Challenges that a Business Faces for ISO 14001 Certification

1. Challenges that a Business Faces for ISO 14001 Certification

2. ISO 14001 is an international standard that has enabled thousands of businesses to minimize their environmental impacts or damages. It ensures that with ISO 14001 certification, a business can enhance its bottom-line with a straight-forward and effective environmental management system or EMS. Many businesses are worried about the obstacles that they may come across during the process of ISO certification, despite the benefits of environmental certification. Let’s learn about some of these challenges in our next slides. ISO 14001: Standard for Environmental Quality Management

3. Key Challenges in ISO 14001 Certification Process A lot of businesses do not know how to achieve ISO certification for environmental management. But, what are the most common obstacles? Here is a list we have compiled through evidence provided by organizations. Lack of Stakeholders’ Support Setting Environmental Goals Management Involvement Lack of Knowledge

4. Achieving ISO 14001 certification is only possible when there’s full enthusiasm, support, and actions from the organization’s top management. In most cases, the management’s involvement is less seen. Management Involvement Many businesses face difficulty in assuming and forming the goals for environmental management. While ISO 14001 standard calls for achieving realistic targets to maximize environmental sustainability, businesses with vast operations and complexities fail to realize the environmental hazards, what they impact, whom they impact, and other effects. As a result, they fail to materialize certain goals. Setting Environmental Goals

5. Lack of Knowledge When formulating their EMS, the business needs to identify the key environmental issues, determine targets and expectations, and match them with real environmental implications. So, if the business is not aware of how their activities affect the environment and how these effects can be resolved, they cannot formalize the aspects of the QMS. Acquiring support and participation from both the internal and external stakeholders of your business is essential for introducing the EMS. However, due to lack of proper communication or due to other issues, businesses could fail to actively engage their stakeholders. Lack of Stakeholders’ Support

6. Key Takeaway Most importantly, the implementation of EMS to achieve the ISO 14001 certification need active involvement from the management. The role of the management is so important when achieving certification, and that is where many businesses fail because their management focuses on profit-making aspects of the business, rather than the socio-environmental concerns.

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