Our environmental management solutions for industry
To offer services with a lower environmental impact, industry players need to be familiar with best practices in environmental management and demonstrate that they are implementing them.
Your needs
Do you work in the industrial sector in a role that involves environmental protection issues? We provide you with access to standards, market intelligence solutions, training, and audit-based recognition.
Obtaining NF Environnement certification
For many products with a lower environmental impact.
Obtaining the European Ecolabel
The power of a European symbol of recognition.
Request an expert in standards
AFNOR BAO will send you an ISO 14001 expert for a QSE assignment.
Obtain AFAQ ISO 14001 certification
A sign of international recognition.
AFNOR helps you define your needs
Why focus on environmental protection?
To address the environmental challenges threatening the planet, there are two types of action: regulatory requirements and voluntary commitment. The environmental management system (EMS) falls into the second category. Implementing one is by no means mandatory, but it is recommended to improve efficiency, ensure nothing is overlooked along the way, and sometimes even to win contracts. This is especially true in industry!
To this end, there is a universal guide: the voluntary ISO 14001 standard. It aims for continuous improvement in a company’s environmental performance by encouraging it to organize itself to reduce the impacts associated with its operations: raw materials, water, energy, waste… The ISO 14001 standard is based on the Deming Cycle and its four key steps (plan, do, check, act) aimed at the goal of continuous improvement. The ISO 14001 standard lists 18 requirements divided into six chapters:
- General requirements
- Environmental policy
- Planning
- Implementation of actions to meet the environmental policy
- Monitoring and corrective actions
- Management review
Source of figures: Ademe, ISO Survey, INSEE
