ISO 14001
Protect and enhance your most important asset, your people, to drive business excellence.
ISO 14001 helps businesses of all sizes across all sectors make their day to day operations more sustainable. Sustainability can ultimately save money, improve brand reputation, engage employees and build resilience against uncertainty as well as the ability to rapidly adapt to change.
Benefits of ISO 14001
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Reduced energy and material costs
By choosing renewable energy sources and committing to less in-house waste, production processes become more efficient and cost-effective. According to some researchers this is the number one benefit for a business to adopt an EMS.
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Reduced waste management costs
With less waste produced by the business, the costs of waste removal and off-site processing are cut significantly. During implementation, companies can create a framework that throws every stage of their waste-handling under the microscope, from storage through to labelling and finally transportation and disposal.
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Ongoing compliance with legislation
ISO 14001 works in tandem with your regulatory responsibilities, ensuring that your company meets environmental targets set by both local and national government. With fines increasing for companies falling foul of their environmental obligations together with the bad publicity this can cause for them, no organisation can afford to ignore its environmental impact anymore.
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Reduced insurance premiums
Because there’s less risk of a certified business creating an environmental incident or being found liable due to negligence in cases of ecological damage insurance premiums are proven to decrease.
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Improved company image and marketability
Research shows that while customers are not willing to pay extra for a green business, they now expect sustainability to be a baseline. If a company is failing to meet its green targets or enact any kind of positive environmental change then customers are likely to punish this organisation and shop elsewhere.
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Pre-qualification in tender processes
Some business contracts will require your organisation to demonstrate an adherence to environmental standards. ISO 14001 often can pre-qualify you for this part of the application process.
