you are to create a fictitious company that has at leastfive (5) environmental issues that should be covered by the ISO 14000 standard.The paper should focus on creating a document used to persuade...

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Introduction:
With the increasing environmental concerns, the government took different steps to take
a safeguard for the environment by making it compulsory for the organizations to follow
different environmental standards like ISO 14000.
No organization is forced to implement ISO 14000, at least not yet. To develop an EMS
to conform with the standard will require both effort and expense. The amount of effort and
expense will depend on the organization’s cu
ent environmental status and disposition. There
are several reasons due to which the organizations feels that they should adhere to the ISO 14000
standard.
Hypothetical Organization:
We are taking a hypothetical hospital which has a strong focus on health care and
development, but have some loop holes in discarding its waste and other concerns which are
elated to the environment. The organization has a strong focus on different aspects and
standards that has been
ought forward by the government as well as the law.
The hospital does not take care of different emissions that has been produced by the
hospital, this relates to air emission and ash emission from your medical waste incinerator, spills
of laboratory chemicals, high level of radio active waste, paper and food wastes sent to the local
landfill, wastewater from the hospital laundry etc. are some of the concerns of the hospital in
espect to the ISO 14000 and environmental impact.
Reasons to have registered ISO 14000:
ISO 14000 is designed to help organizations manage their responses to all applicable
egulatory concerns through an effective environmental management system. In order to conform
with ISO 14000, an organization must meet the standard’s requirements for an EMS and comply
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with all applicable government regulations. This means that when an organization is audited by
the ISO 14000 registrar, regulatory compliance is part of the audit.
ISO 14001 has been the management system standard. It has been just the normative
standard in series. It means that the ISO 14001 has been the standard against that the certifiable
audit has been ca
ied out. This has not been the performance or the product standard however
framers have developed that with idea, which result of their implementation could lead towards
est organisational environmental performance. This Standard represents the shift to the holistic
proactive management as well as entire employee involvement. ISO 14001 requests the
employees for defining its environmental roles by bottom up as well as needs the commitment,
esources and also visibility of the top management for supporting them. This has been the
comprehensive framework which consists of core elements to manage the processes as well as
activities of the companies for identifying the specific environmental aspects the company may
control & over that this may be expected towards having the influence. The company or facility
or the organisation of any size around the world may use this standard. The ISO 14001
International Standard has been applicable to any company which wishes towards Implementing,
maintaining as well as improving the EMS to assure itself of their conformance among their
stated environmental policy, demonstrating those conformance towards others, seeking the
certification or the registration of their EMS through the external company, making the self
determination as well as self declaration of the conformance with such a International Standard
The ISO 14000 Handbook lists sixteen reasons for adopting the ISO 14000 EMS,
including the following:
 Ease of trade— A common International Standard, as opposed to conflicting
national standards, will reduce ba
iers to trade.
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...