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ISO14001 standard series was prepared by
the International Standards Organization since 1993, it states
the Environmental Management Systems standard. In 1996, the
International Standard Organization has formally published
two standards:
- ISO14001 – Environmental Management System – Standard and Guild
- ISO14001 – Environmental Management System – Principal, System and Technical Support Common Guild
ISO14001 Environmental Management System is a positive response
to the continuous development concept. It is a compulsory
trend in the global environmental protection development.
There are more than a hundred countries have enforced ISO14004
standards at the moment. Environmental Management System
is a set of systemic, programmatic and strong operational
management model. It has high self-limitation, and self-determination
of conformance. It results in enable to influence organization's
environmental management behavior.
| ISO14001 standard fundamental contents: |
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ISO14004 standard emphasis prevention of pollution and continuous
improvement, it requires an organization setup a clear responsibility,
operation regulations, documentation monitoring management
system. The environmental target and index are succeeded
by an effective management scheme and operation procedure
and lead to the successful of the environmental goal. At
the mean time, the environmental goal should evaluate its
implementation status and level of completion, and this should
maintain.
The management elements related to the Environmental Management
System includes organization structure, activities planning,
responsibility, program, procedure and resources etc. It
could be in four parts, 17 elements and quality; employment
health safely etc management system and these are closed
integrated. It still follows the traditional PDCA (Plan,
Do, Check and Act) model.
| Advantages for organization carry out ISO14001 certification: |
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- Make environment and economic develop in
harmony. Erase trade barrier and push international trade
- Convenient for the government monitor and
guide the organization, increase the competitively of product
in the market
- Increase the management level of an organization,
improve the environmental protection concept of the employee
- Improve the operation structure of the organization,
increase the market share and increase the added value
of the product
- Improve the relationship of the local community
and easy to recruit staff
- Reduce the risk of dispute and disaster
crisis so that lower the cost of insurance
- Reduce the cost in cleaning, power consumption
and lower the waste disposal processing cost
- Promote the product reformation, improve
technical level, and increase product characteristic
- Establish a good community impression, easy
to obtain financial and community support
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