Exhaustion of available resources,realisation of rapidly increasing consumption debris is narrowing the living space for next generations, increasing reactions of public opinion forced corperations to involve the environmental aspects of their operations in business strategies and long-term plans in order to stay in business. Thus, the phenomenon of environmental management developed and started to take part in business management.ISO 14000 Environment Management System is an international standards series that contain topics such as sustainable development, protection of global recources,etc. EMS has become very important fin the world and in our country over the years. EMS is a part of a company's general management structure and an important tool to identify the short and long-term environmental effects of company's products,services and processes. ISO 14000 EMS Standards is a standard series that stipulate companies build and advance a system and ensure continuity of it in order to minimize all their damages to environment, to reduce resource and energy usage and ensure continuity of these actions by controling their own actions.
ISO 14001:1996 EMS Standard published by ISO is envisioned to be able to used by any organization regardless of its size or sector. ISO 14001:1996 standard's revision process is decided on 1999 by taking EMS experience of corporations with a license into consideration.ISO 14001:2004 is published on 15th November 2004.
Especially for suppliers in automotive sector,motive to be prefered are having an EMS as a main industry operating condition and an ISO 14001 license is a condition along with fullfilling the terms of customers.It is imperative in order to increase the satisfaction in relationship between manufacturer and customer.
Creation of Enterprise EMS passes through some basic steps:
- A policy statement that states that the aim is to improve the quality of environment and to protect natural resources
- Plans and programs to carry out the policies within and outside the enterprise.
- Integration of these plans to daily activities and company culture;
- Evaluation,audition and review of environmental management performance in perspective of policies,plans and programs.
- Training for perceiving environmental problems within the enterprise.
- Publication of information regarding company's environmental performance.