ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 Transformers at the Lowest Price

What is ISO 14001?

ISO 14001 is a standardized management system that assists a company in controlling its effects on the environment. It was developed and approved by approximately 500 delegates from all over the world. The International Organization of Standards (ISO) formally published the ISO 14001 standard on September 1, 1996.

The ISO 14001 environment management system provides a proactive, orderly approach to control environmental issues and yields tangible and intangible benefits. Companies with an ISO 14001 system have reduced energy consumption, cut generated wastes, streamlined internal operations.

Implementing ISO 14001 requires companies to identify the parts of its operations that cause the greatest environmental impact. A program must then be established to control and reduce pollution caused by these operations. As these discharges are reduced and brought under control, resources can then be used to address the operations that have less impact.

Overview of the Standard

The ISO 14001 standard is a tool organizations use to establish an effective environmental management system. The standard requires the company to install an environmental policy, plan an approach to managing its environmental impacts, implement and operate system's operation, use corrective actions to fix problems.

The standard requires documentation. This Documentation must include the environmental policy, a description of the objectives and goals, management responsibilities, procedures to operate and control equipment that causes environmental impacts, and management review meeting minutes.

Achieving ISO 14001 Registration

Implementing and complying with ISO 14001 obviously takes time and money. Most companies need 12 to 18 months to become registered. The resources required to implement ISO 14001 are based on a number of factors, such as the type and size of the organization, existing management systems such as the one's Thormag has in place, and third-party audits. These registration audits are conducted in two phases. The first phase reviews the Thormag documentation, how it is set up, and a survey of the site. The second phase, usually performed several months later, evaluates whether the Thormag is operating in accordance with the ISO 14001 standard and the company's written and unwritten procedures, similar to ISO 9000. Thormag received both ISO9001 and ISO 14001 certification in the summer of 2003.

Thormag receives ISO 14001 & ISO 9001 in 2003 Making it the only Transformer Manufacture in North America to receive both