Environment

It is an international standard that applies to Environmental Management Systems and is designed to achieve a balance between maintaining the profitability of production and reducing the environmental impacts of the organization

Advantages:

• Increased environmental efficiency
• Reduced costs during treatment
• Reduction in the use of raw materials and energy

Legal advantages:

• Improvement and order in the fulfillment of the obligations of the organization, both at a formal and material level, which are required by the environmental legislation that may apply, facilitating the adaptation to the different changes that the organization may have to face.
• Reduction of the risk of non-compliance with applicable legislation, thereby directly reducing the possible damage that may be caused to the environment.
• Minimization of the risks of possible claims for civil liability of the organization, both at civil and criminal level.
• Prevents the organization from entering into lawsuits with the administration or other companies for unfair competition.
• It increases the trust of legislators, shareholders, investors, and insurance companies, thus improving the organization’s relationship with these groups and increasing its business capacity.

Advantages in commercialization:

• Improves the sales strategies of the products offered by the organization, increasing its differentiation from other organizations that similar market products.
• Marketing advantages
• It facilitates adaptation to the different demands of market users, such as, for example, the dissemination of ISO14001 certification.
• It opens the possibility of accessing public tenders that require the implementation of an Environmental Management System.
• It increases the possibility of producing significant investments, cost control, and the generation of new business opportunities.
• Increases the development of new technologies and new products.

Reputation advantages

It dramatically improves the perception of the company by customers, suppliers, and partners, both internally and externally.

Investment and environmental cost advantages

• It facilitates the identification of the environmental costs involved in the activity carried out by the organization.
• Increases the possibilities of access to financial aid issued by administrations for the protection of the environment.
• Reduce the costs incurred in not carrying out the management correctly.
• The probability of increasing costs resulting from bad actions by third parties and affecting the environment is minimized.
• Insurance premiums are reduced for liability issues related to environmental impact.

Production advantages

• Increases and improves the productive processes carried out in the organization.
• Control and savings are made with raw materials.
• Decrease in water consumption.
• Use and minimization of waste.
• Process efficiency control.
• Improve the incorporation of new technologies and developments that enhance production.
• Reduction of production costs.

The Energy Management System for Industry is part of the management system of an organization and is used to develop and implement the energy policy and manage the energy aspects that interfere with it.

This Management System is based on a PHVA (plan-do-check-act) continuous improvement cycle. The 50001 standard is compatible with other management systems such as quality and environment and can be integrated with them in the organization.

The economic costs and time of implementing the energy standard are reduced when an organization already has ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, and/or similar standards.
The implementation of an Energy Management System in a company based on the ISO 50001 standard makes it possible to reduce its energy and economic costs, in addition to reducing the environmental impact associated with the use of different types of energy.

Objectives:

• To enable the company to establish an effective policy that allows it to efficiently manage energy use in each of its activities or processes.
  Identify opportunities for improvement in energy use and performance.
• Establish goals and objectives according to the needs of the company and the points that have been marked as points of improvement.
• To provide a true picture of energy use and management in the company.
• Identify, measure, monitor, and analyze the keys and aspects that directly and indirectly affect energy performance.
• Review the adequacy of the energy management system used in the company and collect the necessary points for improvement.
• Apply continuous improvements to adapt work and production processes to changing market needs, customer needs and specifications, and changing social mentality, among many other aspects.

Benefits:

• Improving the energy efficiency of processes
• Legal compliance of the organization in energy matters
  Reduction of control costs
• Competitive and reputational improvements
• Promoting technological innovation
• Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

EMAS is the acronym for Eco-Management and Audit Scheme. It is a voluntary environmental management tool for companies and other organizations that allows them to assess their environmental impact, improve it in qualitative and quantitative terms and declare it in an official and transparent manner.

Organizations that successfully verify their environmental management system according to the EMAS Regulation obtain the EMAS label and are recognized by the European Union.

Benefits:

In addition to the advantages associated with the implementation of an ISO 14001 environmental management system, the EMAS Regulation helps organizations to contribute to the development of a Circular Economy, as EMAS:

• It requires the establishment of environmental performance indicators to analyze and measure the efficient use of resources, from a life-cycle perspective, and risk-based thinking.
• It allows not only to ensure legal compliance but also to anticipate the approval of new environmental requirements, which contributes to minimizing risks from a preventive approach and identifying new business opportunities.
• It requires the mandatory involvement of employees, making them aware of the importance of their participation in the management system This approach has been a feature of the EMAS Regulation since its inception.
• The Environmental Statement validated by an independent and accredited verifier is a powerful communication tool that helps the organization highlight the effort derived from the implementation of an environmental management system. It is also an exercise in transparency that is recognized by all stakeholders, including public administrations.
• It is a driving force for innovation since by promoting continuous improvement, the organization has to investigate new objectives for reducing consumption, process changes, search for less polluting materials, etc.