BS EN ISO14001:2004

Dunnella's committment to the environment

What is ISO 14000?

ISO 14000 is a series of international standards on environmental management. It provides a framework for the development of an environmental management system and the supporting audit programme.

The main thrust for its development came as a result of the Rio Summit on the Environment held in 1992.

ISO 14001, created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is a standard designed to produce globally accepted systems for environmental management. It is a voluntary program similar to ISO 9000 (a series of standards developed in the 1980s to assist in implementing a quality management system). Adherence to the ISO 14001 standard ensures that systems are in place to identify a facility’s impacts on the environment and to minimize these impacts when feasible. It measures the conformance of a facility’s EMS to specific requirements, but remains flexible enough that companies can integrate their own business goals into their EMS.

ISO 14001 describes a system that includes an environmental policy, targets and objectives, programs for implementation, monitoring and measurement, and corrective action. An organization’s environmental policy must reflect management’s commitment to compliance with applicable laws, pollution prevention, and continual improvement. The policy then forms the basis for establishing objectives and targets. Companies carry out a program to achieve those objectives and targets through operational controls, organizational structures, and accountability. The company must then measure and monitor progress, address nonconformance, and analyze and improve the management system.