ISO14001 Environmental Management System Certification

What is ISO 14001 Environmental Management System

An ISO 14001 environmental management system is a systematic and process driven approach to controlling those aspects of your business that have a significant impact on the environment.

The system is proven to make business owners and managers be more aware of their environmental responsibilities, including legal and regulatory accountabilities, and being able to manage and control the associated risks.

An environmental management system can be applied to any business of any size, in any given sector, to demonstrate the company’s commitments to on-going environmental issues both on a local and national scale. More specifically it can help you reduce your waste and carbon footprint significantly, therefore lowering you environmental liability.

ISO 14001 standards

ISO 14001 standard provides guidance on how to consider multiple aspects of your business procurement, storage, distribution, product development, manufacturing, etc.- so that it reduces its impact on the environment. It also drives you to evaluate how you manage emergency response, customer expectations, stakeholders and your relationships with your local community.

Depending on how your organization operates today, this may not require a lot of change beyond documenting what and how you do or it may mean a number of changes that can result in a more efficient business, cost or waste reductions and give stakeholders peace of mind.

Why Do ISO 14001 Certification?

1. Use the reduce, reuse and recycle approach to make tangible cost reductions as well the potential to reduce taxes and liability insurances

2. Enhance your company image and improve your green credentials within the local community and to potential investors

3. Reduce the impact of your business activities on the environment through best practice management

4. Increase the motivation of your environmentally conscious employees

5. Increase environmental awareness amongst the entire workforce

6. Actively reduces environmental risks and prevents incidents to both employees and the local environment

Implement ISO14001 environmental management system process：

First stage：Establish and implement ISO14001 environmental management system stage

1) The organization shall establish and implement the ISO14001 environmental management system, which shall firstly conform to the requirements of ISO14001 standard in form.

2) Do an initial environmental review.

3) Complete environmental management system planning

4) Prepare ISO14001 system documents

5) Operating environment management system

The second stage：The certification and forensics stage

After internal audit and management review, if its environmental management system meet the requirements of ISO14001 standard, has good applicability for organization, and sufficient and effective operation, then can submit the application to the body have obtained the certification committee of China's environmental management system certification body recognized certification qualification authentication institutions, and sign contract, enter the stage of ISO14001 environmental management system certification audit stage.

What documents is required for ISO14000 Certification：

1. The applicant shall have established a documented environmental management system and shall operate well

2. The applicant has no major environmental pollution accident this year, and the pollutant does not exceed the standard seriously

The applicant shall submit the following documents one month in advance of the scheduled date of certification review：

1. Organizational profile；

2. Application form；

3. Copy of business license；

4. Monitoring reports and standards for pollutant discharge to be enforced by the certification body；

5. Geographical location map；

6. Plane location map；

7. Main technological process and pollutant production diagram；

8. Environmental assessment rescriptum，inspection report；

9. Environmental Management Manua, Procedure documents

10. Overview of environmental management system, including system coverage, system running time, operation performance, internal audit and management review time, etc.