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I did not understand clearly your 30th October 2010 06:24 PM message (maybe can you explain or restate it more clearly for me) but it's seems to me reduce the environment concept only to pollution impacts of our businesses. But typically the consumption of natural resources and biodiversity are other aspects in the preservation of our environment.
Hi Henria,
I got your point. 'Pollution' is quite a broad term and does encompass variety of elements in addition to 'emissions' or 'discharges' as commonly understood and perhaps that's the reason ISO 14001 seeks a top management commitment for 'Prevention of Pollution' alone which can include (Pl. refer note under 3.18 of ISO 14001:2004:
Prevention of pollution can include source reduction or elimination, process, product or service changes, efficient use of resources, material and energy substitution, reuse, recovery, recycling, reclamation and treatment.
BS OHSAS 18001 now has enhanced alignment & compatibility with ISO 14001/ ISO 9001 and even with ILO-OSH:2001. I don't think it's a simple 'copy paste' from these standards with little changes. [/QUOTE]1rst idea :
In my 30th October 2010 06:06 PM message I observed that BSI had a good OSHMS standard (BS 8800) and then created a second one (BS OHSAS 18001) only copying and pasting ISO 14001 (regarding Environment) and just changing some words. I think it's the reason this second BS is not very good*, compared to other OSHMS standards specially and directly built for OSH management (ILO-OSH, ANSI Z10, CSA Z1000, AS/NZS..., etc).
Although I haven't gone through ANSI Z10 & other standards mentioned by you, yet I find OHSAS 18001 perfectly in line with ILO-OSH 2001 as is clear from the "correspondence between OHSAS 18001 & ILO-OSH 2001" . No difference at all.
Only thing that ISO 14001 doesn't so far focus is 'human health' and (enhanced) alignment of its various requirements with national and international laws. Else the standard in it's present form is quite adequate to provide a reasonable platform for setting up of an EMS with which organizations can well manage their significant environmental aspects. Hopefully the future revisions would include what's missing now and would be more professional in their approach.note : we might ask also whether ISO 14001 is really so relevant and sufficient for the Environment (such as ISO 9001 appears to be for the quality, or ILO-OSH for occupational safety & health) or if it does not deserve to be a little more robust and professional. But that's another story and I'm not an expert of the Environment (nor Quality).