ISO 14000 EMS Certification

ISO 14000, is a standard for EM systems that is applicable to any

business, regardless of size, location or income The standard recognizes that organizations can be concerned about both their own profitability & managing environmental impacts Aim:- is to reduce the environmental footprint of a business and to

decrease the pollution and waste, a business produces

The most recent version of ISO 14001 was released in 2004 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 14001, is the international standard that specifies a process for controlling & improving an organization's environmental performance
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Who does the ISO 14000 standard apply to?

Any organization that wishes to: 1. implement, maintain & improve an EMS 2. assure itself of its conformance with its own stated

environmental policy (i.e. Overall intentions and direction of an

organization related to its environmental performance as formally expressed by top management)

3. demonstrate conformance
4. ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations 5. seek certification of its environmental management system by an external third party organization 6. make a self-determination of conformance
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Major objective of the ISO 14000 series of norms

To promote more effective and efficient environmental

management in organizations and to provide useful and usable

tools - ones that are cost effective, system-based, flexible and reflect the best organizations and the best organizational practices available for gathering, interpreting and communicating environmentally relevant information It offers source of guidance for introducing & adopting EMS based on the best universal practices, in the same way that the ISO 9000 series on quality management systems, which is now

widely applied, represents a tool for technology transfer of the

best available quality management practices.
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Major objective of the ISO 14000 series of norms

ISO 14000 EM standards exist to help organizations minimize

how their operations negatively affect the environment

In structure it is similar to ISO 9000 quality management and both can be implemented side by side. In order for an organization to be awarded an ISO 14001 certificate they must be externally audited by an audit body that has been accredited by an accreditation body

Benefits
Certification to ISO 14001 allows you to:

Demonstrate a commitment to achieving legal and regulatory

compliance to regulators and government Demonstrate your environmental commitment to stakeholders Demonstrate an innovative and forward thinking approach to customers and prospective employees Increase your access to new customers and business partners Better manage your environmental risks, now and in the future Potentially reduce public liability insurance costs

Enhance your reputation

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Steps to certification
Phase 1. Initial policy and planning phase help with interpretation of requirements initial review, gap analysis, objectives facilitation of workshops and seminars planning and policies environmental aspects training needs and training plans

Steps to certification
Phase 2. Implementation phase
management procedures for environmental aspects implementation schedule training and awareness documentation and control: EMS manual, procedures, records, checklist, etc. emergency preparedness and response

Steps to certification
Phase 3. Audit phase audit review-monitoring and evaluation

non-conformance and corrective actions

assistance with external audit, registration and certification Final and very important,

Planning for continual maintenance and improvement

Summary

This means you can identify aspects of your business that impact on the
environment & understand those environmental laws that are relevant to your situation.

The next step is to produce objectives for improvement & a management

programme to achieve them, with regular reviews for continual improvement. 9

Management Role and Functions

planning, organizing, directing, implementing and controlling- All are functions or elements of management

PLANNING
1. involves setting objectives and determining a course of action for achieving these objectives

2. requires that managers be aware of environmental conditions

facing their organization and forecast future conditions 3. It also requires that managers be good decision-makers coordinate effort

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ORGANIZING
1. involves developing an organizational structure and allocating human resources to ensure the accomplishment of objectives 2. also involves the design of individual jobs within the organization 3. involves deciding how best to departmentalize, or cluster jobs into

departments to effectively coordinate effort

LEADING/DIRECTING
1. influencing others toward the attainment of organizational

objectives

CONTROLLING
1. involves ensuring that performance does not deviate from standards
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Green accounting
Is the only solution to the menace of industrial carelessness Green accounting is providing the most widely applicable indicators for the assessment and measurement of economic performance, trends in economic growth and economic social

welfare
It attempts to account for both socio- economic performance and its environmental effects and integrating environmental

effects and integrating environmental concerns into

mainstream economic planning and policies
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Continued
Such accounts can be useful in assesing the sustainability of
economic growth and structural distortion of environmentally unsound production and consumption patterns However, lack of international agreements/ harmony on, how to include natural assets and costs, benefits of their use in national accounts Existence of low statistical capacities for measuring natural resources depletion and environmental quality changes ..

All have resulted in a slow progress in development of green

accounts.
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Green rating project

New concept- GRP by UNDP- it adopts an exhaustive methodology for undertaking each sectoral rating as a reputation incentive program, involves Data collection and dissemination/ distribution Envi. performance analysis & rating: sector specific rating criteria

are developed to benchmark the companies for their envi.

performance Education and awareness: with special emphasis on management

graduates, envi. managers and govt. officials

Advocacy: recognizing outstanding performers as well as highlight companies with poor envi. Performance
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5 programs are running simultaneously to rate the envi.
performance of corporate sector in general and their EMS in particular,

1. Green rating for automobile sector

2. Green rating for pulp & paper sector 3. Green rating for chlor-alkali sector 4. Best corporate policy award 5. Best environmental manager award -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Green Marketing

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