What is environmental management and why is it needed?

Environmental management - a modern method of accounting for the benefits of environmental protection in the implementation and planning of the activities of any organization.It is also an integral part of modern management systems.

Environmental management has some repose.To date, it is presented as a control, which, in turn, limit the need of environmental protection.Environmental management is presented as a kind of wildlife management.This increase in the ability of nature to adapt to the industrial production and its adaptation to it.

There is an opinion that environmental management - is the regulation of culture and social relations in the sphere of public opinion.That is the only public opinion and human culture can neutralize the negative aspects of modern technology.

also environmental management is often compared with the progress of the regional production, that is, turn it to the management of a regional nature.

concept for the development of environmental management is all about management problems associated with the environment, taken as an object of management.The need for environmental management defines:

  • sharp decline ecology;
  • distinction regional distribution of industrial production;
  • increase in production capacity, the necessary new technologies;
  • the growing influence of the production of not only regional, but also on the nature of the world;
  • delineation of hazardous wastes and their sinks between the countries of the world economy (the concentration of waste);
  • emergence of opinions and content of the environmental policy in the world;
  • trends in the development of scientific and technological progress (nuclear technology, biotechnology and others).

The emergence of ISO 14001 is odnin of the most important international initiatives in the protection of nature.ISO 14001 - is a series of international standards for various environmental management system designed for businesses and organizations.

in accordance with ISO 14001, the mechanism for the implementation of various environmental management system and includes the following steps:

- initial assessment of the situation;

- plan for the implementation of various environmental management system;

- setting goals, objectives and policy development;

- surveillance system or monitoring;

- an objective performance evaluation;

- internal audit of various environmental management systems.

receive ISO certification in three ways:

  1. In accordance with the ISO 14001 certification when it is issued by the company or any foreign organization having accreditation in this area.
  2. In accordance with the Standard, in which case the document is issued certifying company having accreditation Rostechregulirovanie (Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology).
  3. On the basis of the relevant standards that are based on ISO 14001 and GOST, private organizations or self-regulatory organizations (SROs).