ISO 14001 governs environmental management systems – becoming certified denotes your organisation’s legal compliance, helps to reduce your environmental impact, and demonstrates to potential and existing customers that you are committed to being as environmentally-friendly as possible. In this blog, we will break down the environmental standard, explaining how you can be certified.
ISO standardisation can make a real impact, both on your business and (on a far larger scale) on global issues. Decarbonizing the energy sector is a key priority for most countries in the world– a recent ISO Foresight Trend Report details the key standardisation trends to watch as the global energy transition continues, which we…
Welcome to our November update, another really busy one in the lead up to Christmas! With just a few weeks until many take some time off to enjoy the festive season, here’s what we have been up to. Quality Week was in November and a great opportunity for us to celebrate the very thing we…
The UK is currently hosting the COP26 Climate Change Conference – and with various goals and objectives being reported across news outlets, it might seem challenging to translate global agreements into industry consequences. Today, we want to talk about the potential consequences of the COP26 conference on ISO 14001, and how being ISO compliant can…
ISO 14001:2015 is an International Environmental Management Standard (EMS) and is, perhaps, the most widely recognised environmental accreditation of its kind. It demonstrates an organisation’s dedication to controlling the environmental impact of its activities. An ISO 14001 system should actively control the way organisations understand and manage their footprint to ensure sustainability, prevent pollution and protect the environment. An environmental management system looks…
Welcome to our monthly update… October was another busy month for the Mark1 team, as well as 7 days’ worth of virtual assessment assistance, we conducted various audits and management reviews, as has become the norm. Our webinar, ‘Working in a Remote ISO World,’ that took place on the 7th of October was a great…
Paperwork in any business is a given, and can often be a much bigger stress factor than necessary. Most of the time, this is due to a lack of an accessible document management system, resulting in disorganisation and persistent errors from wrongly dated/labelled documents; contributing to wasted time and profit.
There are numerous benefits to be gained by striving to reduce your carbon footprint and in the current climate, both economic and environmental, it really makes sense for a business to focus on their waste management. Not only will the introduction of an Environmental Management system (EMS) help to reduce a business’s negative impacts on…
Pressure for corporations to monitor and build upon efficiency in regards to their carbon footprint has never been higher, with estimates that at the current rate, global warming could become irreversible by 2024.
In the modern era, many firms are keen to be as environmentally friendly as possible. Being environmentally friendly can help to save money, it can improve efficiency and when it comes to creating an image and identity that many customers associate with, it is hard to argue with being considered to be an environmentally friendly…