ISO 14001 Certification

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An ISO 14001:2004 certificate proves that your Environmental Management System has been measured against a best practice standard and found compliant.
ISO 14001 certification lets customers know they can trust you are actively minimising the environmental impacts of your company’s processes, products, and services.

The internationally recognised ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System standard is generic. It is applicable to any type of organisation in any industry sector. Created by the International Organisation for Standardisation, it is based on the two concepts of continual improvement and regulatory compliance.

Iso 14001 training – Iso 14001 certification

ISOCEL will help you identify strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. Our auditors assess how well your Environmental Management System supports the areas of greatest risk to you, in addition to measuring compliance against elected standard.

Environmental policies are good for business. Properly practiced and clearly communicated they improve customer and public relations. But concern for the environment commands much more than goodwill. It delivers important cost savings. Better uses of energy, careful selection of raw materials and controlled recycling of waste products all contribute to the bottom line, securing vital competitive advantage.

Proof of a responsible approach is fast becoming a key purchasing criteria. Environmentally aware organisations prefer to do business with like minded companies, those who demonstrate their commitment through the internationally recognised ISO 14001 standard. With new legislation focusing on creating a cleaner world, this trend is set to continue. The principles of simplicity and the application of ordinary common sense are particularly pertinent to ISO 14001 and documented procedures are only required where their absence could lead to deviations from the environmental policy and the objectives and targets. Similarly the extent of documentation and the resources dependent on it will relate to the size of the organisations and the nature of its activities.

ISO 14001 Certification will increase your chnaces of becoming a prefered supplier.

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Case Studies.

Jack Cuthbert’s Bakery, Co Cork, Ireland

Jack Cuthbert’s bakery has been baking many different types of handmade bread such as Artisanal breads, traditional Irish breads, French breads, Polish breads and health breads, for many years in Cork. The company currently employs 25 people at its base in Midleton, Co. Cork.

With the aim of making significant environmental savings the company focussed on energy reduction, waste minimisation, water conservation and logistics optimisation. Through the project, economic savings in excess of €47,000 were achieved.

Key achievements:

1) Energy: 0.03kW of electricity saved per unit of bread produced, equating to 18.5% reduction in electricity consumption between 2010 and 2011.

2) Logistics optimisation: optimisation resulted in saving of 13.48t CO2 (or €41,800) p.a.

3) Waste: 24t waste diverted from landfill p.a. (savings €3,800)

4) New products: two new products developed, with new markets.

5) Water: reduction of 433m3 of water per annum.

6) Staff training & awareness: increased staff awareness and involvement in environmental improvements within the day to day operations of the company.

Dawn Meats, Ireland

Dawn Meats, part of the Queally Group, is one of the largest suppliers of Irish and British beef, Irish and British pork, Irish and British lamb. The group processes in excess of 500,000 cattle and 750,000 lamb per year, from which it produces 200,000 tonnes of added value meat products.

Dawn Meats plant in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo targeted water, energy and packaging savings.

Key achievements:

1) Over 10,000 m3 p.a. reduction in water consumption across the site (34% saving)

2) €25,000 reduction in oil consumption, due to water reuse & conservation and refrigeration heat recovery

3) A reduction of 166t (or 10%) of cardboard usage, by applying eco-design principles to product packaging and implementation of reusable returnable packaging

4) Logistics – reduction of up to 85 truck journeys due to packaging redesign

5) Staff were trained in eco-design techniques for packaging and water minimisation

6) Packaging minimisation and energy saving initiatives have been rolled out to other company sites

ISO 14001 training and or certification will help you to understand and learn more about the environment and safety within the environment. This type of training will allow you to gain an ISO 14001 certification which is ideal if you would wish to further your career in the environmental industry. A course of this type will thoroughly cover ISO 14001:2004 which allows you to establish and maintain an Environmental Management System (EMS)

If you work in a business that has a reputation to uphold in the environmental industry, allowing employees to take up the training and receive certification can have great and many benefits to both you and your business.

