Guide to the ISO 14001 Certification for Small Businesses
Every business should be proactive in today’s market in that they should concern themselves with protecting and controlling their environmental impacts, protecting resources, human beings, flora, and fauna around them. Large organizations are working towards this by implementing meaningful strategies which include achieving the ISO 14001 certification and initiating changes to processes, but small businesses could find this entire process to be cumbersome and difficult. Smaller enterprises could struggle to implement a strategy or strategies for environmental management because of the lack of resources, time and ultimately may not have adequate staff to dedicate to an implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS). Also, it could be cost-prohibitive and time-consuming for them to implement the EMS with limited staff because this cause major disruption in their key business operations. While environmental management is priority for every organization regardless of its size,...