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The ISO 14001 Certification Management Standard

ISO 14001 ensures your business is executing ethical environmental practices daily. It provides tools and tips to reduce your environmental impact and improve environmental performance.

The standard sets out a plan that a company or organization can follow to ensure an environmentally conscious management system is being implemented. It can be utilized by any business or organization regardless of industry, activity, or sector.

It assures your business is executing good environmental practices without compromising quality, performance, or service. Seeking an ISO 14001 certification gains the trust of customers and stakeholders that your business is running smoothly with environmentally conscious practices. It also reassures management and employees that your business is aware of the future impact, securing the stability of your business.

Why Achieve the ISO 14001 Certification for Your Business?

ISO 14001 has been implemented by approximately 230,000 organizations in 159 countries.

While there were earlier standards for environmental management systems (EMS), ISO first released its 14001 standard in 1996. The current version is ISO 14001:2015.

The ISO 14001 environmental management system standard was developed by an internationally selected standards committee. The aim was to help all types of organizations develop plans to reduce their impact on the environment, especially to minimize pollution.

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ISO 14001 Standard

Best practices that the ISO 14001 Standard promotes are:

  • Identifying aspects arising from the organization’s operations that could impact the environment
  • Determining the potential impact the aspects could have on the environment
  • Identifying operational controls, including monitoring and measuring methods where appropriate, to help minimize the potential environmental impact
  • Implementing the controls and monitoring compliance with and the effectiveness of the controls
  • Taking corrective action when an organization has impacted the environment
  • Learning from non-conformances and incidents and determining appropriate action to help the organization prevent further incidents.

To get the ISO 14001 certification standard, your business needs to consider the following aspects:

ISO 14001: 2015 needs organizations to adopt a set of practices and procedures that together constitute a comprehensive EMS. These are the key requirements underlined by the standard that organizations need to fulfill for implementing their EMS.

Context of the Organization:

Firstly, the organizations need to understand its context with respect to the standard. They shall recognize all the internal factors as well as external issues that either influence the purpose of the EMS or affect the objectives to be achieved by the EMS. The factors also include the expectations or needs of the different interested bodies of the organization. Understanding the context helps in establishing the structure of the EMS and implementing it.

Leadership and Commitment:

This requirement highlights the significant role of the top management members in the implementation and maintenance of the EMS. Their participation ensures that the EMS gets a definite direction in your organization and employees become accountable for its effectiveness. They will define an environmental policy, set of objectives, and communicate specific responsibilities to the employees.

Planning:

This section highlights the need to evaluate the organization’s current environmental framework and potential risks to determine the objectives of the EMS. This requirement also needs you to analyze the key environmental interactions of your organization, as well as legal environmental obligations.

Support:

This requirement implies your organization should be prepared with all the resources necessary for implementing, maintaining, and improving the EMS. The resources also include communication, awareness, employee competence, and documented information.

Operation:

This section calls for organizations to determine, implement, and improve the processes and practices that are required for meeting the purpose of EMS. It also includes deciding the actions for responding to emergencies.

Performance Evaluation:

Fulfilling this requirement shall ensure that your EMS performs efficiently and helps your organization progress towards the proposed objectives. To evaluate the performance of the EMS, your organization should monitor the processes to identify if any of its aspects need improvement.

Improvement:

The EMS shall also be reviewed periodically to identify nonconformity issues and any other weaknesses so that you can take corrective actions to resolve them. Constantly reviewing the conformity of EMS ensures that it is improved in the long run.

By attaining the ISO 14001 certification, your business may see the following potential benefits:

The interest of both big businesses and SMEs in implementing the ISO 14001 environmental management system is increasing day by day. However, you do not have to just jump into the decision to invest in it. First, learn about its benefits and understand how you can reap environmental as well as commercial advantages out of it.

Improved Environmental Performance: With the ISO 14001 certification, your business is able to control the environmental impacts of its activities or reduce them to a minimum. It also enables you to reduce resource use by following practices like recycling or reuse, and contribute towards sustainability.

Absolute Legal & Regulatory Compliance: Getting ISO 14001 certified enables your organization to recognize your compliance obligations that come from environmental legislation and industry regulations and meet them. By ensuring legal compliance, your business stays away from any breaches, litigation cases, or penalties.

Reduction in Operational Costs: By reducing the wastes released from your business operations and using resources efficiently, including energy, you can save a lot of costs.

Competitive Advantage and Newer Opportunities: ISO 14001, being an international certification for EMS, benchmarks your business’s environmental performance and makes it stand out in the competition. This opens up a door for new opportunities as organizations look for suppliers or partners that have such credentials in terms of promoting environmental sustainability.

