ISO 14001/EMAS - Enhanced image and improved market position.

Increasing environmental awareness in the general population means that the environment is also becoming more and more important for companies of all kinds and in all sectors: companies who can demonstrate that they act in a way which is kind to the environment improve their image and strengthen their market position. In fact, companies profit in many different ways from the implementation of an Environment Management System:

• The ability to compete is strengthened; the positive effect on those outside the company and additional publicity help to open up new markets.
• An environmental management system offers savings potentials - by lowering disposal costs and insurance premiums.
• The risk of being made liable for damages is minimised, there is more security with regard to the law and before the courts. Duties of mandatory documentation are fulfilled and liability risks excluded.
• Work sequences are improved: companies who have developed a management system can make use of the resulting structures for the area of occupational safety and health. Performance of joint certification leads to cost savings and increases the efficiency of the systems interacting with one another.

Environmental Management System Developments.

An EMS is a management tool that allows businesses to monitor and control their use of resources and the impact of their products and services on the environment. Many companies find that an effective EMS improves efficiency and can reduce the costs of waste, raw materials, process energy and heating. ISO 14001 is the international standard for the establishment and operation of an EMS and many larger companies are now insisting that their entire supply chain is accredited to this standard. Linden was part of the European Union pilot scheme for the testing of EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) which is the voluntary scheme showing ongoing commitment beyond that of ISO 14001.

What will I learn?

By the end of the course you will understand and apply as appropriate:

• The Origins and Aims of Environmental Management
• The philosophy of ISO 14001, prevention of pollution and environmental improvement
• Applicable Environmental Legislation
• Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001)
• Environmental Aspects and Impacts
• The benefits of ISO 14001 and how these must be spelled out to junior staff – especially in marketing and to help the global environmental situation
• The benefits of Independent Certification/Recognition of an Environmental Management System
• Required documentation

Components of an Environment Management System (EMS)

To develop an EMS, an organisation has to assess its environmental impacts, set targets to reduce these impacts, and plan how to achieve the targets.
The most important component of an EMS is organisational commitment. For an effective EMS to be developed and implemented, you need commitment from the very top of the organisation, as well as all staff. Following are more examples of components that should be considered when developing an EMS.

• Environmental Impact Identification: identification and documentation of the actual and potential environmental impacts of an organisation's operations need to be undertaken. This can be achieved through undertaking an environmental audit.
• Objectives and Targets: an environmental audit forms the basis of determining an organisation's environmental objectives and targets. An organisation can find benefits in adopting more stringent longer term objectives to encourage it to improve its performance. To continually improve, targets should be regularly reviewed.
• Consultation: staff and community consultation should be undertaken before, during and after establishment of an EMS. This is necessary to ensure that all staff are involved in, and committed to the EMS. It can also help to improve public perception of the company, one of the benefits of implementing an EMS.
• Operational and Emergency Procedures: all procedures should be reviewed to ensure they are compatible with the organisation's environmental objectives and targets. Any changes should be included with the documentation.
• Documentation: all objectives, targets, policies, responsibilities and procedures should be documented along with information on environmental performance. Documentation is useful for verifying environmental performance to staff, regulators and the community.
• Continual Improvement: an important component is continual improvement. An EMS comes into its best use when used to review progress towards the targets and objectives set by a company to protect the environment. The procedures set in place to meet these objectives should be constantly examined to see if they can be improved or if more effective systems can be introduced.

Full range of 14000 Standards

• Environmental Management Systems: 14001, 14002, 14004
• Environmental Auditing: 14010, 10411, 14012
• Evaluation of Environmental Performance: 14031
• Environmental Labeling: 14020, 14021, 14022, 14023, 14024, 14025
• Life Cycle Assessment: 14040, 14041,14042, 14043

What is it about?

Companies today are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that they do not pursue profit at the expense of the environment. This informative one-day training course provides an overview of environmental management systems for anyone who wants to understand how environmental policies and best practice can enhance their business. It heightens awareness of the regulatory initiatives at national, European and international levels.

What is the difference between registration, certification and accreditation?

