What is ISO 14000?

ISO 14000 is not really a single environmental management system (EMS) standard. Rather, it is a family of standards. The main standard - ISO 14001 requires an organization to formulate a policy and establish objectives that consider all of the organization‘s significant environmental aspects and impacts.

The EMS must take legislative requirements into account and apply the policy to all environmental aspects the organization over which it can be expected to exercise a reasonable level of control. It also extends to environmental aspects on which the organization can be expected to have an influence, such as suppliers and sub-contractors.

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