What is ISO 20121?
As ISO certification 20121 is an international standard that know as Sustainable Event Management System that can be implemented to any venue or event that your business may hold or to a provider of services within the event supply chain. The standard looks at improving the sustainability of your events venue and/or related activities products and services implementing. ISO certification can bring your business venue or event cost reductions in terms of material consumption waste and energy. It will also help the venue or event strengthen. Its position within the community by way of example enhancing diet biodiversity diversity inclusion accessibility and neighborhood relations while all the while allowing your business to be on the journey to becoming more sustainable being.
What does ISO 20121 certified does?
ISO 20121 certified will enable your business to gain access to new markets give you the edge where sustainability is the key factor this will are your business to become more competitive and provide a long-term return on your investment. There are no restrictions on when you can implement. ISO try to a long it can be implemented anytime the timescale however may differ from business to business based on your context on the size of your business and whether you have any upcoming event planning is crucial to ensure you are certified in time. It can be implemented upon your request or on the request of a client or a key customer
What are the steps for the ISO 20121?
ISO 20121 event sustainability management systems:
- The first very important step is to get commitment from the top the boss or top management as its defined in the standard they need to sign off on it. They need to be committed to the process of improved sustainability performance.
- The next step is to identify and engage your stakeholders they can be internal stakeholders such as your internal event team or external stakeholders then you sound lights travel and transport resources and competencies to be provided.
- The next step here's a little riddle to make this clearer you need to have what you need to do the job and you need to know what you need to know. In order to be able to do it clear as mud identifying issues.
- The next step you obviously need the skills required to be able to identify issues appropriately therefore working through a diagnostic process to identify and understand what those issues are is really important.
Once these above steps are in process, you'll be able to more clearly set objectives and establish policy it's important to understand that as you engage various stakeholders and identify your range of issues that you may need to revisit top management to seek additional commitment. The further you progress along this process your policy may also change issues as you know as part of event production planning and management become apparent at many and sometimes unexpected stages of planning see how this process can become cyclical. Now there is managing your issues for improved performance of course this is the implementation of your sustainability initiatives and plans maintaining communications and documenting very thing that you have in place is also a requirement.
Conclusion:
So finally, we're almost at the end now monitoring and evaluating and undertaking a management review of your performance your process and your achievements is also a requirement. The standard and the clincher embedding continual improvement into your plans so that the next time you implement the standard and process you can manage your issues with further improved performance and greater results. All the steps we've just talked through are laid out here that the cyclical system is in place all management system standards published by ISO come down to four key areas plan do check and act.