Improved Relationship with Stakeholders: The certification demonstrates that your business is proactive in preventing environmental impacts and enhancing sustainability, which leaves a positive impression of your business on the stakeholders and strengthens the relationship with them.

Getting started with the ISO 14001 certification procedure might seem complex to you, but our expert ISO 14001 consultants will make it easier for you with trouble-free steps.

Consultation:

In the first step, we would discuss with you the details of the ISO 14001 requirements and provide consultation to help you understand their relevance in your business and processes. Our consultants would then help you plan the next steps to meet the criteria for successful certification within a decided timeframe.

Document Your EMS:

Our consultants will help you determine the scope and objectives of your EMS. Following that, they would evaluate your existing processes to determine how they will interact with the EMS. Subsequently, they would help you to prepare a document of the processes and EMS, as required by the standard. The document establishes how your employees should execute the processes to adhere to the standard’s requirements.

Implementation of EMS:

Once the documentation is complete, you need to provide training to the employees to ensure the EMS is practically put into place. Training is necessary to ensure the system is efficiently integrated throughout your organization and there is consistency in the roles of employees.

Internal Audit:

Our team also has expert auditors who will analyze your processes and EMS to find out any inconsistencies and nonconformities. They would then provide recommendations to correct or fix those identified issues to ensure your business is fully compliant and certification ready.

Certification:

You need to apply for certification to a certification body. They would perform an external audit and get your business certified after affirming the compliance of your EMS. Our consultants will help to maintain your certification in the long run by periodically following up and performing surveillance audits.

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Ongoing support

Compliancehelp Consulting LLC can help you manage ongoing compliance on your own, or you can team up with us. Our personalized ISO certification services include monitoring and internal audits as well. Our experts can monitor your Quality Management System to ensure consistency, improvement, and compliance. We can also help in making it compliant with future updates to the ISO standard a cinch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISO 14001 certification?

ISO 14001 is an international regulatory standard for Environmental Management System (EMS). It provides organizations with a set of requirements for developing, implementing, and consistently improving their EMS. The EMS is a comprehensive management framework that helps businesses to reduce the impacts of their operations on the environment and ensure the sustainability of resources. Achieving the ISO 14001 certification will hence prove that your organization has implemented the best EMS to fulfill the commitment to environmental protection and to use the Earth’s resources consciously.

The ISO 14001 certification is an internationally accepted certification for EMS, and hence, achieving it will help your business to stand out from the competitors in terms of environmental performance.

Who can get the ISO 14001 certification?

The interest of businesses in environmental management is increasing day by day as impacts and consequences like climate change, global warming, soil depletion, contamination of water, polluting of air pollution are becoming evident. Any business that feels the need to protect the environment with a greener approach and strong policies can get the ISO 14001 certification, regardless it is a small-sized business, an SME, or a large multinational corporation.

How much does the ISO 14001 certification cost?

The costs for getting certified vary with businesses, and it depends on some key factors, which are the size of the business, the type of industry, and the complexities in the processes. Employing the ISO 14001 certification consultants will help in optimizing your costs because they can provide you with a methodical approach and speed up your preparation process for the certification.

Thus, the cost for certification entails the resource costs (resources needed to implement and maintain the EMS), training costs (if training courses are required by you), and the fees of the consultants.

How to obtain the ISO 14001 certification?

We provide a simple 5-step process to make your business fully ready and eligible for ISO 14001 in the shortest possible time.

  1. Initial consultation where our consultants discuss the standard’s requirements and help you understand them.
  2. Formal assessment or gap analysis of your existing environmental practices to find which requirements are not met or half met.
  3. Document preparation involves formulating the EMS according to the ISO 14001 standard by closing all the gaps identified before
  4. Correct implementation of the EMS by deploying the right resources and by ensuring proper training of employees
  5. Internal audit to check whether the EMS complies with the ISO 14001 requirements On completion of the fifth step, i.e., after passing the audit, you can confidently apply for certification and be assured that your business will get certified successfully.

What is the difference between ISO 14001 and 45001?

ISO 14001 focuses on the implementation of an Environmental Management System that helps businesses to reduce or minimize their impacts on the external environment, including natural resources, living habitats in their surroundings, and local communities. ISO 45001, on the other hand, helps organizations to focus on minimizing risks or hazards in their internal environment, i.e., within the workplace. It emphasizes the implementation of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS), which helps to assess, identify, and eliminate risks of occupational injuries and sicknesses at the workplace. The ISO 45001 standard, hence, ensures the safety and well-being of their valuable employees or workers.