Jasmin NUHIC- speaker 2011 - ISO14000: Environmental Management - Ins and Outs of Implementation and Understanding

"The ISO 14000 environmental management standards exist to help organizations minimize how their operations (processes etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements, and continually improve in the above.

The concept of an environmental management system evolved in the early nineties and its origin can be traced back to 1972, when the United Nations organised a Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was launched (Corbett & Kirsch, 2001). These early initiatives led to the establishment of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) and the adoption of the Montreal Protocol and Basel Convention.

In 1992, the first Earth Summit was held in Rio-de-Janeiro (Jiang & Bansal, 2001), which served to generate a global commitment to the environment (RMIT University). In the same year, BSI Group published the world's first environmental management systems standard, BS 7750.[1] This supplied the template for the development of the ISO 14000 series in 1996, by the International Organization for Standardization, which has representation from committees all over the world (ISO) (Clements 1996, Brorson & Larsson, 1999). As of 2010, ISO 14001 is now used by at least 223 149 organizations in 159 countries and economies (wikipedia)"

Attendees will receive free document on Review of ISO14001 standard; review of ISO 9001 standard - learn similarities nd differences.

Description of the Topic:

Overview of the regulation, its benefits to organizations, elements of auditing for ISO 14001, training requirements, awareness, implementation, some of the lessons learned and most commonly asked questions.

Areas Covered in the Session

Overview of the standard

Implementation tips and suggestions

Benefits of implementation and compliance

Auditing elements related to ISO 14001

Incrasing awarenees and communications
Lessons learned

Who will Benefit

- Quality Managers
- EHS managers
- Small business owners
- CAPA investigators
- Project managers
- Operations managers
- Consultants
- Review of ISO14001 standard; review of ISO 9001 standard - learn similarities and differences