When you implement the ISO 14001 standard and create an Environmental Management System (EMS), you will see opportunities to improve profitability, reduce risks of law suits and improve your marketing position to being "green."

Progress not Perfection - when you begin implementing, consider it as a continual process for improvement.  And with all human endeavors, it is an ongoing cycle of finding problems then fixing them.
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Changes to ISO 14001 provide a much improved interface with ISO 9001:2015 as it is written in the same high level structure (HLS) as the 10 sections of ISO 9001. An example is internal auditing – content and meaning are almost identical as is section numbering.

Documented information is another good example where writers adopted the same meaning for both QMS and EMS. Key terminology shared by both standards can be found in Annex A at the back each standard:
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Green Living for Dummies states that becoming "green" means taking action now to stop using the Earth's resources faster than the Earth can replace them.
Organizations seeking to improve their environmental performance and promote a "green" image should look at ISO 14001 as a starting point.

First, let's define environment-friendly performance by an organization or being "green." A "green" company is an organization that has a plan, led by top management allocating resources to continually improve its environmental performance, measuring the improvement and publishing its improvements to assist other organizations in the community to do the same.
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What is ISO 14001? 
ASR, an ISO 14001 Registrar answers

Organizations of all kinds are increasingly concerned with controlling the impacts of their products and services on the environment. The ISO 14001 standard is primarily concerned with "environmental management". This means what the organization does to:
  1. minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities, and to
  2. achieve continual improvement of its environmental performance.
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The Wharton school of business studied the benefits associated with an ISO 14001 EMS certification and found hard evidence.

They found benefits that go beyond bottom line improvements.  From their study:

  • 96.5% indicated a contribution to improved environmental performance of their product
  • 98.3% indicated an improvement in emergency preparedness
  • 84.6 indicated a reduction in permit violations
  • 91.9% indicated a reduction of utility consumption
  • 96.7% of respondents indicated a reduction in wasteISO 14001 Certification, EMS, Environmental Management
  • 93.3% indicated an increase in the use of recycled materials
  • 90.0% indicated a reduction in environmental incidents
Read more: Risk Assessment as ISO 14001 Benefits

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