ISO 14001 Certification

Environmental Management System (EMS) is a part of the intact management system, aiming at working out and implementing its environmental policies, and managing environmental factors, including organizations, planned activities, responsibilities, practice, procedures, process and resources that are necessary for formulation, implementation, realization, review and preservation of environmental policies. ISO14001: 1996 Environmental Management System--Specifications and Use Guide, issued in 1996 by ISO, is the international standard applicable to certification and the pivotal of ISO14000 Standards, requiring that organizations should achieve the goals of supporting the environmental protection, pollution prevention and continuous improvement by establishing environmental management system, and should demonstrate the conformity and environmental management level of its environmental management system by obtaining certification from a third party certification body. ISO14001 environmental management system has received positive response from various enterprises since it‘s issued because it has brought many benefits, such as lowering energy consumption, enhancing the competitiveness, winning customers, and getting trust from the government and the public, etc. As a result, it is deemed as the "Green Passport" to international market. Meanwhile, ISO14001 has aroused much attention of governments and the public in different countries owing to the fact that its promotion and popularization can coordinate the relation between economic development and environmental protection, and can help to improve people‘s awareness of environmental protection, promote conservation and accelerate the process of technical development. In order to have a clearer idea of the requirements of ISO14004 standards, ISO has revised the standards and issued the new version of ISO14001: 2004 Environmental Management System --Requirement and Use Guide.
 
ISO14001 Standards emerged from the background of the serious environmental problems that human society face contemporarily, including greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, destruction of biological diversity, ecological deterioration, ocean pollution, etc. It is the crystallization of environmental management experience from industrially developed countries. The basic philosophies of ISO14001 Standards are to lead the organizations to set up self-restricting mechanism of environmental management according to PDCA established model, to properly deal with the relation between self development and environmental protection, to continuously improve environmental performance, and to efficiently prevent pollution in the spirit of initiative and self awareness from the highest leadership to every staff, thus the healthy development of organization will be realized in the end. Besides, the standards are applicable to any type and scale of organizations, and also suitable for geographical, cultural and social environment.
 
GB/T24001-2004 Standards, which was issued on October 4, 2005, equally adopts ISO14001: 2004 Standards.