ISO 14001 standard – دانش انطباق سیستم

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Introduction to ISO 14001

The ISO 14001 standard is called the Environmental Management System standard. This standard seeks to create requirements for organizations that want to be environmentally friendly and cause the least pollution and damage to their surroundings.

This standard is a system for guiding and controlling an organization with the environment in mind.

ISO 14001: Environmental Management System
The ISO 14000 family of standards includes international standards related to environmental systems. An environmental management system is a tool that enables an organization to achieve the level of environmental performance it determines and to control it systematically. The aforementioned standard ensures the quality of products and services provided in terms of harmonization with environmental requirements and their preservation.

This system includes organizational structure, planning activities, defining responsibilities, determining methods and processes, as well as acquiring the necessary resources to prepare, implement, review and maintain the organization’s environmental policy. Any organization, regardless of its type or sector of activity, can use this standard. Using this standard provides confidence to the company’s management, its employees and external stakeholders that environmental impacts have been measured and improved.
By means of this standard, as an effective and active element in the management system, it improves the organization’s environmental performance, makes the management system coherent and standardized, coordinates the implementation and management of affairs, familiarizes managers with problem-solving methods, and identifies existing structural obstacles. This standard is flexible and its components are realistically selected according to the characteristics of each organization as well as the laws and environmental conditions of each country. It is established with the aim of establishing an environmental management system in the existing system of an organization, company, etc., in order to identify environmental problems and risks related to the organization’s activities in different parts in a targeted and systematic manner and then categorize them. In the next stage, specific programs are developed in accordance with the priorities made to control and reduce the aforementioned risks and problems, in which the scope of activity, time of completion, responsibilities and methods of performing the work are precisely specified.

History of the Environmental Management System Standard
In 1989, the Resolution on Climate Protection was approved at the forty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Introduction to ISO 14001
In 1992, the Rio Declaration, known as Agenda 21, was issued at the International Conference on Environment and Development.

On April 6, 1992, the British Standards Institution BSI published the BS 7750 standard under the title of Environmental Management System, which was completed in April 1993 and its final version was issued by certification companies for EMS (Environmental Management System) certification in 1994.
Other countries immediately followed suit, for example, France.
AFNOR 30-200 and Southern Ireland published and implemented the IS 310 standard.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) took the first step in developing a global EMS standard in 1993 by forming Technical Committee 207 under the chairmanship of Canada, and in 1996, it published the first series of these standards under the title ISO 14001.
In 2004, the ISO 14001 standard was revised for the first time.
The ISO 14001:2004 standard did not differ much from the ISO 14001:1996 standard and was more focused on clarification and compliance with the ISO9001 standard.
After the revision of the ISO 9001 standard in 2015, the ISO 14001 standard was also revised after about 10 years. In the new edition, there were minor changes to the standard and the concept of the product life cycle was added in the 2015 version. The number of clauses in this standard was also increased to 10 clauses. Of course, these 10 clauses can be considered an extension of the previous 4 clauses that have been changed in order to be closer to the 9001 standard.
The ISO 14001 standard is a general standard that all organizations can receive, regardless of size, service or manufacturing.

The purpose of ISO 14001
is to create a suitable environment for organizations to understand environmental concepts and apply different methods in planning, implementing and controlling organizational processes in consideration of the environmental approach and leads to the reduction of environmental pollutants.

Application of ISO 14001
is applicable to all organizations and various bodies regardless of their type or sector of activity.

Benefits of ISO 14001
• Pollution prevention
• Globally, entering into environmental management systems will create comprehensive agreement and create credibility and acceptance
• Reuse of materials
• Reducing the risk of the organization’s environmental activities
• Strengthening the company’s image in the field of national and international competition
• Controlling costs and optimal use of raw materials, energy and natural resources
• Optimal use of natural resources
• Elimination of duplication
• Saving costs and time due to a systematic and forward-looking approach
• Reducing complaints, fines and penalties
• Increasing satisfaction in the environment and motivating employees
• Gaining a competitive advantage compared to competitors
• Establishing good relationships with customers as a supplier of products or services
• Compliance with national and related environmental laws

DAS/Danesh Entafaq System Company can issue this standard with accreditation from UKAS England and the National Accreditation Center of Iran (NACI).