Overview
An effective environment management system can help your organization improve its environmental performance, meet compliance/regulatory criteria, reduce pollution, conserve resources, attract new customers and reduce risk.
ISO 14001 – Environment Management Systems specifies the requirements for an environmental management system and helps organizations manage their environmental responsibilities in a systemic manner to help meet sustainability goals.
CAN/CSA ISO 14001 is the Canadian-adopted version of the international standard and has been vetted by Canadian stakeholders and deemed appropriate for the Canadian marketplace.
Highlights From the Latest Edition:
- Features new additions to help organizations realize efficiencies, meet legal requirements and meet the needs of shareholders
- Updated to reflect the latest industry requirements and designed to be compatible with other management systems
- Features newly-added proactive initiatives to help reduce risk and better protect environmental assets through sustainable resource use and climate change mitigation
- Includes greater emphasis on lifecycle thinking to provide guidance at each stage of a product or service’s lifecycle from initial development to end-of-life
- Presents an enhanced focus on integrating environmental issues into an organization’s strategic planning process & offers guidance on improving communications with stakeholders
- Follows a similar high-level structure similar to other management systems standards such as ISO 9001 making easier for organizations to use multiple standards & provide clearer documentation for auditing purposes.
CSA Preface
This is the third edition of CAN/CSA‐ISO 14001, Environmental management systems — Requirements with guidance for use, which is an adoption without modification of the identically titled ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Standard 14001 (third edition, 2015‐09‐15). It supersedes the previous edition, published in 2004 as CAN/CSA‐ISO 14001 (adopted ISO 14001:2004).
The key changes relate to
a) increased prominence of environmental management within the organization's strategic planning processes;
b) a greater focus on leadership;
c) the addition of proactive initiatives to protect the environment from harm and degradation, such as sustainable resource use and climate change mitigation;
d) improving environmental performance;
e) lifecycle thinking when considering environmental aspects; and
f) the addition of a communications strategy.
In addition, the revised Standard follows a common structure, with the same terms and definitions as a number of other management system standards, such as CAN/CSA-ISO 9001.
This Standard has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group.
Scope
This International Standard specifies the requirements for an environmental management system that an organization can use to enhance its environmental performance. This International Standard is intended for use by an organization seeking to manage its environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability.
This International Standard helps an organization achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system, which provide value for the environment, the organization itself and interested parties. Consistent with the organization’s environmental policy, the intended outcomes of an environmental management system include:
— enhancement of environmental performance;
— fulfilment of compliance obligations;
— achievement of environmental objectives.
This International Standard is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, and applies to the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that the organization determines it can either control or influence considering a life cycle perspective. This International Standard does not state specific environmental performance criteria.
This International Standard can be used in whole or in part to systematically improve environmental management. Claims of conformity to this International Standard, however, are not acceptable unless all its requirements are incorporated into an organization’s environmental management system and fulfilled without exclusion.
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