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Understanding the Organizational Context for the ISO 14001 Certification

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 As with any ISO certification journey, the ISO 14001 certification for Environmental Management System (EMS) requires an organization to have clear understanding of their context. This simply means knowing where to start from and what you want to get out of the ISO 14001 standard in your organization. This makes defining of the ‘organizational context’ very crucial if you want to achieve the ISO standard for your EMS. Organizational context is actually defined as a thorough understanding and underlining of the external and internal issues that can directly impact your organization or its goals. Explaining it more simply, the ISO 14001 standard is meant to improve the overall environmental performance of an organization. Defining its context in your organization means finding out how ISO 14001 works to improve your environmental performance.  Although there is no prescribed method for determining the organizational context for ISO 14001 or for any other standard, here we are a...

ISO 14001 Certification: A Quick Guide to Achieve Compliance

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Organizations today are seeking to have a definite Environmental Management System (EMS) accredited with the ISO 14001 certification to prove their environmental efforts and compliance with key environmental obligations. ISO 14001 is the benchmark standard when it comes to the management of environmental impacts. Designed by the ISO (International Organization of Standardization) it lays down the ground rules and structure of the EMS, implementing which helps organizations to efficiently reduce their harmful impacts and boost sustainability. If you are reading this, it probably means you are interested in achieving the ISO 14001 certification for your business and achieving your environmental goals. This blog provides you helpful guidiance on the process of achieving the certification. It points out the key steps that you need to follow to make your EMS compliant with the requirements of ISO 14001. Step-by-Step Procedure to Achieve ISO 14001 Compliance Assessing the Gaps The p...