The assessment of an environmental management system against the requirements of the ISO14001 standards and the subsequent issuing of a certificate to confirm that it is in conformance with the standard’s requirements is variously referred to in different countries as certification or registration.
Accreditation is another term which, in the ISO14001 context, is also sometimes used – wrongly – as a synonym for "certification" or "registration". "Accreditation" is the procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that a body or person is competent to carry out specific tasks. In the ISO14000 context, it relates to the work of national accreditation bodies which have been set up in a number of countries to provide some measure of control over the activities of quality system or environmental management system certification bodies. An accreditation body will accredit – or, in simpler language, approve – a certification body as competent to carry out ISO 14000 certification of environmental management systems, in specified business sectors.

What are the principles behind the ISO 14001 Standards?

The ISO14000 standards are being developed with the following key principles in mind:

• They must result in better environmental management
• They must be applicable in all nations
• They should promote the broad interests of the public and the users of the standards
• They should be cost effective, non-prescriptive, and flexible, to allow them to meet the differing needs of organizations of any size worldwide
• As part of their flexibility, they should be suitable for internal or external verification
• They should be scientifically based
• And above all, they should be practical, useful and useable

Basic Environmental Philosophy

Aims Management Consultants basic environmental philosophy is based upon the following precepts:

• We recognize that to secure the environment where all ecosystems on Earth can develop in harmony with nature is the biggest challenge mankind faces.
• Taking into consideration Earth's limited resources and using them in an efficient way, aims management consultants to pursue its business with no cost to the environment.
• It is our aim to establish a system where our employees can recognize environmental issues and measures needed to compensate for them.
• We will educate our staff to deepen their awareness and understanding of environmental issues

Environmental management entails

• Working with our customers to develop environmentally acceptable products and services
• Sustaining effective product recycling and reclamation programs.
• Enlisting the support of our suppliers with regard to sound environmental management
• Using resources in an environmentally responsible manner
• Addressing environmental response activities consistent with government requirements
• Striving for continual improvement in our environmental performance.
• Conducting business in a manner that safeguards the interests of Unisys stakeholders
• Fostering environmental responsibility among our employees.
• Reducing or eliminating the use of hazardous substances whenever technically feasible

What are the main reason for the registration:

• Access to new markets
• Internal operational efficiency
• Organizations has recognized that the registering to these standards lead in lower costs and improved performance.
• Lower production costs
• Greater operating margins
• Improved reliability
• Better processes
• Defect rate decrease
• Increased sales
• Improved quality
• The Same errors stop occurring
• Management system improves Quality data

Environmental Legislation for Indian industry.

Growth, Equity and Sustainability are three essential parameters of a development process and balancing the stakes while designing and implementing such a process is a Herculean task. Industry and business are becoming increasingly concerned about achieving and demonstrating sound environmental performance because of the growing compulsions from stringent legislation and mounting public pressure.
One of the fundamental features of India's ancient philosophy has always been the respect for the Environment.
Ever since the Stockholm Conference on Human Environment in June, 1972, there has been a great proliferation of legislation and regulations in India to protect the environment in response to the challenge of Sustainable Development India is the first country to incorporate protection of the environment.

How does the ISO14001 Certification process work?

Application: The client submits duly filled application forms and other required documents along with appropriate fee and Environmental management system documentation. Documentation Review: STQC reviews the submitted documentation, compares it to the applicable ISO 14001 standard, and prepares a report detailing its findings.
Pre-assessment Visit: Following documentation review, a pre-assessment visit is performed visit provides the Lead Auditor with a brief overview of the clients Environmental Management System and determines if the client is ready for the audit visit. The findings of the pre-assessment visit is documented in a report.

What do the standards apply to ?

This is primarily for the company to decide, and to clearly document the extent of coverage. However, limiting coverage to a small [inconsequential] area may provide competitors with an ideal marketing opportunity!. There does not appear to be a limit to the coverage of the environmental management system in that it can include the organization's products, services, activities, operations, facilities, transportation, etc.From a slightly different viewpoint, all of the elements in the previous sentence should be considered for environmental impact resulting from current practices, past practices and future practices, . and should further be reviewed for their impact under normal, abnormal and emergency conditions.

