Fast growing era of Industrialization has created environment risk in different aspect. Considering Global Warming Risk, all the countries have to fulfill its environment commitment. Considering Environmental Crisis, ISO have issued ISO 14001:2015 Standards to deal with environmental issues globally.
Adaption of ISO 14001:2015 should be a strategic Decision of any Organization; Design & Implementation & time required is mainly depend on the following factor;
- Present Policy, Procedure & Practice
Organizational Environmental Issue
- Environmental Objective of organisation
- Scope (Activities, Products or Services) of EMS of Organisation
- Environmental Impact Aspect of organisation
- Legal & Regulatory Requirement
Benefit of ISO 14001:2015 Certification: Considering today’s world concern of global warming and environmental aspect, each country has its commitment towards environmental issues. In such scenario EMS Certification help organisation in much way, some of these may be as below:
- Helps Organisation to reduce waste handling cost.
- Reduces environmental liability risks
- Increases profitability by saving energy & better utilization of natural resources.
- Enhance branding of Organization.
- Continual improvement of environmental performances.
- Process through PDCA (plan Do Check Act)
- Helps to Increase Profitability
- Helps business to ensure better compliance of legal & regulatory requirement.
Roadmap for QMS ISO 14001:2015: Roadmap and plan for ISO 14001::2015 Certification basically depend on various factors, but mainly following are the main factors of the EMS (ISO 14001:2015) Certification.
- Identify the applicability of ISO 14001:2015 to your organisation.
- Make Decision for ISO Implementation/Certification.
- Get skilled team or hire services of consultant.
- Identify GAP Analysis.
- Make Implementation Plan.
- Opt PDCA [Plan-Do-Check-Act] cycle.
- Design, implement, aware about the Environmental Policy, Environmental Objectives, Impact Aspect Study & Documentation
- Establish & evaluate the system and procedure.
- Identify the boundaries of the management system and produce documented procedures as required.
- Ensure these procedures are suitable and adhered to the requirements.
- Once developed, internal audits are needed to ensure the system carries on working.
ISO 14001:2015 CERTIFICATION PROCESS
- Application to GEEV Certification Solutionz and request for quotation
- Review the application
- Agreement between GSC and Client
- Stage 1 Audit
- Stage 2 Audit
- Surveillance Audit
- Special Audit (if required)
- Extension Audit
Integrated Management System:
QMS may be integrated with other similar standards, Family of the management system standards viz:
- QMS- ISO 9001:2015
- EMS-ISO 14001:2004
- OHSAS 18001;2007
- ISO 22000:2005
- ISO 20001:2005
- ISO 27001:2013
- HACCP
The incredible impact of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 on organizational practices and on trade has stimulated the development of other ISO standards and deliverables that adapt the generic management system approach to specific sectors or aspects. Some of these are given below:
| Sector | Standard or series of standards |
| Automotive | ISO/TS 16949:2009 |
| Customer satisfaction | ISO 10002:2004, ISO/TS 10004:2010 |
| Education | IWA 2:2007 |
| Energy | ISO 50001, TC 242 |
| Food safety | ISO 22000:2005 |
| Information security | ISO/IEC 27001:2005 |
| Health care | IWA 1:2005 |
| Local government | IWA 4:2009 |
| Medical devices | ISO 13485:2003 |
| Petroleum and gas | ISO/TS 29001:2007 |
| Risk | ISO 31000:2009 |
| Ship recycling | ISO 30000:2009 |
| Supply chain security | ISO 28000:2007 |