17 Elements Of Iso 14002-v1 4ek70

17 elements of ISO 14001 that are required to be met by organizations seeking formal recognition for their EMS. ISO 14001 requirements are as follows: 1 An environmental policy ed by senior management; The identification of environmental aspects and impacts, and the identification of significant 2 environmental impacts that the organization may cause; 3 Identification of environmental compliance requirements; 4 The development of objectives and targets, and their environmental management programs; 5 Defined resources, roles, responsibilities and authorities for environmental management; 6 The development of competence, training and awareness procedures; 7 A communication process of the EMS to all stakeholders and interested parties; 8 The development of EMS documentation as required by the standard; 9 The development of document control procedures; 10 The development of operational control procedures; 11 The development of emergency preparedness and response procedures; The development of procedures to monitor and measure operations that can have significant 12 impact to the environment; 13 An evaluation of compliance procedure; Procedures developed for the management of non-conformance, corrective and preventative 14 actions; 15 The development of a records management procedure; 16 A program for completing internal EMS audits and corrective actions; and 17 The development of procedures for management review by senior management.

Continuous improvement :By design the EMS and environmental performance run in a continuous improvement cycle outlined in the diagram

The first item on your ISO 14001 checklist should be to ensure senior management are committed to and involved with its development, implementation and management. Human, financial and physical resources need to be identified. Ongoing resources need to be allocated. Responsibilities need to be assigned and agreed to at this stage. The organization’ EMS scope will need to be defined i.e. the identification of the products, services and activities it covers and anything that is excluded. An initial environmental review should be completed in accordance with AS/NZS ISO 14015 Environmental management – Environmental assessment of sites and organizations (EASO) and HB 206 Initial Environmental Review (handbook). The amount of detail required should be assessed prior to its commissioning. Current environmental management activities and procedures should be integrated into the ISO 14001 EMS. These current activities and procedures should be identified during the initial environmental review stage and EMS gap analysis. Organizations should plan for the systematic development and implementation of the elements of the EMS. Plans need to include implementation requirements, education and training requirements, internal audits and time to close out any actions, time to run the system (records are collected to demonstrate implementation) and demonstration of continuous improvement. This needs to be completed prior to ISO 14001 certification. ISO 14001 should be developed in conjunction with ISO 14004 Environmental management systems – General guidelines on principles, systems and techniques. ISO 14004 provides further guidelines for the elements of an EMS and its implementation. Organizations should identify whether they have the skills and resources to develop an ISO 14001 EMS internally or whether they should outsource its development. Often systems developed can be more complicated than they need to be, somewhat confusing and difficult to manage, as well as, not actually reducing environmental risk and improving performance. Engaging a Consultant should overcome this but not all Consultants have equal experience and qualifications, and unfortunately it's still quite common for Consultants to produce substandard EMSs. Engaging an Environmental Consultant which specializes in environmental risk management and EMSs as well as having adequate qualifications and experience could be considered.

Ref: http://www.iso14001.com.au/iso-14001-requirements.html (7 April -2014)