Chapter 6. Environmental Management Standards

ISO14001

Environmental management is a challenge for many organisations and an international standard for effective environmental management has emerged over the last 15 years. Modelled on aspects of ISO9001 (which has now been taken up by nearly one million organisations worldwide), ISO14001 is the best practice standard for the systematic management of an organisation’s environmental impacts.

ISO14001 is the international specification for an environmental management system (EMS). It is broken down into five sections[57]:

  1. General requirements

  2. Environmental policy

  3. Planning implementation and operation

  4. Checking and corrective action

  5. Management review

It is relevant to all organisations, in all sectors, and ...

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