The ISO 14001:2004 environmental management system represents standard for maintaining environmental standards in the organization. This mainly aims to help organizations identify, monitor and control the fallout of their activities in regards to environment. It provides guidelines for improving organizational performances.
Main features of this 14001:2004 standard:
- This standard is also a partner to the ISO 14004:2004 standard.
- This standard charts out, broad framework that organizations can look up to and also it aims at building efficient environmental management system.
- Compliance to the standard is a matter of concern – One of the main activity is to concentrate on the environmental impact occurring in the organization, then steps are taken to measure and improve the performance.
