Environmental Management
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1. Benefits of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Certification
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2. The Importance of an Environmental Management System
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3. Be Familiar with the Most Popular Environmental Management Systems
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4. System The ISOManual Environmental Management
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5. Design Your Own Manual Using The Environmental Management System Sample From The ISO Series
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Benefits of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Certification Nowadays, caring for the environment is becoming a necessity. There are many groups and organizations that are now pushing for greener life. Even businesses are not exempted from joining this advocacy through the introduction of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) Companies and organizations, especially those in line with the production of goods, are mandated to strictly conform to environmental regulations. Such regulations would include saving energy consumption and managing wastes. With the introduction of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System System,, companies can now have the opportunity to streamline their process for them to be able to comply with these regulations. If you are a big time businessman, ISO 14001 EMS can help your business in many ways. Firstly, with it, you could review your current operations and effectively measure its en environmental vironmental impact. With ISO 14001 systematic methodology, you could effectively conduct operation assessments and
repeat this often for continuous improvement.
Moreover, once you are certified by ISO 14001, you will be given an EMS Manual. This manual will serve as your guide to evaluate the system that has been newly implemented together with the ISO 14001 certification. It would also serve as your EMS checklist, for you to be guided on the environmental standards that your business should be following strictly. Take note that ISO 14001 EMS is an internationally recognized certification body. Being certified with ISO 14001 would mean your business is
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concerned with how it affects our environment. This will help you boost your brand and corporate image and give you an edge over competitors. Being certified with ISO 14001 would help your business become more customer‐driven while maintaining your reliability. This is good, especially when you are attracting or retaining clients that only trust businesses that comply with environmental standards. Your ISO 14001 EMS certificate would also serve as a proof that you are complying with environmental laws mandated by the government. As the evaluation during the certification is done, you are able to streamline your operations by eliminating processes that are related to high waste and energy output. This would bring huge savings to your business in the long run. The good thing is that once you are certified by ISO 14001, you will not have a problem on getting certified again once you have expanded your business to other territories. The certificate will be applicable as long as the same processes are involved. Always remember that with ISO 14001 EMS, you are not only improving your business, but contributing to the good cause of protecting our environment, as well.
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The Importance of an Environmental Management System Today, businesses are required to have an environmental management system in place. It is considered an important part of running a company responsibly. In fact, having an environmental management system will help your company performance as well as image. In today’s business atmosphere, a company that is more eco‐ friendly is preferred more by clients and customers. So what exactly is an environmental man management agement system (EMS)? It refers to your company's environmental policies and its complete systematic response so that they can be handled and documented appropriately. In order to build an EMS for your business, it is best that you start out by developing a policy that goes over your environmental standards and proceed with finding out how to address these issues and problems effectively. It should be designed in a manner where all the environmental concerns and affairs that your company will face can be approached systematically. An ordered and consistent approach will allow for easier setup of both immediate and long‐term goals for your company and the environment. It must start with developing a policy statement that will show how you plan to commit to these goals. A defining part of your environmental policy is deciding what kind of significant environmental impact you should be aware of in your company. This way, you can determine which of your company’s activities, services, and pro production duction systems can cause the most problems or impact to the
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environment. From here, you can create specific environment‐based goals and objectives that your company would want to achieve. Once this internal environmental policy is established, the next step is to plan out how you are going to use it in your company. This step is vital for strategy implementation. By planning out an effective way of how the EMS will work within your company’s setup, it will be easier for your company to overcome obstacles and stumbling blocks that might hinder your progress. The next step is full integration and implementation. This way, the policy becomes second nature to your company, which means the policy is being followed and used in the way it was intended and developed. Companies with an EMS often strive to obtain an ISO 14001 certification. This certification is a globally accepted standard for environmental protection, which addresses standards for businesses in various types of industries. In order to obtain this certification, organizations must already have an EMS in place and operating efficiently. It should also abide by all laws and procedures outlined in the ISO 14001 framework. Therefore, prior to setting up your EMS, it is better to develop it using the ISO 14001 framework. By following these elements, your company can easily develop an effective EMS.
