Overview of ISO 14001

Plan Do Check Act Cycle

Plan

what you will Do Do according to your Plan Check to see if you did what you planned Act, change or improve the part of your Plan or Do that did not give you the results you intended

ISO 14001 Requirements

PLAN
4.2 Environmental Policy 4.3.1 Environmental Aspects 4.3.2 Legal and Other Requirements 4.3.3 Objectives, Targets and Programs

ACT
4.6 Management Review

DO
4.4.1 Resources, Roles, Responsibility and Authority 4.4.2 Competence, Training and Awareness 4.4.3 Communication 4.4.4 Documentation 4.4.5 Control of Documents 4.4.6 Operational Control 4.4.7 Emergency Preparedness and Response

CHECK

4.5.1 Monitoring and Measurement 4.5.2 Evaluation of Compliance 4.5.3 Nonconformity, Corrective Action and Preventive Action 4.5.4 Control of Records 4.5.5 Internal Audit

ISO 14001 Environment

The

international standard that specifies a process for controlling and improving an organization's environmental performance ISO 14001 was published by international organization for standardization in 1996 Updated in 2005 ISO provides an outline for an EMS

ISO 14001

It provides a highly effective, globally accepted framework for establishing and continually improving the environmental management ISO 14001:2004 specifies requirements for an environmental management system to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and other requirements to which the organization subscribes, and information about significant environmental aspects.

What does the ISO 14001 standard require of firms?

Develop an environmental policy and public environmental statement Devise set of management practices to achieve environmental goals, including Prevention of pollution Continual environmental improvement Identify all environmental impacts, regulated and unregulated Develop an EMS scope of which may be broad or narrow (cover all facilities and activities or simply a few)

What is an environmental management system (EMS)?

A formalized set of management procedures to improve environmental performance The EMS standards describe systems which will help the companies to achieve the environment performance

Environmental Policy
Establishes

basic guidance for making decisions on environmental issues Provides a public commitment to environmental matters Foundation or basis for an organizations EMS

What is in ISO 14001?

General requirements- identify aspects of your business that impact on the environment Environmental policy- understand those environmental laws that are relevant to your situation Planning implementation and operation- produce objectives for improvement and a management program to achieve them Checking and corrective action- regular reviews for continual improvement Management review- register your company or site to ISO 14001.

ISO 14001 is relevant to every organization

Single site to large multi-national companies High risk companies to low risk service organizations Manufacturing, process and the service industries; including local governments All industry sectors including public and private sectors Original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers