The ISO 14001 Environmental Management System is designed to systematically identify, prioritize, manage, and improve environmental aspects, enabling an organization to achieve its environmental objectives.
Environmental aspects are the interactions between an organization’s activities, products, and services that can cause environmental impacts. These include emissions to soil, water, and air, as well as noise, radiation, and energy consumption. An organization must address the environmental aspects it can control—such as emissions from its own production processes—and those it can influence, such as the energy usage of its products during their use phase.
ISO 14001 does not define what constitutes an acceptable environmental impact. Instead, the organization must determine this itself, based on an analysis of its environmental aspects and their potential effects, while taking into account legal requirements and communication with stakeholders. ISO 14001 requires that an organization strives for continual improvement of its environmental performance—meaning a consistent reduction in its environmental footprint.
An independent certification body conducts audits to verify whether Kamps meets the standard’s requirements. If all requirements are fulfilled, a certificate is issued. This certificate is valid for three years, after which recertification takes place
