PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS SEEN IN IZMIR INDUSTRY FOR TRANSITION TO ISO 14001 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AS A CLEAN PRODUCTION TOOL
Today the consciousness that human-being and environment are inseperable from each other has become widespread and also has included the subjects like satisfaction of customers and environmental factors. The bases of environmental factors are environmental problems and pollution. Nowadays, with the given attentions on pollution, in managements the environmental factor/concept has become a current issue. The managements, at every phase of industrial doings that contains the environment, use the Environmental Management Systems (EMS). These systems also have some economical benefits like increasing the quality of the environment/nature and decreasing the pollution.In 1996, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was released an international certificate which as a voluntary guideline for the creation of.Environmental Management System These international standards and its guide are known as ISO 14000 series. defining standard of series is a ISO 14001 standard . ISO 14001 has a leadin role in EMS design and implementation which defines the legal and other requirements of the organization, the environmental policy of the organization, practices of the organization, This work has been made to demonstrate what firms understand the ISO 14001 certification, the expectations of the process, the realization rate expectations firms awarded ISO 14001 certification engaged in the production of various sizes in İzmir.

Keywords
Environment, Environmental Management Systems, ISO 14001 standard, İzmir.