ISO 14001 is an international standard for environmental management systems. It provides a framework for organizations to manage their environmental responsibilities, comply with regulations, and improve their environmental performance. The standard can be applied to any organization seeking to manage its environmental impact. It involves commitments from senior management, assessing environmental impacts, setting objectives, implementing programs, monitoring results, and reviewing processes. Some benefits of ISO 14001 certification include improved efficiency, compliance with regulations, and strengthened supplier and customer relationships.

1. ISO 14001

2.  ISO develops International Standards but does not
operate any schemes for assessing conformity with
them.
 ISO is not an auditor, assessor, registrar, or certifier of
management systems, products, services, materials or
personnel, nor does it endorse or control any such
activities performed by other parties.
A Brief About ISO

3.  ISO 14001 is known as a generic management
system standard, meaning that it is relevant to any
organization seeking to improve and manage
resources more effectively.
 ISO 14001 is one of the ISO's most well known
standards.
 All standards are periodically reviewed by ISO to
ensure they still meet market requirements. The
current version of ISO 14001 – ISO 14001:2004 is
under review as of April 2012
Introduction

4. Overview of ISO 9000, ISO
14000 and 14001
 ISO 9000, the quality standard is considered to be a
precedent for ISO 14001. ISO 9000 is well established
quality standard and has a fairly good acceptability.
 The Asian countries which did not adopt ISO 9000 found
themselves at a disadvantage for European market.
 ISO 14000 is a family of standards related
to environmental management that exists to help
organizations (a) minimize how their operations .
negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse
changes to air, water, or land); (b) comply with applicable
laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented
requirements, and (c) continually improve in the above.

5.  ISO 14000 is similar to ISO 9000 quality management in
that both pertain to the process of how a product is
produced, rather than to the product itself. As with ISO
9000, certification is performed by third-party
organizations rather than being awarded by ISO directly.
The ISO 19011 audit standard applies when auditing for
both 9000 and 14000 compliance at once.
 First version finalized and issued in 1996, revised every
five years (2004 current version).
 Market sector created and driven; governments
participate but it is not legislative or regulatory.
 Each participating nation has a committee that develops
consensus and contributes (one vote each, for US it is
ANSI).

6.  14001 is one of the standards in the 14000 series.
 ISO 14001 helps organizations to implement
environmental management.
 Provides the company with a guideline on how
to manage environmental aspects.
 Requires management commitments and
involvement from all employees.

7. An Example
of ISO14001
Certificate

8. List of ISO 14000 series
standards
 ISO 14001 Environmental management systems—
Requirements with guidance for use.
 ISO 14004 Environmental management systems—
General guidelines on principles, systems and
support techniques.
 ISO 14015 Environmental assessment of sites and
organizations.
 ISO 14020 series (14020 to 14025) Environmental
labels and declarations.
 ISO 14030 discusses post production environmental
assessment.

9.  ISO 14031 Environmental performance
evaluation—Guidelines.
 ISO 14040 series (14040 to 14049), Life Cycle
Assessment, LCA, discusses pre-production
planning and environment goal setting.
 ISO 14050 terms and definitions.
 ISO 14062 discusses making improvements to
environmental impact goals.
 ISO 14063 Environmental communication—
Guidelines and examples.
 ISO 14064 Measuring, quantifying, and
reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions.
 ISO 19011 which specifies one audit protocol for
both 14000 and 9000 series standards together.

10. ISO 14000(Series) – The
Basic Principles
Environmental Policy
Planning
Implementation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Review

11. Environmental policy :
A sound environmental policy
reflects the commitment of management in matters
relating to environmental issue.
Planning :
Planning of EMS for audit requires that the
system should be in the form of written plan or mannual
giving detail of work and procedure.
Implementation :
Management of human,financial and natural resources,
Motivation for action, Responsibilities,Documentation,
Operational control, Records and management of
information.

12. Cont.….
Monitoring and evaluation :
EMS demands a mechanism for
measuring performance and evaluation for which a process
has to be evolved that involves testing and verification.
Review :
At Review stage, the organization has to think in
terms of continual improvements of environmental
performance.
Issue to be discussed in the process of review are:
 Suitability of environmental policy;
 Recommendations of audit report;
 New regulations;
 Interest of stakeholders;
 Public awareness and pressures;

14. Benefits of ISO 14001
 Common language for dealing with customers
and suppliers worldwide in B2B.
 Increase efficiency and effectiveness.
 Model for continual improvement.
 Integate with global economy.
 Uniform base for industry sectors.
 Quality suppliers for global supply chains.

15. Transfer of good practice to developing countries
Tools for new economic players
Regional integration
Facilitate rise of services
Sustainable Business
Technical support for regulations
Benefits (cont.)

16. References
 www.iso 14000.com
 www.iso.org
 Book- Environmental Management,
Uberoi