Intended Audience for Guidelines

The ISO 14000 series of standards, Environmental Management Standard, has been established to specifically address environmental management. ISO 14000 is based on, and will therefore complement, ISO 9000 and will help identify specific environmental components for integration. If you chose to use ISO 14000, nothing in these guidelines will be invalidated. 

ISO 14000 has been included in Exhibit 1-1 to illustrate its commonality with the ISO 9000 series. 

Companies that have no quality system or that have just started implementing a quality system should be aware that the guidelines do not show how to select and implement quality systems. In the latter case, the book will still be useful in helping combine and streamline management systems. In addition, the comparison of different Quality Management systems in Chapter 9 may provide some useful input to Quality Management system selection. 

The intended audience for these guidelines includes those responsible for developing and implementing PSM and ESH management systems which could benefit from incorporation into a Quality Management system. This 

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