ISO 14001

The ISO 14001 environmental management standard exists to help organisations minimise their negative effects on the environment (adverse changes to air, water, or land), comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements, and continually improve on the above.

To achieve ISO 14001 organization requires followings:

• Establishment of an appropriate environmental policy.
• Identify the environmental aspects arising from the organizations past, existing or planned activities, products and services, in order to determine the environmental impacts of significance.
• Identify applicable legal requirements and other requirements, to which the organization subscribes.
• Identify priorities and set appropriate environmental objectives and targets.
• Establish a structure and a programme(s) to implement the policy and achieve objectives and meet targets.
• Facilitate planning, control, monitoring, preventive and corrective actions, auditing and review activities to ensure both that the policy is complied with and that the environmental management system remains appropriate
• Be capable of adapting to changing circumstances.

Benefits of ISO 14001:2004

• Process improvement.
• Environmental cost reduction.
• Better relationships with regulators
• Better relationships with insurers, investors, and financial markets
• Product improvement
• Marketing advantages
• Better control of liabilities
• Reduced regulatory burden
• Protection of company image and name
• Demonstration of responsible management

Who is it applicable to?

Organizations of all kinds are increasingly concerned with achieving and demonstrating sound environmental performance by controlling the impact of their activities, products, or services on the environment, taking into account their environmental policy and objectives.

ISO 14001 is intended to apply to all types and sizes of organization and to accommodate diverse geographical, cultural and social conditions.

It provides businesses with a structure for managing environmental operations, and applies to all types and sizes of manufacturing and service operations including, single site to large multi-national companies, high risk companies to low risk service organizations manufacturing, process and the service industries; including local governments, all industry sectors including public and private sectors, original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers. The overall aim of this Standard is to support environmental protection and prevention of pollution in balance with socio-economic needs.

How can AEC help you to achieve ISO 14001: 2004 Certification?

AEC will assist your organization in ISO awareness training, documentation, implementation, internal auditing and overall process optimization as per ISO 14001: 2004 standard. AEC is a result oriented professional training and certification service providers, offering systematic approaches to improve quality and effectiveness of the system and enhance the productivity by offering systematic approaches. Our main objective is to help you and your organization improve profitability, through better utilization of all of your resources