Environmental science

To be ISO 14001:2015 certified an organization has to comply with all the requirements of the standard. So, your company must have a master-project dedicated to accomplishing conformity with ISO 14001:2015.

While implementing the environmental management system your company will determine and evaluate:

• Risks and opportunities
• Environmental aspects and impacts
• Conformity obligations and status of compliance

From these sources, other projects can emerge, in order to improve, in a continual improvement effort, or to eliminate lack of compliance with conformity obligations. For example, currently, in one of my ISO 14001 implementation projects we have these improvement projects:

• Improving compliance with air emissions legislation
• Improving compliance with fluorinated greenhouse gases legislation
• Reducing unitary solvent consumption
• Improving the rate of solid wastes not sent for final disposal

You can find more information below:

• How to achieve continual improvement of your EMS according to ISO 14001:2015 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2016/02/22/how-to-achieve-continual-improvement-of-your-ems-according-to-iso-140012015/
• Enroll for free in this course – ISO 14001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-internal-auditor-course/
• Book – The ISO 14001:2015 Companion - https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/