ISO 14001 courses can help to enhance both an employee and the business that they work on, it can also open up many doors into further careers allowing the individual to enhance themselves for the future. Even though receiving full training may be stressful and lots of hard work for all involved it can help to build up an individual’s CV and career whilst also enhancing the business they work in.

End of an era: Apple set to announce first profits dip in 10 years

Posted on: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 | Category: News category 1

The technology giant is widely forecast to announce a decline in earnings amid reports of a slowdown in sales of its iPhone and suggestions that the company has lost crucial ground to rivals such as Samsung.

Just last week Apple lost its position as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company when its shares hit their lowest levels in a year-and-a-half.

This came after one of the firm’s suppliers – Cirrus Logic which provides sound components for the iPhone and iPad – said sales of a particular chip were slowing down.

Industry observers expect today’s report to show a dip in profits of up to about 20 per cent, compared with the same period last year.

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Posted on: Monday, February 25th, 2013 | Category: News category 1

ISO 9001 is about a Quality Management System (QMS). QMS in organisations is not optional – it is the way the organisation operates. Quality is all the activities that are performed that contribute to successfully satisfying the customer. By definition that is the activities and processes performed by people, their responsibilities, how they process what information in order to make decisions – everything that goes on in an organisation in order to get good product out the door. A management system over quality aims to ensure that all of these activities, tasks, etc. are performed in an effective manner. That does not mean overly documented procedures, bureaucratic supporting activities that are not value driven, not records nor activities for the sake of “a standard”. Quality is ONLY about satisfying customers and managing it should be in a sensible and effective way. That is a Quality Management System.
ISO 9001 is not a program. It is a set of requirements that represent a good model for helping us assess and improve our QMS, if we choose. Certification…that’s a different matter!
All organisations have a QMS – it is what they do, and when asked to prove they have a good one, the question of ISO 9001 comes up. Faced with having to take that next step and compare ISO to their QMS, apply additional controls and then to seek certification, they want to minimise the cost. Problem is that many organisations overly complicate and overly bureaucratise their system. They think they have to do “more”. They want to minimise that cost and so they limit the extent of where ISO is applied. Limit the extent of ISO in the organisation and that reduces the audit effort and cost.
Some organisations will argue that parts of their facility or product range do not need to be ISO certified. Often they will claim that some organisational processes are too simple, too complex, confidential (secret) or that they will seek certification in a staged approach and some areas will not be certified immediately (and often never are). Usually they find they have to become ISO certified because a customer is pressuring them and therefore they want to limit it to those areas of their organisation relevant to that customer.
QMS is everywhere in the organisation, ISO is designed to help us do it better and if it is restricted to specific areas it means that some parts of the organisation are operated in a formal, disciplined and controlled manner and others are not. It doesn’t mean they are badly run but it isn’t possible for management to know that they are well run.
If there is true understanding and commitment to quality, not specifically to ISO but to ensuring customers are satisfied, then the QMS will be formalised with appropriate controls across the whole organisation. That is, after all, how the organisation operates and an appropriate level of control is necessary to make sure that all parts of the organisation are controlled appropriately. How much of it, if any, is ISO certified is irrelevant.

Posted on: Monday, January 7th, 2013 | Category: News category 1

JOB losses at multinational firms were the lowest in a decade and 6,570 positions were created last year, according to new figures from IDA Ireland.

With 12,722 jobs created, there were 145 individual investments with 40pc of these coming from firms investing in Ireland for the first time.

The figures come after positive job creation news from indigenous Irish firms and a small drop in the December jobless statistics.

However, IDA Ireland warned that challenges still remain including competition from other countries keen to attract foreign direct investment and the fallout of patent expiry in the pharmaceutical sector.

Among the biggest investments in 2012 were those from Apple, PayPal, EA Games and Eli Lilly.

The IDA said it has been focusing on attracting employment intensive services to Ireland which leads to speedy creation of jobs as part of its Horizon 2020 strategy.

It is already ahead of its target of creating 62,000 direct jobs by 2014 from 640 new investments.

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