ISO 14001

There is an exact proof that many organizations are expecting more responsible approach to environment from their suppliers and this new business ethics in many cases has led to the request for suppliers to establish the environmental management system (EMS) like the part of their business activity.

Environmental management means systematic approach to environmental protection in all aspects of business activities throughout which the organizations integrate an environmental maintenance to the business policy and also to the every day activity.

The approach consists in establishment, implementation and maintaining of the correctly structured environmental management system, which takes a part in the whole management system and it is connected with all parts of organization environmental behavior.

Implementation and certification of environmental management system brings advantages in many ways:

Economic advantages:

• Energy saving

• Waste minimization (decreasing of costs for waste disposal)

• Minimization of environmental fees and penalties for environmental pollution

Advantages for organization management:

• A tool for obtaining of information needed for planning and establishing of objectives

• Risk minimizing of environmental accidents

• Increasing of organization ethics

Public relations:

• Improvement of an organization image

• Good public relations and good relations with a local government

In the international dimension there is a key standard for EMS implementation and its certification ISO 14001 – Environmental management systems. Specification with guideline for implementation

The standard provides specification of EMS including key requirements, which the organisation shall fulfill to obtain a certificate from certification body. A certified organisation is qualified to use a certification mark for certified scopes.