ISO 14001

It helps organizations to minimize the harmful effects caused by their activities on the environment, and enable them tocontinually improve on their environmental performance.
The ISO 14000 standards are practical tools for implementinga strategic approach that can bring return on investment in environment-related measures.
The systematic ISO 14001 approaches requires the organization to take a hard look at all areas where its activities have an environmental impact. And it can lead to
benefits like the following:
* reduced cost of waste management
* savings in consumption of energy and materials
* lower distribution costs
* improved corporate image among regulators, customers and the public
framework for continual improvement of environmental performance.It also helps to avoid pollution that could cost the company a fine for infringing environmental legislation