Definitions about 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems

• Being under responsibility and policy: Organization should determine environment policy and give adhesion commitment to environment management system.
• Plan: Organization should determine sizes of action, product and services and select important things. Aims and objectives should be determined to realize commitment and to be realized actions should be programmed to reach aim and objectives.
• Applying and operation: Organization should develop support mechanism and abilities to reach the aim and objectives and to be efficiency applied.
• Control and corrective action: Organization should measure environmental performance and successful degree of this performance and evaluate monitoring.
• Review and developing: Organization should review EMS to develop general environment performance and to develop general successful degree in this performance and develop continuously

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A new view on environmental issues conveys new opportunities.

To work for an improved environment is one of today's major challenges. The realisation that our present attitude towards nature is not sustainable in the long run is changing the values in society. Consciousness about the environment is increasing and the view on how companies are affecting the environment is changing.As a result of the new view on environmental issues, the government is no longer the only part making demands on companies. Ever-increasing pressure groups in the environmental area are customers and consumers, but other parties, such as credit facilities, insurance companies and employees, are also showing an interest in the environmental conscience of companies.

ISO 14001 Certification and Regulations of using logo

• We congratulate that you succeed certification . You would like to use WCS TRK logo in crested papers sale and market materials.
• One copy of logos which you can use with certificate, will be sent you. When you use these logos you should not forget to adjust regulations. These regulations are like the following:
• When you use in papers and documents , WCS logo, certificate number and standard which was certificated should be determined.
• Logo should not be changed and should be used in papers only address which you have certificate and documents. Documents which you use logo does not mean in your actions other addresses that are certificated. You only can use logo for address and subjects which you got certificate .
• WCS TRK, TURKAK or UKAS logos can not be used as product certificate. Their logos can not be used to confirm products. Therefore they can not be written on the product packing.
• WCS TRK logo can not be used in the vehicles with TURKAK logo.
• Whether your adjusted at the above regulations will be determined with routine surveillance audit.
• When your certificate is canceled or make decision that you do not want to use certificate, you should give up to use logo

What are the features of the activity

Features of the activity

• Each sub-activity set environmental goals for its own business field Each sub-activity set and implemented environmental aims and goals pertaining to its own business field. (For the goals of each activity, see the following section.)
• Implement e-learning for all employees By carrying out environmental training for all employees including management using an e-learning tool developed by Fujitsu itself, the company reduced the burden on the environment in terms of CO2 emission by about 98% compared with conventional group training.
• Set as an environmental goal an activity for social contribution in branch offices and system laboratories nationwide In addition to existing activities carried out in plants, Fujitsu set and implemented an activity aimed at social contribution in offices of the Sales Division and Software & Services Division nationwide.

Implementation and Operation

The key to implementation is communication and training of staff. During the implementation phase you should provide resources for personnel and clearly define the roles within your organization. At this stage, you will document and control your management system, control operations that may have an environmental impact.

What is Eco Management and audit scheme?

The EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a management tool for companies and other organisations to evaluate, report and improve their environmental performance. The scheme has been available for participation by companies since 1995 and was originally restricted to companies in industrial sectors.
Since 2001 EMAS has been open to all economic sectors including public and private services.
In July 2008 the European Commission proposed to revise EMAS to increase the participation of companies and reduce the administrative burden and costs, particularly for small and medium sized enterprises .

Why seek certification to ISO 14001?

Once you have an environmental management system in place, you may choose to have it externally audited. Following a successful audit by an accredited certification body, you will be issued with a certificate of registration to ISO 14001. This demonstrates that your organisation is committed to environmental issues and is prepared to work towards improving the environment. It also gives a competitive edge to the company's marketing and enhances its image in the eyes of customers, employees and shareholders.
Once you have an environmental management system in place, you may choose to have it externally audited. Following a successful audit by an accredited certification body, you will be issued with a certificate of registration to ISO 14001 . This demonstrates that your organisation is committed to environmental issues and is prepared to work towards improving the environment. It also give a competitive edge to the company’s marketing and enhances its image in the eyes of customers. Employees and shareholder.

New ISO 14001 version

ISO 14001:1996 has been revised. The new version, ISO 14001:2004, was published on November 15, 2004. A parallel revision process has been followed for ISO 14004, a document providing general guidelines on environmental management systems .The new version contains many improvements and changes, and the main aim of the revision has been to:

• improve compatibility with ISO 9001, and
• clarify requirements.

