ISO14001 certification

What is the ISO14001 environmental management system?
Social and economic development has brought serious environmental pollution and ecological damage, the public has been aware of the risks of environmental issues, environmental protection began to incorporate it in the agenda, and will affect economic development and international trade. ISO14001 system for various organizations, recording and storage of an effective environmental management system provides a framework to demonstrate the organization's products or services that can meet the requirements of customers and the relevant environmental legislation.
Organizations to fulfill and meet increasingly tough environmental regulations are facing significant pressures; To effectively address these environmental issues, organizations can introduce environmental management systems.
ISO14001 for any global standard organization of environmental management, environmental improvement through organizational activities, products and services related to the problem, the concept of environmental protection into the enterprise, and shaping good corporate image. ISO14001 provides a systematic analysis of the management methods, through the "planning, implementation, evaluation and improvement" management model to achieve sustainable development goals. While concerned about the significant environmental impact assessments and controls to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, prevent environmental accidents, thereby reducing the environmental risks.
At present, all companies use environmental management system standard ISO14001: 2004 edition.
2, the implementation of ISO14001 benefits:
Establish and implement a good environmental management system, not only to ensure that the organization can more effectively manage its environmental impact, more enterprises to bring considerable business benefits. Environmental management can respond to the issues affect their own interests, and the company should be in a sound operating strategy, and to make immediate response to emergencies.
- Systematically reduce and control waste and hazardous substances, thereby improving the utilization of raw materials
- To improve product performance and production processes ,, thus reducing production costs
- Comply with local environmental regulations, reduce the risk of illegal and punished
- Improve the public image and credibility, to increase market share and improve competitiveness
- Improve and increase internal communication, staff motivation
- To improve environmental awareness and management quality of staff, improve internal management level
How to get ISO14001 certification
Enterprise (or other organization) If you want to obtain the ISO14001 certificate, you first need the help of an advisory body, the environmental management system established after running for three months in this system to a third party certification body for certification, the certification body in accordance with the fair, reasonable, normative principles, to establish their environmental management system for review, if qualified, the certification body will issue a certificate, if failed, the CB will open a nonconformity, corrective enterprises and enterprises to track audit, If you qualified to issue certificates.
 
ISO14001 main content
 
Chinese name ISO14001 environmental management systems - Specification with guidance for use, in September 1996 officially promulgated. ISO14001 is the organization planning, implementation, regulatory inspection, review the operation of the environmental management system, the system comprises five parts, 17 elements. Five major contents are summarized as follows: five major means: ① ② Environmental Policy Planning Implementation and operation ③ ④ ⑤ Inspection and corrective action management review
This section contains five basic process of establishing an environmental management system and the establishment of a planned post-assessment and continuous improvement cycle to ensure continuous improvement and improve the environmental management system within the organization.
Elements 17 means:
1. Environmental Policy
2. Environmental Factors
3. Legal and other requirements
4. The goals and targets
5. Environmental management program
6. Institutional and responsibilities
7. Training, awareness and capacity
8. Information Exchange
9. The environmental management system documentation
10. File Management
11. Run control
12. Emergency preparedness and response
13. Monitoring
14. violation, corrective and preventive action
15. Records
16. Environmental management system audit
17. Management Review
ISO14001 environmental management system has the following characteristics:
① emphasize legal compliance: ISO14001 standard requires the implementation of the standards organization's top management must be committed to comply with environmental laws and regulations and other requirements related;
② emphasize pollution prevention: Pollution prevention is the basic guiding ideology ISO14001 standards from the source shall first consider how to prevent and reduce the generation of pollution, rather than the end of treatment;
③ emphasize continuous improvement: ISO14001 does not require absolute standards of conduct, on the basis of compliance with laws and regulations on enterprises to themselves and their ratio, continuous improvement, namely to do today than yesterday and tomorrow better than today to do;
④ stressed that systematic, procedural and administrative support necessary documentation;
⑤ voluntary: ISO14001 standards are not mandatory standards, businesses can choose according to their needs whether to implement;
⑥ authentication of: ISO14001 standard can be used as a third-party audit and certification basis, so enterprises through the establishment and implementation of ISO14001 standards available third-party audit certification;
⑦ broad applicability: ISO14001 standard applies not only to companies but also applicable to any type of public institutions, businesses, government agencies, private institutions and other organizations.