ISO 14001:
The ISO 14001, according to Certification Europe, is a newly revised standard that is internationally recognized environmental management standard that was originally published in 1996. It is considered a systematic framework that manages the intermediate and long term environmental impacts of an organization's products, services, and processes. The ISO 14001 is apart of the ISO 1400 standards that helps minimize the environmental footprint, diminish the risk of pollution incidents, provides operational improvements, ensure compliance with relevant environmental legislation, and develop their business in a sustainable manner. The key benefits of the ISO 14001 Standard include: identifying cost savings with greater emphasis on resource, waste, and energy management, developing the corporate image and credibility, quantify, monitor, and control the impact of operations on the environment now and in the future, ensure legislative awareness and compliance, improve environmental performance of supply chain, protect the company, assets, shareholders, and directors, potentially decrease public liability insurance costs for your organization, and growing access to business partners and potential customers.
ISO 14001 Process Cycle
ISO 9001:
The ISO 9001, according to the International Standard Organization, specifies requirements for a quality management system when an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements and aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. All the requirements of the ISO 9001 are intended to be applicable to any organization, regardless of the type or size, or the products and services it provides. ACS Registrars states that the ISO 9001 ensures that the Quality Management Systems that are adopted work to improve the business as a whole and not just a set of procedures that employees find it hard to understand and manage. Some benefits the ISO 9001 will bring to the company include: providing senior management with an effective management process, sets out areas of responsibility across the organization, communicates a positive message to staff and customers, identifies and encourages more efficient and time saving processes, highlights deficiencies, reduces cost, provides continuous assessment and improvement, and marketing responsibilities. Benefits to customers include: improved quality and service, on time delivery, right time first attitude, fewer returned products and complaints, and independent audits demonstrate commitment to quality.
ISO 9001 Benefits Flow Chart
ISO 18001:
Also referred to as OHSAS 18001, ACS Registrars also states that it is internationally accepted as a method of assessing and auditing occupational health and safety management systems. Developed by leading trade and international standard bodies, it provides a framework for organizations to instigate proper and effective management of health and safety in the workplace. By implementing the OHSAS 18001, organizations are able to minimize risks to their workforce and visitors or external contractors on their premises. Key areas that are assessed in the OHSAS 18001 certification include: management systems, planning and risk assessment, staff training and awareness, communication of safety management systems, response to emergency situations, and monitoring and continual improvement. This is suitable for all types of organizations that want to become more efficient in managing and reducing accidents in the workplace.
ISO 18001 (OHSAS 18001) Steps
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