What is environmental management and what is it for?

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

Environmental management has several regulations. To date, it is presented as a management, which, in turn, is limited by the need to protect the environment. Ecological management is presented as a kind of management of wildlife. This increase in the ability of nature to adapt to industrial production, its adaptation to it.

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

Also, environmental management is often compared with the regional progress of production, that is, turning it into a regional management.

The concept for the development of environmental management is fully aimed at management problems related to the environment, adopted as an object of management. The need for environmental management determines:

• A sharp decline in ecology;
• Delineation of regional distribution of industrial production;
• Increase in production capacity required for new technologies;
• The increased influence of production not only on regional, but also on the world nature;
• The delineation of hazardous wastes, their sinks between countries of the world economy (waste concentration);
• The origin of the content of environmental opinion and worldview in politics;
• Trends in the development of scientific and technological progress (nuclear technology, biotechnology and others).

The emergence of ISO 14001 represents one of the most significant international initiatives in nature conservation. ISO 14001 is a series of international standards for various environmental management systems developed for enterprises and organizations.

In accordance with ISO 14001, the mechanism for the introduction of a different environmental management system consists of the following stages:

- assessment of the initial situation;

- Planning for the implementation of a different system of environmental management;

- setting goals, objectives and developing programs;

- monitoring system or monitoring;

- an objective assessment of the effectiveness of work;

- internal audit of various environmental management systems.

You can obtain an ISO certificate in three ways:

1. In accordance with ISO 14001, when it is issued by a certification company or any foreign organization that has accreditation in this field.
2. In accordance with GOST, in this case, the document is issued by a certified company that has the accreditation of the Rostekhregulirovanie (Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology).
3. Based on relevant standards developed on the basis of ISO 14001 and GOSTs, by private organizations or self-regulating organizations (SROs).