Japanese style of management has become popular the world over. Some of the Japanese management approaches and techniques have gained global acceptance and are now being practical in many countries.
The 9000 family which ISO standard 9001 is a member of is designed to come up with a group of top quality management methods. The methods are intended to ensure organizations are offering the very best quality items for their clients and share holders as well. In this group there are eight individual administration principles that will make it well worthy of the time and money to get the accreditation.
The actual concept for ISO14001 came about back in the early 70s. Now of course the basic ideas of environmentally friendly manufacturing and materials production have been around long before then and began to take hold with the masses on a grander scale beginning in the early 1960s.
Trying to achieve certification to a standard which you may not fully understand, can be a daunting prospect – to say the least. The effort spent interpreting these standards & attempting to create a compliant system can become time-consuming and may not result in great success.