Nowadays more and more companies are beginning to understand the significant impact their operations have on the environment, both on a local and global scale. Having realized how important their actions are, many of the organizations are determined to do whatever they can to protect the environment and prevent pollution. The international environmental management system ISO 14001:2004 has been developed to help all types of organization to establish and maintain their own sustainable environmental management system through unifying their business and environmental preservation activities. More than 120 000 organizations comply with the requirements of EMS and thus they prove their environmental commitment.

ISO 14001 provides directions to organizations in order to:

• Reduce the negative impact of their activities on the environment

• Establish and implement procedures to identify the environmental aspects of organization’s activities, products and services

• Establish, maintain and achieve the environmental objectives which have been set

• Ensure its conformity to the stated organization’s environmental policy

• Prove their conformity with the requirements of this international standard

 

On a world scale there are strict legal, normative and social requirements related to environment preservation. As these requirements should be met by organizations, ISO 14001 helps organizations establish, implement and maintain procedures to identify and clarify all requirements related to the environmental aspects of the particular organization.

ISO 14001:2004 ensures that an organization strives for development and continual improvement in the sphere of environmental preservation.

• Ensures that the organization strictly follows the requirements of an internationally recognized standard.

• Ensures that the organization’s environmental management model is internationally acknowledged.

• The standard can be easily integrated along with other management standards.