Worldwide, 883,521 companies are in possession of this certificate, in Belgium there are 2,873, including two divisions of the Multi Masters Group: Cleaning Masters and Security Masters. Only the ISO 9001 quality standard scores better. The ISO 14001 standard is the second most popular standard worldwide. That is less than in Belgium, even though Canada has more than 330 times the surface area of Belgium. In Canada, for example, only 844 companies are certified. Most ISO 14001-certified companies are located in East Asia and Europe. That’s not that many, since the standard is intended for any company that has an impact on the environment. 992 of them are located in Belgium, including Cleaning Masters. How many companies have an ISO 14001 certificate?Īccording to the most recent available figures from ISO, in 2019 there were 312,580 companies worldwide in possession of an ISO 14001 certificate. The audit and possible certification are done by independent certification institutes. EN refers to the European publication of this international ISO standard.Īlthough the standard has been developed by the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO), this organisation does not award certificates itself.NBN is the Bureau for Standardisation, which is responsible in our country for the publication of international and European standards.The official name of the standard in Belgium is ‘NBN EN ISO 14001:2015’.
However, one of the requirements of the standard is that a company follows the national regulations. It is therefore independent of national legislation. What about national environmental legislation? The 2015 revision adapts the ISO 14001 standard to the so-called ‘High Level Structure’ (HLS), a kind of general framework that aligns all ISO standards. The 2015 revision (hence the addition ‘:2015’) is the second revision of the standard.
Where does the addition ‘:2015’ come from? In 1993, ISO set up a committee, which presented the standard ‘ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems’ three years later. At the beginning of the 1990s, the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) started an enquiry into the usefulness of an international standard for environmental care in companies. Since when has the ISO 14001 standard existed? Cleaning Masters uses environmentally friendly, probiotic cleaning products.
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