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Be Familiar with the Most Popular Environmental Management Systems Are you aware of the two most renowned environmental management systems (EMS)? These two are the ISO 14001 and the Eco‐ Management Audit Scheme (EMAS). If you are a businessman, then you should know these two – that is, if you want your business to comply with environmental standards. ISO 14001 and EMAS are both environmental management systems which aim to evaluate organizational systems to improve operations and regulate harmful impacts to the environment. Both certification bodies had proven that their methodologies are the most effective among the EMS present in terms of environmental program management. However, it is very important to distinguish how these two differ. EMAS was originally created in 1995 to set EMS to the industrial organizations in the European Union. For six years, it has been a management tool for performance improvement that is exclusive to the industrial sector. It was specifically formulated to meet the requirements of the said organizations in the European Union. Even if it was introduced to be non‐compulsory, EMAS eventually gained a legal status and became a regulatory system for the European Union member‐countries. All organizations in the European Union were mandated to follow the standards of EMAS. All rules and regulations related to EMAS were only applicable to organizations in the European Union. On th the e other hand, ISO 14001 is part of the ISO 14000 family of standards that are created by International Organization for Standardization. Coming
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from an internationally recognized certification body, the ISO 14001 is generally accepted in any country worldwide. ISO 14001 methodology would include environmental performance evaluation, process life cycle assessment, environmental auditing and other related investigations. The systems and standards of ISO 14001 are created to become applicable to all types of organization in different states of economy and government. Unlike EMAS, representatives from different countries have developed this certification body to form voluntary environmental standards and systems that are widely accepted across the globe. ISO 14001 was never portrayed to be regulatory. After fourteen years of being a restrictive to the industrial sector only, EMAS was redefined in 2009 to cater to a wider scope of rules and regulations. The new methodology and EMS of EMAS was created to be applicable to all types of organizations. Like ISO, EMAS certification is also acceptable now in any country worldwide. EMAS has improved in terms of scope, but it still retains its strict nature of implementing environmental compliance. ISO 14001 certification is now even required before you can be registered in EMAS. Nevertheless, its goal to maintain environmental compliance and process efficiency still remains. If you are really serious in branding your business as "green," you should have either of these EMS.
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The ISO Environmental Management System Manual
The origin of the concept of environmental management system can be tracked down to as early as 1972, when the Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm was organized by the United Nations. This also happened the same time that United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was launched, but the environment management system manual started only in the early nineties. The initiatives that started these new concepts also paved the way for the rise of World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). With all these developments and initiatives concerning environmental standards, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was able to come up with the template for the creation of ISO 1400 series in 1996. Since then, the environment management system manual has evolved its series and is now used by hundreds of organizations in hundreds of economies and countries worldwide.
So what is the series and what is its significance? is a manual corresponds toISO a set of standards that organizations This worldwide abidethat by with respect to effective environmental management systems. Its aim is to supply principles and additional guidelines to ensure efficient environmental management. The major objective of this system is to provide practical and functional tools for organizations. These tools are system‐based, flexible, and cost‐ effective. It reflects the best organizational practices obtainable for
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gathering, translating, interpreting and conveying environmentally significant information. This tool and data does not actually dictate how an organization’s culture should behave. It merely presents a core set of standards that organizations
can use to actually design and implement their management system. These can be incorporated withown an effective organization’s other functions. It is employed with the company’s standard in meeting their economic and environmental goals. These set of standards can be deployed in various levels in the business, from the top organizational level right down to service and production level. The core idea is not to get exact measures for their environmental performance, but to highlight standards needed to meet the organizational goals with regards to environmental awareness. However, the success of this program or set of standards still depends on how committed the organizations are in designing and developing their own environmental culture. The ISO goal is primarily just to assist the companies in reducing if not totally eliminating their environmental impact. If used appropriately, organizations will be able to reap a number of benefits which includes higher conformance with legal and governmental requirements.
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Design Your Own Manual Using the Environmental Management System Sample from The ISO Series The ISO series was created and developed in the early nineties with the goal to decrease environmental impact in businesses, organizations and even governments. Because of production and even in the course of delivering service, we cannot deny that businesses leave environmental footprints behind. Organizations, businesses and governments need to be environmentally sustainable for the world to survive a couple more thousands of years. The set of standards offered by the ISO series promotes the decrease ‐ if not total elimination – of wastes made in business production. It is also hoped that pollution can be eliminated in the long run. These things are actually inevitable when running an organization, a business or a country, but there are ways to at least decrease the impact and delay the total decay of Mother Nature. The major goal of the ISO series is not to change a company’s culture and customs. Rather, it aims to be used as a guide for companies, organizations and government to design and build their own set of standards that are environmental friendly. These are just guidelines to be followed so that there is a direct standard to draw from when creating their own processes. An environmental management system sample is the use of industrial automation in the business. It consists of different equipment types for custom‐testing, automation of the process and industrial automation, respectively. The purpose is to generate digital and other mechanical
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alternatives in solving problems in the manufacturing process. This is also very useful in product development and quality control. Another environmental management system sample is having a distributed control system. It is a kind of industrial automation systems used by a
number of processes in the the area of manufacture. consists of one or more controller distributed into system itself. TheIt entire system however relies on the continuation of communication and its monitoring networks. There are a lot more of these automation systems and processes available for use. These generally create a great impact on various aspects in the manufacturing process. These processes are important because they decrease lead time and still get higher quality production output. The most important factor in the creation and design of your organization’s own manual is using the ISO standard of processes. The ISO standard sets the benchmark for reaching your production goals effectively while decreasing impact on our environment – a system that all businesses aim to adapt and implement not only because they have to, but because they get significantly increased returns if they do.
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