ASQ/ANSI/ISO 14004:2016为组织建立、实施、维护和改进稳健、可信和可靠的环境管理体系提供了指导。所提供的指导旨在帮助一个组织以系统的方式管理其环境责任，为可持续性的环境支柱做出贡献。本国际标准有助于组织实现其环境管理体系的预期结果，该体系为环境、组织自身和相关方提供价值。根据组织的环境政策，环境管理体系的预期结果包括: 提高环境绩效；履行合规义务；实现环境目标。本国际标准中的指南可以帮助组织提高其环境绩效，并使环境管理体系的要素能够整合到其核心业务流程中。注:虽然环境管理体系无意管理职业健康和安全问题，但当组织寻求实施综合环境和职业健康和安全管理体系时，这些问题可以包括在内。ASQ/ANSI/ISO 14004:2016适用于任何组织，无论其规模、类型和性质如何，并适用于其活动、产品和服务的环境方面，考虑到生命周期的角度，该组织确定其可以控制或影响这些活动、产品和服务。 本国际标准中的指南可全部或部分用于系统地改进环境管理。它提供了对概念和要求的额外解释。虽然本国际标准中的指南与ISO 14001环境管理体系模型一致，但其目的并非解释ISO 14001的要求。

ASQ/ANSI/ISO 14004:2016 provides guidance for an organization on the establishment, implementation, maintenance and improvement of a robust, credible and reliable environmental management system. The guidance provided is intended for an organization seeking to manage its environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability.This International Standard helps an organization achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system, which provides value for the environment, the organization itself and interested parties. Consistent with the organization's environmental policy, the intended outcomes of an environmental management system include:enhancement of environmental performance;fulfilment of compliance obligations;achievement of environmental objectives.The guidance in this International Standard can help an organization to enhance its environmental performance, and enables the elements of the environmental management system to be integrated into its core business process.NOTE While the environmental management system is not intended to manage occupational health and safety issues, these can be included when an organization seeks to implement an integrated environmental and occupational health and safety management system.ASQ/ANSI/ISO 14004:2016 is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, and applies to the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that the organization determines it can either control or influence, considering a life cycle perspective.The guidance in this International Standard can be used in whole or in part to systematically improve environmental management. It serves to provide additional explanation of the concepts and requirements.While the guidance in this International Standard is consistent with the ISO 14001 environmental management system model, it is not intended to provide interpretations of the requirements of ISO 14001.