Managing your business challenges with ISO 14001 Environmental Management System

ISO 14001 can help to combat rising operating costs and provide cost savings through the reduction of waste and increased efficiency. The standard requires that you identify areas of environmental impact within your organization and then put controls in place to minimize these impacts. Additionally ISO 14001 gives you the potential to reduce insurance costs, as proving that you are environmentally responsible deems you to be less of an insurance risk.

The growth of the green supply chain over the past decade has been extraordinary. A combination of both increased awareness and legislation means that minimizing your environmental impact has become an integral element in organizational decision making. ISO 14001 requires certified companies to continually improve their performance, and part of this is to influence their supply chains to do the same. For example suppliers are asked for confirmation that they meet certain environmental standards, and are also frequently being asked to themselves gain certification to ISO 14001.

Additionally ISO 14001 is increasingly becoming a pre-requisite for tendering for contracts. Opening the door to more lucrative business deals offers a huge advantage over competitors and winning larger contracts should mean larger profits.

With concern over the environment being a mainstay of today’s culture, organizations who don't pay attention to their environmental impact run the risk of ruining their reputation and losing their markets. ISO 14001 can reduce this risk of losing customers and investors through damaged reputation from poor environmental performance. Also being able to demonstrate environmental commitment to stakeholders, through this internationally recognized standard, offers your organization a competitive advantage and can increase your access to new customers and business partners.

ISO 14001 has been developed to ensure that when organizations implement the environmental management system they have considered the legislation that applies to their operations. Implementing ISO 14001 demonstrates that you have procedures in place to comply with a range of legal and regulatory requirements. This reduces the risk of environmental breaches and subsequent costs, fines or prosecution. It also helps you to keep abreast of new legislation in adequate time to address appropriate issues and ensure compliance.

Being recognized as an environmentally friendly organization demonstrates environmental commitment to new and existing customers. ISO 14001 can differentiate you from your competitors and in turn increase your access to new customers, winning their confidence, new contracts and increasing your organization’s results. Promoting environmental credentials to your existing client base will also help you retain them in an ever increasingly competitive market.

Regular assessment ensures that you continually monitor and improve environmental performance. BSI offers a range of training courses taking you from a beginner in environmental management right through to a lead auditor for your organization. Ensuring your people are adequately trained helps your organization stay gain the most from your environmental management system, furthermore involving and empowering staff helps motivate your workforce.

Our unique Excellerator Report is a powerful analytical tool, which benchmarks individual clients against industry averages taken from BSI's global client surveys. It is specific to your organization and highlights potential opportunities for improvement in your health and safety performance.

Often, because of the benefits experienced through system certification, companies want to incorporate a number of standards into their business, including ISO 9001, ISO 50001, BS OHSAS 18001 and others. While having numerous standards in place helps to create an environment of continuous improvement, ensuring the effective management of them can often prove challenging.

Our integrated management system software, Entropy, gives you transparency and control across your entire organization, regardless of how many standards you are managing.

BSI Entropy Software™ provides a powerful web-based management solution that significantly reduces the cost and effort needed to proactively manage risk, quality and sustainability activities. Composed of five core modules and a base system, Entropy Software™ allows users to add and integrate any number of disciplines into their management process and provides a complete framework for effective:

We pioneered standards more than 100 years ago and today we’re the market leader. We help over 70,000 organizations ranging from top global brands to small ambitious businesses in 150 countries to gain an edge over their competition. As one of the few organizations that understands standards from start to finish, we don’t only assess how well you’re meeting them, we create new standards from scratch and train teams globally to use them and perform better. Our knowledge can transform your organization.