Brief Introduction of Environment Management System
As the ecology environment keeps getting worse, people realized that economic development must base on the premise that it would not damage the living environment of human beings, would not inflict the curse upon everlasting generation. The voice of 'Protect environment, Strengthen environment management’ is louder and louder. In order to implement the continual development strategy, coordinate the worldwide environment management criteria, and reduce the non-tariff barriers to trade, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) compiled ISO14000 Environment Management System (EMS) criteria.
ISO14000 has set up a framework of management for enterprises to establish a comprehensive and efficient environmental management system. The latest world pollution prevention technique including environment audit, analysis of life cycle, environmental activity evaluation, etc., become the basis of ISO14000. According to the requirements of standard enterprises could discriminate and evaluate environmental elements, find key problems, establish control action and management plan, fully control the process of production design, usage of raw materials and resources, production craft, equipment operating, and production sales to achieve the purpose of reasonably using raw materials and resources, reducing waste and pollution, decreasing the consume of materials and resources, and reducing production cost to ensure the achievement of purpose of continuous development strategy. The improvement of activities about environment is very important for the development of enterprises themselves and the improvement of environmental quality of region, nation, even world.
2. To ensure that organizations could conduct their own environment policy and show coherence of their activities and policy;
5. To conduct self-evaluation and public announcement about the situations of standard implementation.
For environmental management is closely related to livings of human beings and existing of everlasting generations, ISO14000 is eager for attendance of all human beings.