Get your business ready to implement the NEW standards.
It will save you time during implementation.
Reduces conflicts, duplication and miss-understandings.
Makes it easier to implement more than one standard.
Privides a framework with common terms and definitions.

Bringing Quality and Continuous Improvement into the heart of your business.
The revised standard will ensure that quality management is now completely integrated and aligned with the business strategies of your organization.

Leadership
Greater involvement in the management system by the leadership team will ensure the whole organization will be motivated towards the organizations goals and objectives.
Introduction of Risk & Opportunity Management
Reinforces use of the management system as a governance tool and will help identify business opportunities that contribute to bottom line improvements.

An Integrated Approach
With the new structure applicable to all new ISO management systems standards it wll be much easier to implement multiple, integrated management systems.

The new standard is based on Annex SL – the new high level structure (HLS). that brings a common framework to all management system standards.
This helps to keep consistency, align different management system standards, offer matching sub-clauses against the top-level structure and apply common language across all standards.

The key changes in the proposed standard are:
The emphasis on leadership
The focus on risk management
Emphasis on objectives measurement and change
Communication and awareness
Fewer prescriptive requirements
Increased focus on lifecycle perspective

Now the new standard has been published, organizations will find it easier to incorporate their environmental management system into the core business processes and gain greater business benefits.