Accurately collecting, storing, and managing data is foundational to making strategic changes to your company’s environmental impact. Additionally, implementing tools and certifications gives you authority and credibility with employees, customers, and industry partners. The International Standardization Organization (ISO) develops best-practice standards and processes for businesses around the world. Created and regulated by experts, these ISO Standards ensure that these processes function as they should. 

ISO certifications (both 14001 and 50000 - ) work in tandem with the United Nations SDGs, disclosure platforms such as CDP, EcoVadis, and Supplier Assurance and is often a foundational certification for a company to pursue.

ISO 14000

ISO 14000 is a family of standards that specifically speaks to environmental management and impact, providing a systematic approach to collect, aggregate, store, and manage environmental compliance components. 

Within the ISO 14000 family of standards is ISO 14001:2015.  The core of ISO 14001:2015 is policies and procedures; it is primarily focused on understanding and documenting your environmental efforts. The ISO 14001 standard pulls in and organizes management of environmental sustainability as well as risk and liability, bringing cohesion across your organization.

ISO 50000
ISO 50000 is a family of standards that specifically speaks to healthy energy management systems, reducing energy consumption, environmental impact of energy use, and increasing profitability.  It specifies requirements for management practices that are important to obtain improved energy performance.  Within the ISO 50000 family of standards is ISO 50001:2021.  This core standard follows a similar framework to ISO 14001:2015 standard and can be incorporated into any existing ISO 14001 management system.

At Foresight, our team has over 100 years of combined experience in sustainability and standards implementation. Our experts stay current and up to date on standard requirements, allowing us to advise you in the best possible way towards achieving your goals. With a data-driven, systematic approach, we understand how to connect key personnel within the organization to create cross functional teams, identify existing policies and procedures that can be the foundation of these systems, and collect and present your data to achieve the most appropriate certification for your company.

Our team will begin by performing an assessment of your current processes and procedures and will provide a gap analysis for where improvement needs to be made. From there, we will advise on how to implement necessary changes or develop documentation for each missing component. With a multidisciplinary team, we can bring ideas and concepts for improvement from a wide range of experiences and apply them to your company to optimize procedures.

• Transparency for stakeholders
• Maintaining Industry compliance
• Improved environmental performance
• Reduces Environmental risk and liability
• Foundational systems for future certifications

Client Profile
National medical equipment manufacturer.

Before Foresight
More and more companies are realizing the importance of environmental impact and sustainability, but it doesn’t always come internally–sometimes it takes a push from the right source.  This company was getting stronger and more consistent feedback from their stakeholders that environmental and operational compliance was of value. Looking for a first step in their sustainability journey, they chose ISO 14000 as their first certification, but wanted assistance ensuring their investment of time and resources would be successful.

After Foresight
The Foresight team began by gathering and tracking data from this company to determine the gaps between their protocols and ISO requirements. As data was gathered and observed, we tied their existing systems into ISO, and created a more consistent, broadly accessible management system.  Because of their work implementing ISO, they will be able to continue to step into further sustainability and environmental responsibility with other certifications and workable solutions for their products. This certification became a springboard for future growth in sustainability.

Frequently Asked Questions

This process should be a joint effort between EHS personnel, product engineering, HR, and facilities team members.

This facilitated effort takes between 6-12 months.