The new standard does not imply any major changes in requirements. However, you ought to review your systems, as some changes to the standard may require amendments of your environmental management system to ensure conformance with ISO 14001.

Environment Auditing System

The Aims Management Consultants Group periodically receives external audits wherein a certified agency ensures that the Company’s environmental management system is being appropriately implemented and maintained. At the same time, the Company conducts internal environmental and ISO 9001 (quality management system) audits of the individual operating units of each division. As of March 2008, Aims Management Consultants had a total of 478 registered internal environmental auditors in place. The Company provides these internal auditors with regular training programs presented by external and internal lecturers as well as opportunities to exchange information with each other. Through stringent audits achieved by these initiatives, we are working to continuously improve our environmental management system. Internal audit results are analyzed and then reported on in biannual management reviews, and necessary improvement measures are implemented.

Our Environment this means that:

• We have satisfied independent external assessors that we are keeping the law in every area that applies to us with regard to protecting the environment,
• We have procedures in place to prevent pollution incidents happening
• We have shown top level management commitment to keeping the first two points
• We will continue to be assessed every six months in order to keep this standard.
  

Reaching for a sustainable future.

Is an international standard on environmental management system that assists organization to identify, prioritize and manage their environmental risks as part of their normal business practices. The standard requires organizations to commit to prevention of pollution and continual improvement as part of the normal management cycle.
Certification to ISO 14001 assures full compliance with your own environmental policy, both internally and externally, and demonstrates your commitment to providing all the resources that are required to control and reduce the environmental effects of your organization’s products, services and activities.

What’s on offer.

• Integrating ISO 14001 into existing management systems
• Refresher training to promote continual improvement and to ensure that people performing tasks for the company are competent
• Training new EMS team members
• Specific environmental legislation training
• Energy management programmes
• Waste minimisation programmes
• Reviewing and setting new objectives and targets
• EMS auditing and auditor training
• Legal compliance audits
• Legislation updates
• Convergence to new additions of the Standard as they arise

What types of companies implement ISO 14001?

ISO 14001 is applicable to organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to multinational companies. However, there are four main reasons why organizations are motivated to implement ISO 14001. These are:

• cost savings from efficiency gains
• supply chain pressure
• competitive trade advantages, and
• improved environmental performance.
  

Our Quality and Environmental Policy:

• We are committed to consistently meeting or exceeding our customers expectations .We accomplish this by adhering to this quality and environments policy:
• Commit to review all operations to identify areas where establishing quality and environmental objectives will have the most significant impact.
• Comply with the requirements of the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards and applicable legal regulations
• Conduct our operations in such a way that prevents pollution, utilizes energy and resources effectively and reduces waste generation.
• Continually Improve the effectiveness of the Quality and Environmental Management Systems.

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) continual improvement services.

The key requirements of ISO 14001:2004 are legal compliance, to continually improve operations and prevent pollution. Once companies have gained ISO 14001, external assessors will visit them every six months for surveillance visits. Consequently, businesses need to keep improving and progressing with their EMS to maintain compliance with the Standard.
Business Sustain can help you achieve this. We provide environmental management advice and support, refresher training to existing staff and training to new staff. We also review and update objectives, targets and management programmes making sure that you have the knowledge and tools to meet the requirements of the Standard.

Who has formulated ISO 14001:2004 standard?

ISO has published ISO 14000 family of standards including ISO 14001:2004 standard. The Technical Committee of ISO i.e. ISO/TC 207 Environmental Management Systems is responsible for formulation of these standards.

When does the presumption of compliance apply?

The presumption of compliance does not apply immediately a harmonised standard is published by the standards organisation. Its title must first be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities with reference to its application under one or other of the Articles of the R&TTE Directive setting out the essential requirements. The publication will also include information about the cessation of the presumption of compliance of any relevant earlier standards.

What are the Course Topics.

• Audit roles, responsibilities and principles
• Audit planning
• Audit methods and techniques
• Conducting opening and closing meetings
• Identifying nonconformities and positive findings
• Reporting audit findings
• Following up the audit

Who Should Attend?

• Lead Auditors
• Organizations undergoing a third-party audit
• Individuals pursuing RAB EMS auditor certification
• Environmental Management System Management Reps
• EMS Audit Program Manager
  

Who is the course aimed at?

