ISO 14001:2015 CERTIFICATION ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CERTIFICATION

Environmental compliance is vital if your business is to be competitive today and remain so tomorrow.

ISO 14001 is the world’s best-known The Revision The revision has been written using the new environmental management system In the 2015 version of the standard, high level structure which is common to all standard, with more than 250,000 certified the International Organization for new ISO management systems standards. users in 155 countries. The standard Standardization has made a number This will allow easy integration when provides a systematic framework to help of significant changes. Eleven themes implementing more than one management organisations protect the environment were analysed, in the drafting of ISO system within your organisation. through balanced socio-economic means. 14001:2015 including: The overall aim of the standard continues • Sustainable development to be to provide a systematic framework • Environmental performance improvement to protect the environment in balance • Legal compliance with socio-economic means. The content revisions reflect an emphasis on • Strategic business management, sustainability, and structural revisions are • Conformity assessment consistent with ISO’s goal to strengthen the • National and international policy agendas standard to improve operation within the The standard will take strives to understand business and allow greater integration with an organisation’s context in order to better other ISO standards. manage environmental risks, putting more Increased attention to ISO 14001 comes as responsibility on business leaders to support more and more companies are considering environmental management systems. the “triple bottom line”, which includes not The updated standard will better help only financials, but also social and ecological FOR MORE INFORMATION small and medium sized business control concerns. By incorporating sustainability environmental effects in the supply chain, and strengthening the standard with engage stakeholders, and communicate respect to business management, the ISO HANOI +84 24 3733 7094 EMS efforts externally. As well as, shift 14001 standard helps organisations be more towards improving environmentally safe sustainable and conscious of the future of HCMC +84 28 6297 1099 outputs rather than strict focus on the the environment and their business. +84 28 7305 1088 management system itself. The mandate will still require the basic principles and existing requirements of ISO 14001:2004 ba.vietnam@intertek.com be retained and improved. intertek.com/business-assurance/ iso14001-2015

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