Certifications
ISO 50001-Energy Management System
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About ISO 50001-Energy Management System
Energy is a very critical element for every organizations on its daily operations which has the major. The ISO 50001 Energy Management Standard will provide public and private sector organizations with management strategies to increase energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve energy performance. The standard is intended to provide organizations with a recognized framework for integrating energy performance into their management practices. Multinational organizations will have access to a single, harmonized standard for implementation across the organization with a logical and consistent methodology for identifying and implementing improvements.
By adopting the ISO 50001 standards, the organization will be benefited on maximizing the potential opportunities and implement changes on the daily operational procedures. Typically, the Energy Management Systems combines the best practices on project management, energy monitoring, and energy awareness, along with an energy policy that governs an approach towards energy use and performance. The approach will benefit the organization on enabling significant energy savings that must be continually monitored to resolve the energy waste and reduce the anomalies.
Main Highlights
The Energy Management System is an internationally recognized standard which is focused on implementing the strategic and systematic proven energy and energy cost savings benefits management system.
The ISO 50001 does not only returns the limited benefits instead it also creates additional compensations for the organization.
The focus of an ISO 50001 standards Energy Management System is to improve the management processes, practices and procedures that can control the organizations functions and activities.
Brief about the ISO standard
Adapted from the ISO standard: ISO 50001:2011
The international standard will enable the organizations to improve and establish the current systems and practices, continually improve the energy performance including the energy efficiency and consumption. It is designed to lead on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions, energy costs, and any other related environmental impacts. The ISO 50001 is applicable to all types and sizes of organizations, sectors or industries, cultural or social conditions and irrespective of locations.
The Energy Management System specifies requirements for the organization to develop and successfully implement an energy policy, on establishing the energy objectives, targets and action plans. This will enable the organization to achieve and maintain its policy commitment, perform an action wherever necessary to continuously improve its energy performance. It will also provide the conformities
It enables the organizations to establish the systems and processes required in improving the energy efficiency, use, intensity and consumption. An ISO 50001-based EnMS reduces the energy costs, environmental impacts and improves profitability. It demonstrates that the organization have implemented the environmental energy management systems and focused on the continual improvement on their energy conservation. It will help the organization to develop a policy, settle an energy efficiency targets and objectives and review the effectiveness of the energy policy. The standard boosts the competitiveness and reduces the vulnerability of the organization with respect to the energy price fluctuation and availability of energy. It helps the organization to handle and control related energy risks concerning to any possible impacts in the most efficient and effective methods. It also allows the organization on establishing a better use of energy consuming assets on identifying potentials to reduce the maintenance costing and it can also expand the capacity.
BAS 4P methodology is the way of standardizing the client process and procedure in a systematic way. The 4P enables BAS and client to go through a series of activities that leads to certifications. The 4P methodology deeply analyze and reviews the process and procedure within the organization and improves overall performance of the organization and finally get certified.
BAS implements the following activities.
PREPARE
Understand the context
- Capture and review business goals to understand the context and client.
- Determine goals of the assessment of the client by questionnaire, interviews etc.
- Identify key stakeholders.
- Determine the scope (functional areas, geographical coverage etc) and timeline.
- Finalize scope, timeline and resource needs.
- Confirm approach and seek client commitment.
- Mobilize the Assessment project team.
- Schedule interviews.
- Hold a kick-off meeting.
PERFORM
Gather Data
- Gather and Analyze/Review existing documentation, portals, past audit reports, forms, metrics, data etc and understand how the operations is compliance with standards.
- Conduct interviews and workshops.
- Document survey results and preliminary ratings if any.
- Document preliminary findings.
- Assess environment and, gaining evidentiary support from interviews and documents.
- Identify key issues and challenges and seek agreements from stakeholders
- Implement and improve process and procedures
PRESENT
Develop Recommendations
- Identify opportunities to overcome identified issues and/or reach maturity levels.
- Prioritize alternatives.
- Develop recommendations and near-term timeline.
- Prepare final report.
- Preview final report with stakeholders and update as required.
- Present final report.
PURSUE
Continual Improvement
- Follow up with the organization and analyze the how the organization is compliance with the standards
- Check with the organization that the standards are being implemented and maintained.
- Evaluate the continual fulfillment and improvement of all the required and relevant documents.
Certification Details
BAS is a versatile ISO certification body, with various industrial expertise and strong exposures in the field of Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental, Service Management and Information Security Management. We provide reliable services in the UK, Middle East, India and Other countries.