The course has been planned to consider the needs of those personnel within an organisation that are responsible for the implementation of an environmental management system.The course is of 2 days duration, from 9am - 5pm. All materials required by the delegates will be supplied and refreshments will be made available for morning and afternoons breaks and lunch.

What are the Key Elements of ISO 14001:2004.

Key Elements of ISO 14001:2004
The ISO 14001 standard is based on the same plan-do-check-act (PDCA) structure as ISO 19001. The main elements of the standard are:

• Environmental Policy
• Planning
• Implementation & Operation
• Checking and Corrective Action
• Management Review
  

Constructing and registering an Environment Management System to the ISO 14001 standard will benefit you by:

• Providing your company with assurance that you meet, and will continue to meet, your environmental management system commitments and corporate policy requirements.
• Providing potentially fewer surveillance visits from regulatory agencies.
• Showing your business partners, regulatory agencies, and community that you are environmentally responsible.
• Increasing competitiveness.
• Increasing profits through potential process improvements and energy conservation.
• Reducing your environmental liability.
• Reducing costs as a result of potentially lower insurance rates.
• Verifying your systems for recognizing and complying with environmental laws and regulations.
• Improving relationships with regulators - organizations that implement an ISO 14001 EMS often report improved relations with government regulatory agencies, find that regulators are quicker to provide technical support, and find that the regulators are much more supportive in general.

What comes after ISO 14001 Certification?

After you achieve your goal of ISO 14001 certification, you now have to maintain the quality management system and to continue to work to develop operational excellence. There are two steps to maintaining your certification.
1. ISO 14001 Certification Surveillance
Surveillance assessments are the heart of the post-certification process for ISO 14001 certification. The ISO 14001 surveillance audits assure ongoing conformity, determine whether your management system remains effective, and encourage continual improvement, thereby helping enhance your profitability. The last ISO 14001 surveillance audit is always a recertification audit to ensure accreditation conformity and full assessment of the requirements.
As your ISO 14000 registrar, Aims Management Consultants offers two surveillance scheduling options for maintaining your ISO 14001 certification:
1. Semi-annual ISO 14001 surveillances are performed every six months. Certain core elements are reviewed during each visit and management system processes are selected accordingly throughout the course of certification. The advantage of this option is that each audit is approximately half the duration of an annual surveillance and the system is reviewed routinely. The majority of SQA ISO 14001 certification clients select this schedule option.
2. Annual ISO 14001 surveillances are conducted once a year. Again, core elements are reviewed each year and management system processes are selected accordingly throughout the course of ISO 14001 certification. This alternative involves fewer, but longer visits.

The history of the ISO 14001 Standard?

The ISO 14001 series emerged primarily as a result of the Uruguay round of the GATT negotiations and the Rio Summit on the Environment held in 1992. While GATT concentrates on the need to reduce non-tariff barriers to trade, the Rio Summit generated a commitment to protection of the environment across the world.
After the rapid acceptance of ISO 9000, and the increase of environmental standards around the world, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) assessed the need for international environmental management standards. They formed the Strategic Advisory Group on the Environment (SAGE) in 1991, to consider whether such standards could serve to:

• Promote a common approach to environmental management similar to quality management;
• Enhance organizations' ability to attain and measure improvements in environmental performance; and
• Facilitate trade and remove trade barriers.

In 1992, SAGE's recommendations created a new committee, TC 207, for international environmental management standards. This committee and its sub-committees included representatives from industry, standards organizations, government and environmental organizations from many countries. What developed was a series of ISO14000 standards designed to cover:

• environmental management systems
• environmental auditing
• environmental performance evaluation
• environmental labelling
• life-cycle assessment
• environmental aspects in product standards

What value does Aims Manangment Consultants provide in the ISO 14001 certification process?

Aims Management Consultants has a team of experienced ISO 14000 auditors who are qualified to evaluate companies pursuing certification under the ISO 14001 standard.

Certification by Aims Management Consultants to ISO 14001 provides:

• Qualification of your company for consideration as a supplier to automotive original equipment manufacturers.
• Public recognition that your organization is proactive in caring for the environment.
• External, independent validation that your EMS conforms with the requirements of ISO 14001.
• Independent feedback to foster continual improvement.

