An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a formal system in which we set ourselves targets for improving our environmental performance and monitoring our progress. We aim to achieve these improvements through changes in how we operate. This includes technical and procedural changes as well as training staff and students.
The ISO14000 Series represents the core set of standards used by organizations for designing and implementing an effective EMS (i.e. one which achieves real environmental improvement).
The major objective of the ISO 14000 series is to promote more effective and efficient environmental management and to provide useful and usable tools - ones that are cost effective, system-based, and flexible and reflect the best organisational practices available for gathering, interpreting and communicating environmentally relevant information. The core of the system is continual improvement through the, plan, do, check, act cycle.
The concept of an environmental management system, evolved in the early 1990s 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)
The major objective of the ISO 14000 series is to promote more effective and efficient environmental management and to provide useful and usable tools - ones that are cost effective, system-based, and flexible and reflect the best organisational practices available for gathering, interpreting and communicating environmentally relevant information. The core of the system is continual improvement through the, plan, do, check, act cycle.
The concept of an environmental management system, evolved in the early 1990s 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)
