Environmental Management System

Environmental Management System (EMS) is an globally recognized standard for controlling & managing of environmental impacts of the business of an organization. EMS verifies the impact of an organization’s day to day business activities on the environment.

EMS is very helpful for organizations in establishing the environmental goals, objectives & targets, and also helps in evaluation of how well they are being achieved. EMS ensures organization’s environmental authorities , customers and stakeholders that organization have assessed variable impact of business activities over organization’s surroundings & right steps have taken to mitigate or reduce the negative impacts.

This standard will guide the organization’s business through the controls & measures needed for any business activity of the organization that effects the environment to drive the continual improvement in the environmental performance of the business.

Accreditation Scope

UKIAF provides the accreditation to deliver the ISO 14001:2015 certificate in conformity of the

• ISO 17021-1:2015 - Conformity assessment —Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems and
• ISO/IEC 17021-2:2016 - Conformity assessment —Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems Part 2 : Competence Requirement for Auditing and Certification of Environmental Management System

Benefits Of UKIAF Accreditation

Accreditation by a recognized and respected board such as UKIAF provides independent verification that certification bodies are competent enough & comply with industry and/or international standards.

UKIAF assesses and accredits management systems of certification bodies that demonstrate competence to audit and certify organizations and conform with the international standard for certification bodies.

UKIAF accreditation provides a significant advantage to the organization, who strives to meet the regulatory requirements of international standards to improve their business process & delivery of services for the customer satisfaction.

With the help of UKIAF accreditation certification bodies are able to fosters confidence and acceptance of the certification body’s certifications by end users in the public and private sectors.