ISO 14001: Definitions environmental management system
1- Continuous improvement:
The process of strengthening the environmental management system to achieve improvements in the overall environmental performance within the framework of the environmental policy of the facility.
Note: This process does not have to run simultaneously across all activities.
2- Environment:
The space in which the facility operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, plants, animals, humans and their environmental relationships.
Note: The meaning of space in this regard extends beyond the establishment to the cosmic system.
2- Environmental aspects:
Elements of the organization’s activities, products or services that can interact with the environment.
Note: An environmental impact is an environmental aspect that has or can have a tangible environmental impact.
4- Environmental impact:
Any change in the environment that is harmful or beneficial, in whole or in part, and caused by the activities of the establishment, its products or services.
5- Environmental Management System:
This part of the overall administrative system, which includes the organizational environment, planning, activities, responsibilities, experiences, methods, methods and resources for development, implementation, completion, examination and maintenance of environmental policy.
6- Reviewing the environmental management system:
The logical and documented investigation process to obtain evidence and evaluate it objectively to verify whether the environmental management system in the facility is compatible with the characteristics of the facility. Report the results of this process to management.
7- Environmental objective:
The overall environmental goal that results from the environmental policy and which the facility monitors to achieve and which can be measured whenever possible.
8- Environmental Performance:
The measurable results of the environmental management system are related to the entity’s control over environmental aspects, based on environmental policy, objectives, and goals.
9- Environmental Policy:
The establishment’s report on its intentions and principles towards its comprehensive environmental performance, including the framework for action and the establishment of environmental objectives and targets.
10- Environmental Target:
Detailed performance requirements are broken down whenever practicable, applicable to the facility or part of it, which are highlighted by environmental objectives and need to be imposed and adhered to in order to achieve those objectives.
11- The interested party:
The individual or group concerned or affected by the environmental performance of the facility.
12- The establishment:
The company, institution, factory, project, institute, or part or union of the above, whether limited or unlimited, public or private, with functions and self-management.
Note: In the case of establishments whose number of units exceeds one operating unit, the single working unit can be treated as an establishment.
13- Reducing pollution:
Use of processes, expertise, materials, or products that prevent, reduce, or control
Pollution, which can include recycling, treatment, process change, control of machinery, or
The optimal use of materials or the use of alternative materials.
Note: It includes the inherent advantages of reducing pollution, reducing environmental impacts, improving productivity and reducing costs.
