ISO 14001 Certification

What is ISO 14001?

ISO 14001 is a series of international standards on environmental management. It provides a framework for the development of an environmental management system and the supporting audit programme.

ISO 14001 benefits:

1.Operational Benefits

• Efficiency, discipline and operational integration with ISO 9000
• Greater employee involvement in business operations with a more motivated workforce
• Easier to obtain operational permits and authorizations
• Assists in developing and transferring technology within the company
• Helps reduce pollution
• Fewer operating costs
• Savings from safer workplace conditions
• Reduction of costs associated with emissions, discharges, waste handling, transport & disposal
• Improvements in the product as a result of process changes
• Safer products

2. Environmental Benefits

• Minimizes hazardous and non-hazardous waste
• Conserves natural resources - electricity, gas, space and water with resultant cost savings
• Prevents pollution and reduces wastage

3.Marketing Benefits

• Demonstrates to customers that the firm has met environmental expectations
• Meets potential national and international government purchasing requirements
• Delivers profits from marketing "green" products
• Provides a competitive marketing tool
• Improves international competitiveness

4.Financial Benefits

• Improves the organization’s relationship with insurance companies
• Elimination of costs associated with conformance to conflicting national standards
• Process cost savings by reduction of material and energy input
• Satisfying investor / shareholder criteria
• Helps reduce liability and risk
• Improved access to capital

VinaCert always commites to bring customers high quality and professional certification services which satisfies customers’ appropriate needs based on each body’s regulations. Therefore, customers’ benefit brought by VinaCert might be listed as below:

• Demonstrating customers’ commitments about quality management system, products conformity in accordance with the standards/regulations
• Ensuring customers’ products and services to meet legal requirements (VinaCert was licensed by Vietnam state agency and accredited its capabilities by international body  in accordance with international standards)
• Assessment results are always objective, fair, confidential;
• Guaranteeing the transparency of public information of customers to relevant parties.
• VinaCert teams have highly qualified professionals who are  experienced in many areas of economics , politics , society , science and technology,  educated not only domestic but also oversea (trained and certified IRCA ), have a good understanding of laws. This will reward the improvement.Moreover, more values will be added to help improving the performance of evaluated organizations.
• Professional staffs in the field of certification of conformity will always bring a lot of useful informations and satisfy customers’ needs.
• Certification systems spread throughout the country providing services to customers in every where. Customers can save cost and time for scientific evaluation processes and procedures are quickly and conveniently.