What is ISO 14000?

The implementation of the standards of the ISO 14000 in a company demonstrate that the company is an environmental friendly identity and its products and services are not polluting the environment in form of noise, dust, waste, contaminants in manufacturing, etc and are also not utilizing the environmental resources excessively.

ISO 14000 comprises of a family of standards which are designed to cover Environmental Management System (EMS), Environmental Auditing (EA), Environmental Performance Evaluation (EPE), Environmental Labeling (EL), Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the product, Environmental aspects in product standards, etc.
 
There are various benefits which are delivered to the company on being certified by ISO 14000 like it helps in managing the environment of the company more user-friendly, in maintaining good public health and relationship, reducing the environmental cost, enhances the trade and thus increases the image of the company in investor mind, etc. However ISO 14000 can be implemented side-by-side in the same company or organization which is otherwise having other ISO certificates too.

For obtaining the ISO 14000 certificate, a company is supposed to check whether all the requirements of the ISO 14000 are applicable. If it applies to Environmental Management System’s rules and policies than the company has to apply for an external audit which must be accredited certification body which will than review all the company’s environmental policies. If it is satisfied than an ISO 14000 certificate is issued to the company.

These auditing bodies are also supposed to check all these procedures for maintaining quality in the company at regular interval of time. In US the certified auditing body has to be accredited by the Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB).