ISO14001 environmental management system certification is developed by the international Organization for Standardization ISO, ISO14000 series standards are environmental management system standards, and quality management system, occupational health and safety management system, known as the three systems.

The characteristics of ISO14001 environmental factors are throughout the whole process of environmental management, which is the most basic element of system management and the most core element. The core task of the implementation of ISO14001 is to fully identify the environmental factors existing in the organization's activities, products and services, and use appropriate methods to evaluate and determine important environmental factors, and finally achieve environmental performance through the control of important environmental factors.

Therefore, determining environmental factors is a very important link in the process of establishing ISO14001 environmental management system, and it is the basis for enterprises to establish and maintain the long-term effective operation of ISO14001 environmental management system.