Regardless of which sector they operate, businesses today have to bear many costs due to environmental problems. However, the expenses for the disposal of waste can be reduced. Electricity, gas, fuel and water costs can be saved. Packaging, paper and photocopying can be reduced or reused. Compliance with legal regulations for the environment can be achieved without being aware of.
In order to do these, ISO 14001 Environmental Management System must be established and managed in the enterprise. Only in this way can environmental awareness be created in the enterprise and environmental awareness can be placed in the employees. At the same time, it is possible for the business to be concerned about its carbon footprint.
Today, climate change and ecological balance deteriorate, raising concerns about the future of the globe. That's why more and more businesses are implementing the ISO 14001 standard. They also require ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Certification to prove their efforts to their customers, suppliers and third parties.
ISO 14001 Environmental Management System is a systematic and process-oriented quality management system to control the significant impacts of business activities on the environment. This system allows business owners and managers to become more aware of environmental responsibilities, including legal and regulatory responsibilities, to manage risks correctly and to establish necessary control mechanisms.
Having the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Certificate proves that businesses, their customers and employees are aware of environmental obligations and strive to reduce environmental impacts.
Within this framework, enterprises reduce their costs, reduce their tax and insurance expenses, and adopt a reuse and recycling approach at many points. In this way, potential customers are given the image of an environmental company and green credentials are developed. With this system, businesses reduce the environmental impact of activities.
In particular, customers who are actively interested in environmental performance are assured of working with a company operating in line with the same view. With this document, customers believe that they fulfill their corporate social responsibility and have a forward-looking and environmentally conscious organizational structure.
In this way, motivation of environmentally sensitive employees increases and environmental awareness among employees increases. Environmental risks are actively reduced and environmental problems are avoided both in the employees and in the local environment.
Enterprises with ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and policy have proved that they are sensitive to the environment and take their responsibilities seriously.
Today, plastics are one of the main sources of environmental problems. For this reason, for example, plastic enterprises are looking closely at the environmental impacts of plastic and searching for opportunities to reduce waste. At this point, it designs waste treatment and recycling processes.
The ISO 14001 standard includes best practices including better bargaining for fuel prices, shutting down idle machines and computers, or operating the transport fleet more efficiently. These applications also bring significant cost advantages to enterprises. Some enterprises can even convert waste disposal costs directly to land.
The competitive advantage of the ISO 14001 standard is not even discussed here. Even relatively small enterprises can show a continuous and sustainable growth trend. Many businesses that use this standard as a valuable marketing tool turn their approach into an opportunity.
In short, with the growing need for the protection of the natural environment, government agencies and businesses are under increasing pressure to minimize environmental footprints and promote sustainable development. The ISO 14001 standard has been developed to help businesses identify, manage and control activities with environmental impact. Designed by the International Standards Organization (ISO), this standard was last updated in 2015. Therefore, the current version is ISO 14001: 2015.
This standard has been published by the Turkish Standards Institute with the following title: TS EN ISO 14001 Environmental management systems - Terms and instructions.
According to the results of a recent survey, 28 percent of business owners stated that they are not sure how to determine whether an entity's environmental statement is correct. However, businesses must obtain an ISO 14001 Certificate to ensure that customers are assured that their environmental statements are reliable and regularly audited. The number of enterprises receiving this certificate in the previous year recorded an increase of 12 percent.
With the implementation of the ISO 14001 standard, many businesses change the way they interact with the environment. For example, it reduces its waste, uses less energy, tends to use renewable resources, avoids potential risks, prevents environmental pollution, fulfills its legal obligations and develops the design by considering the product life cycle.
Businesses are cleaner and greener, strengthening the trust of stakeholders, gaining more competitive advantage and gaining safer and longer term sustainability.
The ISO 14001 standard is designed to be compatible with other commonly used ISO 9001 Quality Management System, OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System and ISO 50001 Energy Management System.
Other standards that complement this standard are:
TS EN ISO 14004 Environmental management systems - General guide for implementation
TS EN ISO 14006 Environmental management systems - Guide to Eco-design
TS EN ISO 14031 Environmental management - Environmental performance assessment - Guidance
First, it is determined whether the organization meets the mandatory requirements of the standard and whether to proceed to the next stage.
It is checked whether necessary procedures and audits have been developed and your institution's readiness for evaluation is reviewed.
The findings that arise in the first two stages are evaluated and after all corrective actions are reviewed, document preparation is started.
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