... suggests that MSs can help organizations to improve their overall performance and provide a sound basis for sustainable development initiatives (International Organization for Standardization, 2015). Several MSs exist, but the best know MSs include QMS (ISO 9001), EMS (ISO 14001) and OHSMS (OHSAS 18001...

..., the paper presents and analyzes the implementation of the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 management system (MS) standards. The organization analyzed is an SME of the heating and air conditioning sector that had no MSs implemented (common in the sector) and decided to implement an IMS based on both function-specific...

...Alexandra Simon; Alex Douglas Purpose In this article, the authors aim to start from the premise that management system standards (MSSs), such as ISO 9001 or ISO 14001, should not be considered individually, but in conjunction with other systems, because of the similarities and parallelisms among...

...Cory Searcy; Oguz Morali; Stanislav Karapetrovic; Kristine Wichuk; Daryl McCartney; Sheldon McLeod; Don Fraser Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the key findings of a colloquium on ISO 14001. The colloquium focused on three key areas: critical loops and synergies among management...

... Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. The most important standard is ISO 14001, published in 1996 and slightly modified in 2004, which specifies requirements for environmental management systems. Worldwide, 188,815 organisations have obtained a certificate for their environmental...