The reasons for wanting to do this are many and varied. But when it comes to the environment, you want to minimise your impact. You usually want to maximise everything to do with your organisation, like brand awareness, revenue and profits. This guide is not a substitute for the standard itself nor for the expert guidance of a professional, but it will help demystify some of the more difficult-to-grasp aspects of ISO 14001. So, this guide takes a more holistic approach to minimise the need to jump back and forth. ISO standards sometimes artificially separate important topics but in the real world you won’t find it works like that in your workplace. This guide doesn’t go through the standard line by line. You should read this document alongside the standard. You will also find practical advice on measures you might want to consider implementing in your organisation. This guide looks at all the clauses and main sub clauses and describes them in plain English. So occasionally an ISO standard can seem vague, and sometimes lapse into jargon. That’s a lot to do with the fact that a standard has to be written in a way that applies to all organisations of every size, in every sector, in every location around the world.
If you’ve never looked at an ISO standard before, it may appear daunting.
It is not a set of procedures and targets - they are for you to establish in a way which is relevant to your organisation and the context in which you operate.
That is not correct.Īn ISO standard is the document which contains a set of requirements (with some occasional guidance) for the framework of your management system. Many people new to management systems are under the impression that an ISO standard is a set of rules that dictates how an organisation should go about its business.
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