UPDATED TO REFLECT REVISED STANDARD, ISO 14001:2015
An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a widely-used, systematic, yet flexible approach to managing compliance and improving environmental performance. The Retail Compliance Center EMS Guidance consists of explanatory modules, Excel-based tools and sample procedures that are customized for the retail industry. The guidance is based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 standard for environmental management which follows a Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle of continuous improvement. This guidance can be used to optimize an existing EMS, pull compliance programs into an EMS framework or to develop a new EMS. It can also be used to improve a compliance program without implementing an entire EMS.
Download the EMS Guidance Modules in pdf (
) and the EMS Tools in Excel (
).