ISO 14001 Environmental Policy.

Maxim is committed to protecting the environment through excellence in environmental performance and continual improvements in our operations, products, and services.It is Maxim's policy to:

• Prevent or reduce pollution to air, land, and water through programs that reduce environmental impacts and conserve natural resources
• Understand and commit to comply with legal and other requirements
• Review environmental objectives and targets and set guidelines for reduction of environmental impacts
• Evaluate the effectiveness of and continually improve our environmental management systems (EMS), and educate those working for or on behalf of the company where it is applicable to meet legal and other requirements.

ISO 14001 Environmental Commitment.

Maxim is committed to continuous environmental improvement consisting of the following

• Reviewing and understanding current environmental legislation
• Implementing an effective EMS that addresses applicable customer and regulatory concerns
• Identifying the environmental impacts associated with company activities
• Setting targets and objectives to reduce or eliminate adverse impacts on the environment (e.g., source reduction and waste minimization practices)
• Training employees

ISO 14001:2004 Management Review

The International Organization for Standardization released the 2004 version of ISO 14001 on Nov. 15, 2004. Companies currently registered to the ISO 14001:1996 standard will need to upgrade their systems and have them re-certified to the 2004 standard by May 15, 2006. Beyond this date, the International Accreditation Forum will only recognize certificates for 2004 version. The ISO and IAF have jointly developed a transition policy document with technical details of the transition requirement, which was published by IAF on Dec. 20, 2004.
Outputs from the review include:

• Management review and decisions about the EMS appropriateness (suitability), sufficiency (adequacy) and success (effectiveness)
• Changes to resources that include: financial, human and physical
• Decisions and Actions associated with:
  1. Environmental policy
  2. Objectives
  3. Targets
  4. Any element of the EMS as deemed from management review

ISO 14001:2004 over view

Of all the standards within the ISO 14000 series, ISO 14001 is the standard that specifies the requirements for an organization's EMS. The Environmental Management System (EMS) document is the central document controlling the interaction of the core elements in the organization, and provides a third-party auditor with the key information necessary to understand the environmental management systems in place. It is a "tool" that enables an organization of any size or type to control the impact of its activities, products or services on the environment. As in the case of ISO 9001, the key to a successful ISO 14001 EMS is having documented procedures that are implemented and maintained so that they describe environmental goals and their place in all other company-wide activities. ISO 14001 standards require sites to document and make an Environmental Policy available to the public. In addition, procedures should be established for a continuous review of the environmental aspects and the impacts of products, activities, and services. Based on these environmental aspects and impacts, then goals and objectives are established that are consistent with the environmental policy,. As with a QMS, Internal Audits of the EMS should be conducted routinely to ensure that non-conformances in the system are identified and addressed.

The strong points recognized by the inspectors included:

• the development of a general culture of prevention integrated with the organization and and preparation of trained personnel and suitable methods for the management of possible emergencies;
• the definition of precise improvement targets such as: the reduction of waste from packaging, thanks to the construction of "special revolving containers", a preventive check on the systems with gradual replacement of substances that are harmful to the ozone layer, a reduction in the consumption of methane and electrical energy for the production units in agreement with Fenice (a company specialized in the management of water and waste treatment systems);
• the organization of a transverse training programme for all workers and hierarchical levels, documented and structured for all production activities, starting from entering the workplace and from the integrated implementation of TPM - 5S methods
• the involvement of employees from sub-contractors in the plant rules system from where the spread of standardized, consistent behaviour ensures, measured in all production activities subject to audit.

The Legal Requirements of ISO 14001:2004.

The organisation shall establish, implement and maintain a procedure(s)
a) To identify and have access to the applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which the organization subscribes related to its environmental aspects, and
b) To determine how these requirements apply to its environmental aspects.
The organization shall ensure that these applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which the organization subscribes are taken into account in establishing, implementing and maintaining its environmental management system”.

Introduction to ISO 14001:2004.

ISO 14001 is the standard used by a registrar to determine whether an organization will be certified. Similar in structure to ISO 9001, it outlines the requirements companies must meet if they want to obtain certification (registration) of their environmental management system. ISO 14001 was first published in 1996 and was revised in 2004.