We at BAS with our veteran assessors provide you with certification which provides value for your management system. Many clients around the world have greatly benefited through our exemplary service.
The following are the steps in this phase we do as part of certification
Contract signature
BAS representative sends out an application which is a questionnaire to the organization which is the applicant for the Certification.
Once BAS receives the filled in application, the BAS representative sends an official quote to the applicant for approval.
Pre-audit (optional):
Gap analysis and diagnosis of your systems current position against requirements of the standard - A pre-certification audit is a high level evaluation indicating where your company currently stands in compliance with specific standards before the main certification audit.
Audit Stage 1- Initial Visit: to verify the establishment and implementation of the basic structure of your Management System
BAS will carry out a Document review Assessment of the client’s Management System according to the requirements of Standard in order to establish to what extent the System addresses the requirements of the standard and if a subsequent Initial Assessment for Accredited Certificate is likely to result in successful certification at an early stage, by which usually companies take the necessary corrective/preventive actions as appropriate and prior to the Initial Assessment. The Pre-audit should not be considered as a Consultancy Service
Audit Stage 2 - Certification audit (certificate issued after successful certification audit)
The principal purpose of the Initial Assessment is to audit the Company’s Management Systems for compliance with the the standard. Please note that Initial Assessment is the obligatory service. In this phase if there are any opportunities for improvements identified BAS auditors would report them in the interest of the organization.
Surveillance audits to follow the continual improvement
It is also an obligatory service; BAS will perform Surveillance Visit approximately after every year i.e. a total of 3 Surveillance Visits will be performed every year during the 3 years validation period of the Certificate. Such routine surveillance Visits are performed to ensure the continuous compliance of your Management System to the requirements of Standards.
Re-certification after 3 years through full audit or continual assessment.
What we do?
- BAS can assist your organization to acquire any relevant ISO certifications in UAE which is well-known internationally. It will generate additional business opportunities, exhibit the organizations compliance and commitment to the best-practices in any industries in order to be more competitive in today’s market.
- We at BAS with our veteran assessors provide you with certification which provides value for your management system. Many clients around the world have greatly benefited through our exemplary service.
- When you choose BAS as your certification partner you stand to gain monetarily in your business by our straight forward assessment. The overall aim of certification is to give confidence to all parties that a management system fulfills specified requirements. The value of certification is the degree of public confidence and trust that is established by an Impartial and competent assessment by a third party.
- With BAS, you will have the capability to deliver on the promises you make – this helps you to enhance your reputation, creates confidence in your capabilities, substantiates claims and differentiates your organization;
- With BAS, Obtains the full tangible benefits and value of your management systems – this helps you to link assessment system benefits to financial performance or improvements in effectiveness and efficiency that help drive your business forward in measurable and verifiable ways; and develops your capability to better manage a range of non-financial risks.
- As an integral part of this process, BAS will evaluate the relevance of the quality objectives against the analysis of stakeholder expectations and strategic goals of the company. We will assess the capability of the management system in controlling the defined processes. We will assess the effectiveness of the management decision making in respect to this data and, on the basis of this assessment, we will help senior management identify any changes required to support continual improvement.
- Providing more opportunities for improvements than just performing a compliance audit against the standards requirements.
- Understand the local culture and working patterns of the clients will facilitate better communication and understanding between BAS and the clients.
- BAS possesses resources who have the knowledge and skills of multiple standards such as ISO 20000, ISO 27001, SKEA for eg., in Abu Dhabi for Business Excellence programs etc.,. This greatly helps the clients to have better inputs as the standards can be applied in an integrated way and the auditors can provide a holistic feedback.
- BAS has offices around the world and the auditors have access to the knowledge from all around the global parts which will be helpful to the clients as they can have a better understanding and more practical suggestions from BAS auditors.
- BAS location advantage within the Emirates on the following: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Al Ain, Sharja, Ajman, Ras Al Kaimah and Fujairah (We have successfully completed many and different projects locally and also internationally).
- BAS strongly promotes and implements the facilitations on the relevant Management System not only for the sake of certification but to really make a difference in the processes and procedures that will be implemented throughout any organization.
- BAS consist of some project members which are also EFQM International Assessors this can add value to the assignment as Abu Dhabi government is highly recommending Organizational Excellence program across Abu Dhabi Emirate (and UAE).
