ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems

ISO 50001 helps organizations reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions and energy costs.

More than ever, industry is recognizing that the management of energy is not only crucial to the environment as a whole, but crucial to the sustainability of their business. The Standard enables organizations to follow a systematic approach in achieving continual improvement of energy performance, including energy efficiency, use and consumption.

Today’s environment is filled with intense scrutiny but being competitive means never standing still.

SAI Global helps you see a way forward so you can advance confidently.

Improve Energy Performance

Reduce energy costs by improving energy use, consumption, intensity and efficiency.

Meet Compliance Requirements

Demonstrate your commitment to meeting carbon emission and climate change mandates.

Sustainable Energy Practices

Align with global best practice to improve management of operational processes, reducing GHG emissions and resource waste.  

What Is It?

ISO 50001:2018 brings a systematic approach to planning, implementing, maintaining and improving an energy management system.

Organizations of all types, from small family businesses to large corporations and government institutions, can benefit from energy and cost efficiencies.ISO 50001:2018 has been updated to follow the same structure, Annex-SL, as other ISO management systems Standards, allowing it to easily integrate with existing quality and environmental management systems.The purpose of this standard is to continually improve energy performance, including energy efficiency, energy use and energy consumption.
Scope

ISO 50001 describes a systematic approach to enable organizations to continually improve energy performance and energy management.

Context of the Organization

The organization must understand the internal and external issues that can affect, either positive or negative, energy performance and the energy management system.

Leadership

To ensure success, top management must demonstrate their commitment to the management system and develop an energy policy that the organization must follow.

Planning

Planning must address the organizations risks and opportunities based off its context, desired energy outputs and targets and the measures needed to monitor and achieve these objectives.

Support

The organization must support the management systems with the right people, skills, technology, data infrastructure and financial resources.

Operation

The organizations processes should be planned, implemented and controlled, ensuring facilities, equipment and systems are designed with the goal of improvement.

Performance Evaluation

The organization must be able to demonstrate and verify that it has achieved its energy performance targets and objectives through internal audits and management reviews.

Improvement

The organization must implement an energy performance improvement process and correct nonconforming processes.

Next Steps

We can help your organization to implement or optimize ISO 50001.

Start
Implement
  • Contact SAI Global to discuss requirements, timeframes and costs
  • Perform an optional pre-assessment
  • Perform a gap analysis
    Certify
    • Undertake a Stage 1 audit
    • Complete a detailed Stage 2 audit
    • Upon successful certification, display the ‘Five Ticks’ StandardsMark™
      Maintain
      • Conduct annual Surveillance Audits
      • Recertify to ISO 50001 every three years
      • Establish a continual improvement culture
        Optimize
        • Market for brand and promotional benefits
        • Optimize commercial teams
        • Ensure shareholder and stakeholder awareness
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