International environmental management standards (ISO 9000´s less tractable siblings)

Author

Cascio, Joe

Author_Institution

EH&S Stand., US Tech. Advisory Group, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-4 May 1994

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

28

Abstract

Before the advent of ISO 9000 Quality Management standards, the International Organization for Standardization´s (ISO) nearly exclusive focus was on international technical and safety standards. Then, some ten years ago, the ISO impanelled a new technical committee (TC 176) to develop “Quality Management” standards for organizations. With that, it entered the relatively “soft” science of organizational management. This resulted in the ISO 9000 series of quality standards which have won adherents throughout the world and have (in some regions) become requirements of trade. Now, ISO has formed Technical Committee 207 to develop yet another set of management standards, this time focusing on the considerably less tractable subject of environmental protection activities within organizations

Keywords

Certification; Costs; Environmental management; ISO standards; Management training; Materials testing; Quality management; Standards development; Standards organizations; Standards publication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 1994. ISEE 1994., Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1769-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.1994.337277

Filename

337277