ISO 14001 CERTIFICATE
ISO 14000 series is an Environmental Management Standard developed by ISO Standard Development Committee TC207. This series is designed to cover all environmental aspects in organizations and it is a source to manage these effects by determining company’s environmental effect priorities.
ISO 14001 Standard is the determination of the necessary conditions for an environmental management system by taking the important environmental effects into account with the conditions stipulated in the legislation in order to enable them to determine their own policies and objectives. ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard covers the environmental aspects that organizations can control and/or have influence on.
HISTORY OF IS0 14001 STANDARD
The principles of the European Union in 1973 They have published the action plan I (to implement environmental protective measures)
BS 7750 Standard in 1992
Rio Declaration in 1992
ISO/TC 207 to develop Standards of 14000 family by ISO in 1993. Environmental Management Technical Committee was established
1994 TS 9719 standard (Environmental Management Systems - General Features)
ISO 14001 standard in 1996
ISO 14001 SERIES
ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems Features and User Guide
- ISO 14004 Environmental Management - Environmental Management Systems - Environmental Management Principles Guide - Systems and Supporting Techniques-
- ISO 14010 Environmental Management - Environmental Audit Guide - General Principles of Environmental Auditing
- ISO 14011 Environmental Management –Environmental Audit Guide Auditing Procedure-Part 1- Auditing of Environmental Management Systems ISO 14012 Environmental Management –The Features That Environmental Auditors Should Have
- ISO 14020 Environmental Management-Basic Principles of Environmental Labelling
- ISO 14030 Environmental Performance (draft)
- ISO 14040 Environmental Management-Lifelong Assessment- General Principles and Practices
Principles of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
Entering Into Obligation and Policy: The organization should assign its environmental policy and ensure commitment to the environmental management system.
Planning: The organization should determine the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services, and select the important ones. In order to realize its commitments, it should set goals and targets, and program the activities that it will perform to achieve these goals and targets.
Implementation and Process: The organization should develop a support mechanism with the necessary skills and opportunities in order to realize an environmental policy and to achieve an effective implementation to achieve its goals and targets.
Control and Corrective Action: The organization should measure, monitor and evaluate the environmental performance and the degree of success in this performance.
Review and Development: The organization should review and continuously improve its environmental management system in order to improve its overall environmental performance and overall degree of success in that performance.
Benefits of Implementing ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
- Increasing compliance with national and/or international regulations
- Improving environmental performance
- Being prepared for emergencies (earthquake, fire, flood etc.) and accidents, and minimizing the incidents such as accident resulting in liability
- Controlling and reducing pollution by starting from the source
- Ensuring input materials and energy saving
- Facilitating the obtaining of permits and authorization documents
- Ensuring acceptability in the global market since it is a common language known and used worldwide
- The impact of company's activities on the environment and environmental risks can be determined and controlled, and thereby the factors that negatively affect the environment can be minimized.
- By means of the trainings given to the company's personnel, the environmental awareness increases in the employees.
- Working in a business that does not harm the environment motivates the employees.
- This provides prestige to the organization by providing recognition both in the national and international arena.
- The environmental expectations of the consumer are met and the chance to reach and win conscious consumers increases.
- The wastes released to the environment are reduced.
Terms and Concepts Related to ISO 14001
Continuous improvement: is the continuous improvement of the organization's environmental management system to ensure developments in the overall environmental performance in accordance with the environmental policy of the organization.
Environment:is the environment in which an organization carries out its activities, including air, water, soil, natural resources, plant community (flora) animal community (fauna), people and their relations.
Environmental dimension: are the elements of the organization, its activities, products or services that interact with the environment.
Environmental impact: any positive or negative changes in the environment that arise partially or completely due to the activities, products and services of the organization.
Environmental policy: is the declaration of the organization to explain its intentions and principles regarding the general environmental performance and to form a framework with its activities, environmental goals and targets.
Prevention of pollution: re-commissioning, other processing, modification of the process, the effective use of control mechanisms, resources, implementing any kind of process and practice as to include material substitution, the use of material or product for the purpose of preventing, mitigating or controlling pollution.
Sustainable development: briefly, it is to develop by meeting the current needs without preventing the future generations from meeting their own needs.
Lifelong assessment: is a series of procedures for collecting and reviewing information about environmental effects that arise during the life cycle of this system and which can be directly attributed to the system due to the product and services obtained from a certain material and energy within a product and service system.