ISO 14001

ISO 14001 is International organization for standardization 14001 Environmental Management System-Specifications EMS. It describes practices for environment management. It is an extension of ISO 9001 standards. ISO 14001 is mainly an environmental policy defined by top management of the organization. These standards were established in 1996. if an organization is already ISO certified with ISO certification then time and cost to implement ISO 14001 standards will considerably get reduced. The various activities in international standard ISO 14001 which an organization has to implement:

Planning
Implementation
Corrective action
Audit

For ISO 14001 implementation it is important to get commitment from top management. Then commitment means the organization will implement those standards with in that timeline and maintain those standards in its organization. These standards are established because of following reasons:

Improvement in environmental quality
Safety
Pollution free
Reduce penalties
Continual improvement
Human health
Lower compliance costs
improve compliance

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