Verification New Zealand

The ISO 14001 standard, which addresses environmental and legal issues, helps organisations to manage the impact of their operations on the environment and reduce the environmental risk of an organisation’s processes and products. There is a strong focus on improvement throughout the standard, and organisations should also benefit by reducing costs and saving resources.

The standard covers the following:

• An environmental policy, in which the organisation states its intentions and commitment to environmental performance
• Planning, in which the organisation analyses the environmental aspects and the impact of its operations
• Implementation and operation: the development and placement of processes that will bring about environmental goals and objectives
• Checking and corrective action: monitoring and measurement of performance indicators to ensure that goals and objectives are being met
• Management review: review of the Environmental Management System (EMS) by the organisation's top management to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy, effectiveness and continual improvement

Certification Process

• Contact us. We can visit you on site or send out an application form. Complete and return the form.
• An auditor will be assigned to you and will make contact to discuss your needs and to go over the audit process.
• Once your procedures have been completed your auditor will complete a document review of your systems against the chosen standard. This gap analysis is intended to make sure the system you have written complies with the standard and covers all of your business processes.
• The audit process for EMS is required to involve two onsite stages: Stage 1 and Stage 2. The Stage 2 audit is the normal initial assessment. Stage 1 can be a preassessment visit. The Stage 1 visit can include the manual review.
• Clearance of non-conformances raised at the audit. This may require an additional visit but it usually doesn't.
• Once the audit process is complete, a decision is made as to whether to certify you. You will then be offered certification, usually subject to accepting some standard terms and conditions.

At periods from 3-12 months thereafter (depending on performance and preference) you will be subject to review or surveillance audits and then a full reassessment at about the third anniversary of your certification.      

Further Information

To make an enquiry or request a quote please email info@verification.co.nz.

To make an application, please download and complete this form (application-form-ems.pdf).