ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM

ISO 14000 Series Standards

•Introduction

• Organizational Evaluation Standards

• Product Evaluation Standards

•Concepts of ISO 14001

 Introduction
ISO-International Organization for Standardization

The ISO’s most widely known standards;

ISO 9000 family : Quality management standards –help to work more efficiently and
reduce product failures

ISO 14000 family : Environmental management standards – to help reduce

environmental impacts , reduce waste and be more sustainable.
 ISO 14000 Series Standards (ISO family)

Organizational Evaluation Standards

Environmental Management Environmental Performance

System Environmental Auditing Evaluation
14001 Specification Guidelines ISO 19001 14031 Guidelines
14004 General Guidelines
• Environmental Management System(EMS)
“specifications and guidance for use”
This Standard is the heart of the standards will be discussed in the session
ISO 14001 Specification-Gives the elements that Organisations are
required to conform to get registration certificate

ISO 14004 General Guidelines-Provides supplementary material . It is

only for information and not used for registration . On “Principles , Systems ,
and Supporting Techniques”
• Environmental Auditing(EA)
14010 General Principles
14011 Audit Procedures
14012 Auditor Criteria

• Environmental Performance Evaluation

Helps the organisation to meet the requirements of
ISO 14001,monitoring,and measuring
 ISO Family

Product Evaluation Standards

Environmental Labelling
Environmental Aspects in 14020 Basic Principles
Life Cycle Assessment
14021 Self Declaration
Product Standards 14040 Principles and Framework
14023 Testing and Verification
Guide 64 EAPS Guide 14044 Requirements and Guidelines
14024 Third Party
• Environmental Aspects in Product Standards(EASP)
Designed to help writers to develop product standards.

• Environmental Labelling (EL)

ISO 14020 Basic Principles-Provides guidance on the goals
and principles that should be used in all labelling programs
ISO 14021 Self Declaration-Ensures that this type of labelling
is accurate , verifiable , and not deceptive
ISO 14024 Third party-establishes criteria for third party labelling
is accurate, verifiable , and not deceptive
• Life Cycle Assessment

ISO14040 Principles and Framework-Provides an overview of

the practice , applications and limitations of life cycle assessment.

ISO 14044 Requirements and Guidelines-specifics

requirements and provides guidelines for LCA,LCI and LCIA(life
cycle impact assessment)
Concepts of ISO
14001: Environmental
Policy
PDCA

Planning

Management Continual Implementation

Review Improvement And operation

Checking and Corrective

Action
• Environmental Policy
Prevention of pollution:
Compliance with environment laws and regulation Education and
training for environment management should ensure that the policy is
implemented and carried out
• Planning
1)environmental aspect,
2)legal and other requirements,
3)objectives and targets , and
4) environmental management program(s)
• Implementation and Operation
1) Structure and responsibility
2) training , awareness , and competency
3) communication
4) EMS documentation
5)document control
6)operational control and
7)emergency preparedness and response.

• Checking and Corrective Action

1) monitoring and measuring
2) non conformance and corrective and prevention action
3) records and
4)EMS audit.
• Management Review
1) scope
2) normative references
3)definitions
4)EMS requirements
Companies in world having
ISO14000 Certificates
Japan(2,600),
Germany(1,600),
UK(1,200),
Taiwan(500),
USA(590)
Netherlands(475),
Korea(460),
Switzerland(400),
France(360)
India (79)
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