ISO 14000 Making the Transition
from Thinking Quality... to Building an Environmental Management System
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What is the total life cycle cost of
a newly developed product? |
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How do a manufacturer‘s production
processes truly impact the environment? |
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In what ways is an ISO 14000 system
differentiated from that of ISO 9001? |
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How can a company protect the environment
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These are some of the questions addressed
during development of the ISO 14000 international standard for environmental management
systems (EMS). Global acceptance of the ISO 9000 series of quality management systems
standards (QMS) in the 1990‘s has set the stage for a similar explosion within the
environmental community. This document will attempt to explain and simplify EMS
for businesses in a global context. ISO 14000 is a companion to the ISO 9000 series
of quality standards, but to state that ISO 14000 is the environmental equivalent
of ISO 9000 would be both false and misleading.
In adopting ISO 14000, the national bodies comprising the ISO (International Organization
for Standardization) went a step beyond the ISO 9000 effort. Instead of simply adapting
quality systems, ISO 14001 exists as a single, universally applicable organizational
standard for environmental management.
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