Like ISO 9000 before ISO 4000 registration will be increasingly in demand by your company's customers. This article looks at the process and the benefits of registration.
The ISO 14000 series of standards is structured much like the ISO 9000 series, with its starting point in the environmental policy. It has all the same marketing benefits as well, particularly for companies who are attempting to develop markets internationally. Environmental performance, like cost competitiveness, and product quality are critical to corporations. Environmental issues play a significant role in business decisions from plant expansion to product design. Companies who have received ISO 9000 registration have boasted reductions in operating costs, reductions in customer complaints, and an increased demand for their products and services.
Based on the success of ISO 9000, the International Organization for Standardization has developed a parallel series of standards for environmental management, known as the ISO 14000 series. The goal of ISO 14000 is to protect human health and the natural environment through the application of systematic management principles to environmental issues by business, industry, service organizations, and government agencies. ISO 14000 defines the environment as "surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their inter-relation". The ISO 14000 series contains five principal …
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