The How to Implement an Environmental Management System manual describes the necessary management elements that an organization should use to achieve effective management of the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services.

By following the ISO14001 standard, organizations can develop a blueprint of the essential components necessary for a complete EMS and specific requirements as to what should be included in each of these components.

It provides a specification that an organisation’s EMS may be audited against to assure that their management systems are adequate. Such an EMS system not only relates to all activities, products and services of an organization, but also includes planning activities, and the developing, achieving and reviewing of the EMS.