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Requirements of ISO 14001
ISO 14001 is a voluntary international standard developed by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO), based in Geneva, Switzerland. At its core,
it sets the requirements for establishment of an
Environmental Management
System
. The following diagram shows the environmental impacts and sphere of
the environmental management system:
Industrial Ecology
Design for Environment
Waste Minimization
Raw Material
Energy Design
Waste Treatment
Pollution Prevention
The implementation of ISO 14001 is a cyclic process requiring the development
of a comprehensive environmental policy statement, a planning process to
operationalize the policy, its implementation and operation, checking and
implementing corrective action if needed, and management review, which feeds
back to rewriting the environmental policy statement. The following diagram is
a pictorial representation of that process:
Develop Policy Statement
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