Introduction to the ISO 14000 international environmental management standards

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:377226

McVaugh, J ^[1]

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1. Environmental Technology & Management, Houston, TX (United States)

International standards for environmental management are being drafted through a consensus process by hundreds of technical experts from over forty nations. The first are expected to be finalized by mid-year 1996. They are being drafted in an attempt to stem the proliferation of national and regional environmental management standards, the perhaps unintentional side-effect of which is restraint of trade. The ISO 14000 series of standards may be grouped into two categories: {open_quotes}product evaluation{close_quotes} and {open_quotes}organization evaluation{close_quotes} standards. This paper deals primarily with the latter category, because the organizationally related standards are expected to have a more profound effect thorughout the organizations that adopt them. This paper will also describe some of the commercial, economic and performance benefits which organizations may derive thorugh adoption and use of the standards.

• Research Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Amoco Production Co., Houston, TX (United States); Conoco, Inc., Stamford, CT (United States)
• OSTI ID: 377226
• Report Number(s): CONF-9509296--; ON: DE96001221
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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