
13. Operational control
14. Nonconformance and corrective and preventive action
15. Records
16. EMS audit
17. Management review

Identify elements of your business that impact on the environment and gain access to the relevant environmental legislation.

Produce objectives for improvement and management program to achieve them, with regular reviews for continual improvement.

Which areas are covered by the ISO 14000 series?

 

The key areas covered by this series are:

• Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
• Environmental Auditing
• Environmental Labels and Declarations
• Environmental Performance Evaluation
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Environmental Communication
• Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Monitoring

What it Takes to Put an Effective EMS in Place

In order to put an effective environmental management system in place, the environment needs to become an organizational priority and environmental management be built everywhere. Problems should be looked at as opportunities and the system kept flexible and simple.

Increased awareness of sustainable development gives environmentally credible companies a competitive edge in national and international markets. A certified Environmental Management System proves that your business is taking active steps to fulfill your responsibilities.

Environmental regulations are getting stricter, and so is the law enforcement. Customers and shareholders increasingly demand that businesses diminish the environmental impact from their business, demonstrate what they do, and how they improve. An Environmental Management System helps your organization to be in control of and successfully manage the most significant environmental aspects, e.g. emissions, waste-handling, utilize natural resources, and energy-efficiency.

1-History of ISO 14001:2004   

Firstly preparing of ISO 14000 environment management systems is reliant to world summit which was done in Rio in June 1992 year and principles of Rio contract. World summit which was done, 1 year after, in 1993 by ISO, for preparing of international environment management system, technique committee was occurred by about representatives of 50 countries.

ISO 14001 environment management system was issued and applied in September 1996 by this committee. ISO 14000 applying are still reliant to basics of voluntary but standard will be mandatory with coactions of social, international organizations and states in near future. Passed levels of environment management system are the following:

1973: Europe Community principles I. Action plan was issued (for applying of protective cautions of environment)

1992: BS 7750 standard

1992: Rio Declaration

1993: ISO /TC 207 environment management technique committee was established to develop by ISO 14000 family standards.

1994: TS 9719 standard (Environment management system – general features)

1996: ISO 14001 standard

April 2005: ISO 14001 current version

2-Definitions about 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems  

Being under responsibility and policy: Organization should determine environment policy and give adhesion commitment to environment management system.

Plan: Organization should determine sizes of action, product and services and select important things. Aims and objectives should be determined to realize commitment and to be realized actions should be programmed to reach aim and objectives.

Applying and operation: Organization should develop support mechanism and abilities to reach the aim and objectives and to be efficiency applied.

Control and corrective action: Organization should measure environmental performance and successful degree of this performance and evaluate monitoring.

Review and developing: Organization should review EMS to develop general environment performance and to develop general successful degree in this performance and develop continuously.

Term and Defınıtıons Related ISO 14001 

Continual developing: continual improvement of organization EMS to provide developing in general environment performance as suitable to the environmental policy of organization.

Environment: Organization whose activity is priged inside weather, water, land, natural resources, plant group (flora), animal group human include ambient these relations.

Environment size: Element which interact with environment and actions, products or services of organization.

Environment effect:  All type of changes, positive or negative, which are produced by services, product, and action of organization partly or whole in the environment.

Environment policy: Organization declaration which was done to explain intentions and principles, about general environment performance and to provide frame for actions, environmental aim and objectives.

Prevention of pollution: is to prevent, decrease and control pollution. Again work should be done, other operation dependency should be done, operation should have changes, control mechanism and resources should be used efficiently, including material substitution, all type operations and practices should be applied, materials or products should be used.

Able to continue development: Existing needs should not avoid meeting requirements of next generation to develop.

Evaluation of along life: It is a serial regulations in goods and service system, produced from clear materials and energy with goods and services, in along life this system directly to collect know ledges of environment effects and to review

3-ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Principles 

§         An organization should focus on what needs to be done - it should ensure commitment to the EMS and define its policy.

§         An organization should formulate a plan to fulfill its environmental policy.

§         For effective implementation, an organization should develop the capabilities and support mechanisms necessary to achieve its environmental policy, objectives and targets.

§         An organization should measure, monitor and evaluate its environmental performance.

An organization should review and continually improve its environmental management system, with the objective of improving its overall environmental performance

4-Parts and Scope of 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems 

ISO 14001 standard clauses

1. Scope
2. Normative standards
3. Definitions
4. EMS requirements and main elements
   1. General requirements
   2. Environment policy
   3. Plan
      1. Environment size
      2. Legal and other requirements
      3. Aim and objectives
      4. Environment management program or programs
   4. Practices and operation
      1. Structure and responsibility
      2. Training, consciousness and license
      3. Communication
      4. Binding operations to certificate related EMS
      5. Certificate control
      6. Operation control
      7. Getting ready of urgently situation and to be done jobs in this situations
   5. Control and corrective action
      1. Monitoring and measurement
      2. Contempt, corrective –preventive actions
      3. Record
      4. EMS requirement audit
   6. Management review