Culture Change Environmental management within an organization is either penalty driven or strategy driven. Instead, the agency is looking to foster an assistance-based approach to environmental quality control namely, more carrot, and less stick. Since ISO 14000 inherently breeds proactivity rather than reactivity, it fits well into the new schema. Ever since we progressed from the Feudal System, there has been greater opportunity to exercise free choice and free will. In general terms, choosing unwisely leads to disruption and, consequently, more lawmaking.
Wise decisions result in cohesion, and often involve greater initial effort and self-restraint.
ISO 14000 can be put to various uses within your company. The highest level is to implement the requirements of the standards throughout the whole company and become registered by an auditor that is accredited by a recognition body. This process can be very costly to establish and maintain. It involves a high degree of training at all levels of the company for employees to be aware of, and committed to, the ISO registration effort. Your company is also free to implement ISO 14000 at a specific site, or for a specific division of the business.