ISO 14001:2015. What is New?

Over 300,000 companies worldwide have implemented ISO 14001, the market leading certification system for environmental management systems. The popularity of ISO 14001 is a result of the continuous efforts of the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) committee to revise and update the standard, in keeping with current ecological, political and social developments. In this article, Dr. Thijs Willaert and DQS CFS, ISO partners for certification of management systems, have analyzed the essential modifications in the ISO 14001:2015, in comparison with the last revision dating back to 2009.