How to Improve Your Organisation’s Environmental Performance

Businesses continue to be the focus of anger over climate change and negative environmental impact. Implementing ISO 14001, the international standard for environmental management can help you control your environmental impact while improving your financial performance. Read Alcumus ISOQAR’s free, plain English guide to the requirements of ISO 14001 for useful hints and tips.

So what can you do? How can you play your part? How can you protect your business interests whilst also making a positive contribution? How can you prove to the world that you are doing all you can?

Perhaps the most effective answer lies in implementing an internationally recognised environmental management system to help you control your impact on the environment whilst at the same time improving your financial performance. And then, get it certified by an independent certification body.

Such a system exists, and it’s known as ISO 14001. It’s the international standard for environmental management, in the same way that ISO 9001 is the global standard for quality management.

Get The Free Guide To The Requirements of ISO 14001

Naturally, interest in the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System has sharply increased recently. The reasons are obvious:

• Reduce environmental impact - Quantify, monitor and control the ongoing environmental impact of your operations.
• Cost savings - Through better energy management, efficient use of resources such as water and reduced waste.
• Tax incentives - You may get relief if you buy energy efficient technology for your business.
• Legal compliance - Helps you comply with legislation and avoid fines, government intervention and sanctions against your business.
• Improve corporate image - Reduces reputational risk, builds credibility, enhances your brand and helps win new business.

Some organisations are hesitant about implementing an ISO 14001 certified Environmental Management System because of the apparent complexity of the ISO standard. That’s understandable.

Alcumus ISOQAR, one of the UK’s leading Certification Bodies, has responded by producing a Guide to the Requirements of ISO 14001. It’s a plain English guide to the ISO standard that takes you through clause by clause and gives simple explanations, hints and tips. The guide is free and available now.

It’s ideal if you’re thinking about implementing ISO 14001 and want to get a grasp of what’s involved or if you’re about to build your system and need straightforward interpretations of the clauses.

Alcumus ISOQAR also provides a range of engaging and inspirational ISO 14001 training courses which can help you install the system.

For more information on implementing a certified ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, contact Alcumus ISOQAR.