一、 Overview
Basic introduction
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), based on the need to promote environmental protection and achieve sustainable development, formally issued the ISO 14001 environmental management system standard in 1996. The standard was revised twice in the process of application, and was updated to the 2004 and 2015 versions respectively. The latest version up to now is the 2015 version of ISO 14001 standard.
The basic idea of the standard is to guide the organization to establish a self-restraint mechanism for environmental management according to the PDCA model. From the top leader to each employee, they should handle the relationship between their own development and environmental protection with a proactive and conscious spirit, effectively implement pollution prevention, constantly improve environmental performance, and finally achieve the benign development of the organization. It requires the organization to achieve the goal of supporting environmental protection, pollution prevention and continuous improvement by establishing an environmental management system; The compliance of its environmental management system and environmental management level can be proved to the outside world by obtaining the certification from a third-party certification authority. This standard is applicable to any organization, including enterprises, institutions and relevant government units.
二、 Standard features
1. Voluntary principle;
2. It is widely applicable to various fields of organizational environmental management;
3. The organization is required not only to manage the environmental factors it can control, but also to exert influence on the environmental factor management of its interested parties;
4. Emphasize compliance with laws and regulations;
5. Emphasize pollution prevention and continuous improvement;
6. Emphasize exerting influence on interested parties;
7. No specific environmental performance indicators are specified, but compliance with laws and regulations, implementation of pollution prevention and continuous improvement are the basic requirements for the organization to establish and operate the environmental management system;
8. The establishment of the environmental management system must be combined with the existing management system elements of the organization.
三、 Implementation significance
1. Improve the environmental behavior of the organization to avoid legal risks and environmental risks;
2. Provide the organization with a scientific management mechanism for pollution prevention and sustainable development, and improve the level of environmental management;
3. Promote energy conservation and cost reduction of enterprises;
4. Improve the market competitiveness of enterprises;
5. Improve enterprises' awareness of independent compliance with the law, and promote the implementation of China's environmental laws, regulations and management systems;
6. Improve the management level of the enterprise and the environmental awareness of all employees.
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