This course introduces the ISO 14001:2004 standard by discussing its advantages to any organization desiring to develop an EMS. It describes the detailed requirements for implementing the ISO 14001 standard, EMS documentation, aspect-impact assessment, and for developing environment objectives as well as environment management plans to implement the system. After explaining how the system is developed, this course describes how to audit the system, details a tool kit of more than 200 questions checklist to audit the system and report audit findings, and describes steps for implementing ISO 14001 certification.

Overall, this course helps an organization understand ISO 14001 requirements, document EMS, implement the system, evaluate through audit process, and finally certify the system with structured improvements to succeed in today's competitive marketplace.