The ISO 50001 standardspecifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an Energy Management System, for the purpose of enabling the organisations of any sector, whether private or public, and of any size, to monitor and reduce energy consumption and improve performances.”
The ISO 50001 Energy management systems – Requirements with guidance for use standard is an voluntary international standard developed by ISO (International Organization for Standardization).
The energy savings is the founding element of the initiatives aimed at increasing the eco-sustainability and the reduction of wastes.
The ISO 50001 standard specifies the requirements that an energy management system must have, requiring that the organisation have a systematic approach for the continuous improvement of their own energy performances, taking into account the legal obligations and other information relative to significant aspects of energy.
An Energy Management System is a systematic approach for monitoring and reducing energy consumption in any type of organisation or business.
The ISO 50001 standard is based on a PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) approach, which amounts to the implementation of correct energy policies and characterised by concrete objectives, aimed at enacting targeted actions and, successively, at the control and verification of the methods of reduction of energy use, with the objective of continuous improvement.
21 August 2018 – The new version of ISO 50001 was published (ISO 50001:2018 “Energy management systems — Requirements with guidance for use”).
The new ISO 5001 also follows the HLS – High Level Structure of the ISO, thereby facilitating the integration of the Energy Management Systems implemented by the organisations with other potential existing management systems; it is therefore organised according to the same 10 chapters that can be found, for example, in the 2015 versions of the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards:
The new regulation on the Energy Management Systems can be applied to any organisation, regardless of his dimensions, products and/or services that it supplies, its complexity or its geographic localisation; moreover, it may be integrated with other management system standards, or can be applied independently.
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