purpose

ISO 14000 is being designed to achieve several purposes:

• To make it more difficult for countries to use

environmental issues as trade barriers.

• To create a universal set of standards to help businesses

meet their commitment to the environment

• To allow companies to avoid multiple registrations,

inspections and certifications as their products cross

from country to country.

Several parts of the standard have been accepted or

are currently under review by ISO subcommittees

and participating countries

 Areas
• To accomplish these purposes, the ISO 14000 standards

• will address five major areas:

• • General corporate policies and procedures governing

• environmental management systems.

• • Auditing.

• • Performance evaluation.

• • Environmental labeling.

• • Life-cycle assessment.
 Iso 14000mconcepts
• • Is a management standard, it is not

• performance or product standard.

• • The underlying purpose of ISO 1400 is that

• companies will improve their environmental

• performance by implementation but there are

• no standards for performance or level of

• improvement

• • It is a process for managing company

• activities that impact the environment.

 CHARACTERISTICS OF ISO 14000
• 1. COMPREHENSIVE- all members of the

• organization participate n environmental

• protection, the EMS considers stakeholders and

• there are processes to identify all environmental

• impacts.

• 2. PRO ACTIVE- it focuses on forward thinking and

• action instead of reacting to command and

• control policies

• 3. SYSTEMS APPROACH- it stresses improving

• environmental protection by using single

• environmental management system

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS
• 1. An environmental policy supported by the top management.

• 2. Identification of environmental aspects and significant impacts.

• 3. Identification of legal and other requirements

• 4. Environmental goals, objectives and targets that support the policy.

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• 5. An environmental management program

• 6. Definition of roles, responsibilities and authorities\

• 7. Training and awareness procedures

• 8. Process of communication of the EMS to all interested

parties.

• 9. Document operational procedures

• 10. Procedures for the emergency response

10. Procedures for monitoring and measuring

operations that can have significant impacts

on the environment.

11. Procedures of non-conformance

12. Record management procedures

13. A program for auditing and corrective action

14 . Procedures for management review

 Benefits of iso 14000
• 1. . OPERATIONS

• 2. MARKETING

• 3. Increased profits

• 4. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

• 5. SOCIAL