ISO 14001 Step by Step: A comprehensive guide to implementing ISO 14001 environmental management standards

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· Packt Publishing Ltd
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110
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About this ebook

This step-by-step guide helps you implement ISO 14001 environmental standards with actionable insights, practical procedures, and templates, ensuring compliance and promoting sustainability.Key Features
  • Detailed guidance on ISO 14001 standard implementation.
  • Sample procedures for common EMS tasks and challenges.
  • Step-by-step instructions to support certification and compliance.
Book DescriptionThis book offers a thorough walk-through of the ISO 14001 standard, providing practical guidance on meeting its requirements. It includes clear explanations, examples, and sample procedures to help readers understand and apply environmental management principles. By following this guide, businesses can develop effective environmental policies, measure and monitor environmental performance, and continuously improve their management systems to align with sustainability goals. The book covers everything from emergency preparedness to internal audits and management reviews. It also provides tools such as sample procedures for identifying environmental aspects, ensuring regulatory compliance, and controlling documented information. Each chapter is designed to help organizations not only achieve ISO 14001 certification but also foster a long-term commitment to sustainable environmental practices.What you will learn
  • Understand the PDCA framework for continuous improvement.
  • Identify environmental aspects and their impacts.
  • Learn to evaluate regulatory requirements and compliance.
  • Implement operational controls and communication strategies.
  • Design an effective internal audit process.
  • Develop competencies for environmental awareness.
Who this book is for

Ideal for environmental managers, quality assurance professionals, and businesses aiming to achieve ISO 14001 certification. Readers should have a basic understanding of environmental management systems (EMS) or ISO standards before diving into this guide. The book provides practical insights that enhance knowledge of ISO 14001 requirements and their applications.

About the author

IT Governance Publishing (ITGP) is the world's only specialist IT governance publisher. We produce books, toolkits and training aids on a wide range of topics including information security, IT governance, information risk, compliance, cyber security, IT service management, project management and management system standards.

Naeem Sadiq holds a BSc in aerospace and a master's in manufacturing engineering. He is a certified lead auditor and lead trainer for the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards. He is also an ASQ-certified manager and quality system auditor. Naeem's work experience in engineering and management includes working as an independent consultant, auditor and trainer for the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards. He has presented a number of papers in national conferences on management system standards, and provided consultancy, training and auditing support to more than 100 organisations. As a freelance writer, he is a regular contributor to a national newspaper on environmental and social issues. He is also the author of OHSAS 18001 Step by Step – A Practical Guide.

Asif Hayat Khan holds a BSc in industrial engineering. He is a trained lead auditor and trainer for the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards. He is also an ASQ-certified quality manager, HACCP auditor and a DuPont certified trainer on behavioural safety. As a consultant, auditor, trainer and manager, he has experience of establishing and implementing the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards in diverse industrial sectors.

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